Who in heavens steals valve caps off a car?

H3llR4iser

Went to pick up some groceries last evening, walked back to the car and noticed a missing valve cap; Thought I must have not screwed it in back in properly and lost it...until I realized all four were missing. They were there last Saturday when I last checked the pressures - not sure at which point they have disappeared.

Now, they weren't the standard black but silver/grey like the alloys and hex shaped; Still, who in heavens goes around looking at valve caps on cars with the intent of nicking some? There must be some pretty sad people around.

To the guy/girl driving around in their "souped-up" grocery getter with a Halford's fartcan and my valve caps on: I hope you get diarrhea, so that you need to spend 7 Euro for a box of Imodium. That would have bought you 3 sets of these valve caps, and left you with an Euro change.

dar83

Kids for their bikes. This has always been the way really.

Also the shinier the better I guess, so if yours weren't standard, then they'd be more desirable.

bazz26

As said, more than likely kids.

irish gent

Mine was stolen before. I got them off the eBay site 10 euros I paid.
Gone within a month I just put on the plastic ones now.

rex-x

They did you a favour if anything, once they rust in place there is no getting them off

mrty

I'd say some miserable git, or more likely kids for their bikes. I'm ashamed to say i did it once for my bmx when i was a child.

H3llR4iser

rex-x wrote: »

They did you a favour if anything, once they rust in place there is no getting them off

They were plastic, no rust possible:D. Worth exactly 2 euro in a car accessory shop (in Italy). I still find it absurd, you really really really have to go look for them. Kids or not, diarrhea is still in order!

Ps. when I was a child, bikes had a fairly different valve that could not accommodate caps from a car...I guess it was a sound idea.

Miscreant

This happened to me over 2 years ago as well. Washed the car on a Saturday morning and the valve caps were there when cleaning the wheels. Went to Cork for the day with a friend (in his motor) to buy a car and came back on Saturday night. Decided to check my tyre pressures before it got too dark and lo and behold the valve caps were gone!!! Cue much cursing and swearing at the thoughts of a little toe rag having trespassed into my garden and unscrewed all 4 of the valve caps from the car in broad daylight while the missus was in the house! I was not impressed....
Since then, I have not bothered even buying a cheapo €2 set from anywhere as it seems that kids on bikes are like Magpies and will nick anything shiny to put on to their own bikes. At least they didn't damage the car but I am still cut up about it after over 2 years
You could try getting a set of locking ones to stop this from happening again. They usually have a grub screw in them and come with a small Allen key to remove them. Can be a bit of a pain when at a petrol station and you want to put air in the tyres but forgot the Allen key though :P

Oh, someone also nicked the towing eye cover from my bumper when I was in an Aldi in Galway once... WHO DOES THAT????!!!! Cost me €12 to get a replacement from Volvo.

dgt

Probably childers that stole them. I never bother with them as I've seen too many brass ones seize

If this was happening regularly I'd be rubbing cats sh*te on them when parking up

Gazzmonkey

dgt wrote: »

Probably childers that stole them. I never bother with them as I've seen too many brass ones seize

If this was happening regularly I'd be rubbing cats sh*te on them when parking up

lol at using cat ****e, great idea

goz83

Happened me a few times. I caught the little ****es once, which was a nice macho moment as I frightened the bejaysus outa them. The ones with the grub screws are a bad idea, because they can damage the thread, especially if the kids try steal them. I bought a set that you need a special key to open them, because the outer rim just spins on the valve if you try open it. One afternoon I came out to the car and there was a toothpick stuck in the valve keyhole. I laughed, because I knew some little scrote had tried and failed miserably.

New Valve Caps (now on more than a year)
Goz 1
Scrote 0

billie1b

Kids, they even tried to take mine whilst I was in the car at the time, little feckers. Saying that, when I was in school 20 years ago, we used to take the Mercedes and BMW signs and wear them around our necks with a shoe lace, how sad we were

Wedgie

I once had one rear light cluster, bulbs and all, taken from outside my job in the middle of the day. I would have only been parked there for fourty minutes at most.
I guess that someone needed one for their Liteace.

ofcork

Ive had mine taken in ones and twos at various times also the alloy centre caps once.