Haha yes it kinda cracked me up that he thought all of those Jeep tires were stolen….. obviously the Ram ones were stolen, but how was he not able to put 2 and 2 together with the Jeep tires….. 🤦♂️
I'm a retired Police Officer. Unfortunately this is fairly common at dealerships. Even if the Police catch the thieves, the court just gives them probation or 30 days in the County Jail. Then they are out and back at it again. They say jails are too full, and thats the reason the don't give jail sentences to these scumbags.
Yeah, but when I worked in a dealership they float from lot to lot as they patrol many different manufacturers' car lots. They tend to not stay in one area too long, and things happen.
sucks...makes my blood boil when I see shit like this. My insurance went up 40% last year because my '23 Sierra 2500 HD Denali was deemed "high risk" for theft...
@@Frick-l4c And there you have it. The thieves win again. Just adjust your life because of others. If the Vikings were around when this kind of thing happened, it would not happen for too long...
They use a regular jack with a block on it usually low profile jack and kick it off the jack in the end did you see the tire marks and where the vehicle landed?
Don’t feel bad. Most of the time when stuff like that happens it’s an inside job. To go thru all that trouble and coordination you gotta have knowledge to successfully do that.
$5,000 for STOCK wheels and tires $100,000 for a $30,000 truck is why this is happening over inflated prices after you shut down the world is a gimmick and a joke
As a M.B dealership tech. I recommend wheel locks. Every once in a while I had to drill out wheel locks. It wasn't a easy job. Sometimes it took 6 hours and several drill bits to do 4 wheel locks. The dealership can and should Install wheel locks and just charge $120.00 dollars xtra. I would pay for them as a customer. The thrives aren't going to hang out and drill out wheel locks. That had to have been a big operation. 5 to 10 guys. With a lot of pickup trucks, and a lot of noise
Most folks I know have trouble coming up with 40k for a fairly base full sized pickup. At 100k plus? This one was probably not going anywhere unless someone who owned expensive toys or owned a shop dealing with such toys or a construction company owner needed a truck to haul stuff to his sites
They need to get security personnel at night. Update cameras. I mean damn, if you get hit once or even twice you should be taking measures to combat the issue not just being complacent.
I work in the security field. What it comes down to for us is finding people who want to work those jobs. Flat out I can’t find people worth a spit to do it. I get a good one every so often but I gotta go through 3 or 4 who absolutely shouldn’t be there. Overnight shifts are especially bad cause I’ve caught more than a few sleeping on the job. There’s so many rules and ridiculous insurance costs for arming guards that it’s almost not worth if for what you have to charge per hour to make your costs up. Worse still was the consolidation in the industry when Allied Universal moved to buy out G4S. Most businesses just go with cameras to save money but I do agree a human presence is a much bigger deterrent
When I was younger I would steal from dealerships that had security guards and I would just wait for them to leave. Some nights he was sick and did not show up so that made it easier@@matthewcaughey8898
Happened to my mother's Buick, only took two tires on the street side. Nice enough to put piece of wood underneath in the middle that bent the body too.
I doubt the dealer is gonna put a claim in for that it’s not worth it I know these Dodge dealers are hurting for money but still pay somebody 16 $17 an hour to drive around in a golf cart losing $5000 in rims and tires The owner of the dealership might have to cut back on one of his weekend trips to Lake Havasu on his million dollar speedboat
That was my thought. A dealer can a spare used car and install some security lights and a magnetic "Security" door sticker. The person they hire doesn't need to be professional security, just someone to sit in the car near the entrance, drive around occasionally, and call the cops if they notice something. Seems like such a simple solution.
Right when someone steals yes we all do pay in the long run because the company as Walmart just SAYING they will pass the bill to us anthor WORDS prices will go up a little understandable
🤣🤣thieves don't care what you "believe", "where you live" or that some rich cable tv host told you "it only happens over there " where they've never been......the thieves love that actually coz it makes people complacent and thus easy to steal from.
The insurance company would leave you homeless and sell you entire family for an extra dollar if they could the answer to this is not bootlicking corrupt dealerships (u really think someone at the dealership doesn’t know something?) and corrupt insurance company’s it has to be fought in the courts with price fixing on policies. your rates will increase till they do no matter what Utopia you envision.
This is why I moved as far away from these garbage dump cities and towns, 6 miles back a dirt road, no street lights, no traffic, no nosey neighbors, peaceful and quiet and no homeless because of the bears and cougars and coyotes. It's paradise. Get your Family as far away from these garbage dump cities as possible and you will thank me. Open air prisons.
Don't tell them that. let them stay in the cities. I live in the same rural setting in northern Arizona and in the past two years the population went from 500 to about 1100 people. Mostly people from California and believe me, they bring their bull$hit with them.
The dealership pays high premiums for lot insurance. And I bet if you spoke to them about why they don't hire private security, etc, etc.... and if they're honest... they'd say it's cheaper to just pay insurance, instead of having security detail.
My guess is that area probably has criminal-friendly laws, D.A.s, judges, etc. Also, that car dealer needs to not be cheaping out on security including cameras, etc.
@@hellkitty1014 Rural and the state overall, kinda. If you have ever been in their larger cities, Salt Lake, it's pretty much the common chithole feel of any large city, not everywhere of course but it's palatable. It's not all Mormons in covered wagons and ankle length dresses.
@@GreggWalken-xd3qv ..what does a guy who has no legislative power or decision making position in the Utah legislature ,judiciary or government have to do with there being thieves in Utah???
I wonder if locking lug nuts would make a difference. Sometimes that's enough to deter a thief because they have to break a lock. Not sure it would help in this case though. But it might. The big question is, will the manufacturer be willing to start putting locking lug nuts on their vehicles from the get-go?
If this continues to happen at Larry miller in sandy Utah, you have a serious issue at the dealership. If I was the insurance company, I would seriously be looking at security measures or lackthereof at this dealership. I can only imagine how their sales and service department works if you keep allowing this to happen and jacking insurance rates for rest of us. Definitely not a dealership I will consider buying from.
@@Marklin15 I have a set that doesn't damage the wheel or stud. Wheel locks don't stop theft, they merely make it a little harder in hopes the thieves move on to an easier target.
That happened down the road from me in Texas a about a few years ago . They took about 70 sets of dodge wheels in one night. Then they hit the chevy dealership.
Well on the bright side maybe the dealer will give a discount so we can get good tires… actually it’s not a night edition so no need it comes with better tires
The dealerships often remove the spare tires themselves and install them when the vehicle is sold. This reduces the theft of the spare tires by the thieves.
Back in my day Security guards were a significant deterrent! Also missing these days is the threat of getting shot over grand theft. Better laws make better times. ;-)
The first thing I advise is some tough locking lug nuts. Preferably in a weird pattern and one not widely available. I had custom wheels and McGuard gorilla guard spline drive lug nuts on my one car for years. Nobody ever got them off and I had several try. They moved away from locking lug nuts over the years but if it’s going to be a problem then maybe dealers need to start using them again. They should be standard on an external spare tire to discourage theft
Happens all the time here in MD even in the so called “nice” areas. The cops get called but they always get there too late (buddy is a police officer) happens very frequently.
Someone stole 6 wheels and tires off of our 26' Ryder box truck last week at work. It was one guy with a jack and a 24v snap on cordless impact gun. That's alot of work because those are really heavy to pickup and put in a van by yourself. We saw him on camera the next day. Pretty ballsy
Maybe the dealership could like hire those people that roam around their lots during non-business hours to act as a deterrent to thieves? Oh yeah, pay some security guards with all that dealer mark-up and extra "required" fees they charge.
I just purchased a new Jeep Wrangler last November and it came with wheel locks. When I asked the sales manager about this, he said that the dealer puts wheel locks on all of their new vehicles. They must of had some bad experiences also. I have a brother in law who used to work in auto body repair. He once worked for a shop that would let a vicious Rotti roam the premises at will during the night time. They never had a problem with theft or break-ins.
This reminds me of the time when my brother was a student in Berkeley Ca and he came out one morning to find his car wheels gone and his car sitting on blocks of wood. The wheels were just regular wheels, nothing too special about them.
Time to spend some money on a security team for the after hours part of the day, as well as limiting ways to access the lot, particularly in the way of corners of the property. Same goes for any overflow storage yards being secured around the clock. Those stolen wheel and tire expenses add up, real quick.
If that keeps up, I wouldn't be surprised if some insurance companies start changing coverage policies, prices, or even getting out of the game, leaving the dealerships to figure it out.
I promise you that was a repot and the owner returned it but took the aftermarket wheels and tires off of it. Most likely sold the OEM wheels and tires to get the new ones.
Security guards are actually not all that expensive. Maybe $20/hr or so for someone trained. But honestly, being a car dealer, they could just throw some security lights on a white car or truck and a magnetic security sticker and hire anybody to do it. All they really need is someone to sit in a truck and call the cops if they see anything. Even a screw-up nephew or son-in-law can do that. 😁
This is happening every where even in Brooklyn NY where I live, last week I saw a brand new Honda Civic on bricks with no wheels. It doesn't matter if you live in a nice or bad environment it's going on all over!🤔🤔🤔
I see this from time to time here and it always hurts me, but never a vehicle of this size. Now the spare tires taken from the back of the Jeeps I have never seen or even heard of.
MOST of the Wrangler spare tires are taken off by the dealership and put either in storage or inside the vehicle. This is done in my area as well because of theft. You should have looked inside those Wranglers to see if they were inside the back!!!
