There is an old story that gets passed around the gun ranges I frequent. I’m sure it is an old wives tale but the story goes like this:

If you had called the police saying you had found the perp that stole your car and was beating the living crap out of him, they would send 5 patrol cars and an ambulance.

I live in Vegas and had a pickup truck stolen. Police wouldn’t come file a report because it was “not an emergency”. I went to the police department and filed a report immediately. Made several follow up calls, no one could tell me anything. 7 days later I get a little card in the mail from a local tow yard, they…

I totally get why this guy did this! Getting your car stolen and the cops acting like just don’t care.

There’s a lot of horror stories involving stolen vehicles and police in these comments, so allow me to share my bittersweet experience.

5 years ago my pickup truck was stolen in Ontario. Called the cops right away, filed a report, and they said they would get back to me. Called insurance and filed a report. 2 days later call the cops, no new info. A week later, call the cops, no new info. Cop says they won’t even look for it. I cave them two leads,…

Happens everywhere; I found my 16V Golf Gti parked in the street after it had been stolen. Hotfooted it to local police station where I was told that they had no vehicles to dispatch. I eventually got a lone cop who was sunning himself outside, interested and drove him back to where my car was parked, just as the…

it’s the ‘little’ things.(cars aren’t little, but finding them can be). not being able to trust the cops to track down things like a car when they know who did it is really what i feel starts to undermine our trust in general of police. and once it starts, it’s hard to stop.

Cops are utterly worthless when it comes to car theft. Worthless. I had 2 cars stolen in California, 1 car broken into, and the cops are basically like “whatever...we’ll see what turns up but it happens all the time.”

The “known to police” thing boggles my mind.

The cops sound a lot like they do here in Canada.

Jesus Christ. How worthless of a human being do you have to be to want to steal someone else’s hard earned property and then when you are too inept to use it yourself you have to kill an innocent person?

$550 and it runs? hmmm... i know exactly what to do with this

I’m upset that the dealership and manufacturer have created a monopoly and are therefore fixing prices. Speedo shops could be licensed/bonded if they are not already, and that would address the honesty problem.

2007 Wrangler Unlimited 4 door, aka pre-Pentastar, in a fantastic “Kermit the Frog” green (in hindsight, the most redeeming quality about the car besides the stereo).

My 93 Mazda RX7 FD3S Touring model in Montego Blue, all stock. (not the actual picture below, but looked just like it.)

Honda Ridgeline. We bought it to replace a Volvo S60 to have something that could haul gear for camping, my mountain bikes etc... it looked like a great option. The trunk in the bed, comfortable inside, nice ride.

My ‘72 Chevy Vega wagon. My god, can a car be worse?!?!?! The goddam worthless aluminum 4-banger blew up. That left me buying a short block where my dad and I transferred the parts from the old turd engine to the new turd motor. The fuel gauge quit, so I had to keep topping off the tank. The A/C compressor died.…

My 2014 Ford Escape. It wasn’t bad or anything, but it was a ‘compromise’ car. And I saw copies of it everywhere. But at least it made me realize how important having a car that I ‘want’ is to me.

I bought my wife a brand new 2013 Ford Escape,probably one of the earliest on the market. A couple days later,the dealer requested it back because of a recall,the first of something like 15 to follow.It was at the dealer for three weeks until a fix was developed.Among the many recalls,several times it failed to crank…