XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/26/2023 6:14 PM, micky wrote:   
   > In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:52:07 -0700, Bob F   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 7/26/2023 5:43 PM, micky wrote:   
   >>> In rec.autos.tech, on Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:52:32 -0400, retired1   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 7/26/23 12:26 PM, Oscar Mayer wrote:   
   >>>>> Apparently Toyota doesn't make the glass anymore.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The front passenger side door glass is called "green".   
   >>>>> The bonded rear quarter glass is called "gray" (no antenna).   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 68101-35150 Right (passenger side) front door glass (green)   
   >>>>> 62740-35010 Left (driver side) quarter glass, no antenna (gray)   
   >>>>> Someone smashed both windows to steal stuff inside.   
   >>>   
   >>> That was pretty thoughtless.  One window should have been enough.   
   >>   
   >> I had a friend that had his radio stolen. They broke the drivers side   
   >> window to get in. A week later someone broke in through the passenger   
   >> side window. He was really pissed, since he still had not replaced the   
   >> drivers window.   
   >   
   > Sort of related.  First poster on NextDoor says someone is driving  his   
   > car every night, maybe a friend of his son.  Another suggests he's using   
   > it to drive for Uber. Then this woman writes:   
   >   
   > Wow!  Something similar happened to me years ago.  Someone would get   
   > into my car at night.  I have a Plymouth Sundance which was also known   
   > as the Dodge Shadow.  There was no street parking where I lived, so you   
   > had to pay to park in a city owned parking lot and every morning, I   
   > would come out to my car and all of the windows would be rolled down!   
   > It was the strangest thing.  It wasn’t me and it wasn’t an electrical   
   > malfunction since you had to manually crank the windows down.  I believe   
   > I was about 21 or 22 when this happened.  I was scared to even get in   
   > the car.  My sister would come with me every morning so we could walk   
   > around the car to make sure no one was hiding inside.  I ended up taping   
   > a note to the steering wheel.  I wrote that “this was my first car and   
   > the first car for my family and that we needed it.  I can’t stop you   
   > from getting inside but can you please stop leaving the windows down in   
   > all types of weather because I need this car to take care of my family.”   
   > Who ever was doing it, took the note and stole my emergency tool kit   
   > from the trunk; but they never messed with my car again…to my   
   > knowledge.??.  So long story short, maybe a note will do the trick?   
      
   I talked to a guy once that told me about how he would lock his   
   motorcycle to a tree with a heavy chain because of lots of thefts in the   
   area. He came out one morning and found the motorcycle locked to a   
   different tree, with a note saying "If we want it, we'll take it".   
      
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