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gordonbee
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Stolen Wheel

Post by gordonbee » Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:17 pm

My wife returned to her Forrester this after noon to find the front wheel missing and a bucket holding the car up, even though you could clearly see a child seat in the car.

Nobody in the Wilsons car park in Bondi Junction saw a thing. They did leave four of the wheel nuts and by proping the car up with a steel bucket, avoided any damage to the car, how nice of them.

How would I get one new wheel, it's the one with the circle design and that's not me trying to be funny...honestly.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Gordon

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Post by phillatdarwin » Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:26 pm

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Post by d_generate » Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:50 am

Just look at it this way, you haven't lost a wheel - you've gained a bucket.





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Post by sven '2' » Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:56 am

gordonbee wrote:My wife returned to her Forrester this after noon to find the front wheel missing and a bucket holding the car up, even though you could clearly see a child seat in the car.

Nobody in the Wilsons car park in Bondi Junction saw a thing. They did leave four of the wheel nuts and by proping the car up with a steel bucket, avoided any damage to the car, how nice of them.

How would I get one new wheel, it's the one with the circle design and that's not me trying to be funny...honestly.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Gordon
Is A LOT faith in a steel bucket!

Wreckers, Gumtree, here, ebay, Subaru (if you lots of cash lying around!).

Wreckers would be better option - more likely to have a car with incomplete sets as a result of the crash
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Post by RSR 555 » Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:55 am

Who does this shit ?? :twisted: I bet someone saw it but just thought it was someone changing their flat tyre :???:

I'd tell your insurance people.. they will be able to replace it for you and I'd recommend you buy (or get the insurance to pay for them) a set of lock nuts so it doesn't happen again :)
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Post by AndrewT » Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:33 am

There is a place in WA called "Mr Mag". They specialise in stocking huge amounts of secondhand wheels and selling incomplete sets and individual wheels. Long shot but might be worth sending them a photo of one of yours and seeing if they have one. It's cheap to freight wheels around Australia.

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Post by coupe » Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:02 pm

Hey . You know a bucket like that just doesnt come around every day. You scored well lol.
Just kiddn , i hope Karma smackes them back.
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