richardkf wrote:
Drewd wrote:
Don't bother with painting it green ot putting a diesel only sticker on it. Consider not doing so as protection if your CRD gets stolen. Odds are the thief will put gas in it eventually and you vehicle probably will be recovered within a week.
If you're CRD is stolen, you wouldn't want it back afterward ... especially if they put gas in your diesel tank. I'd rather have the insurance money for a replacement that didn't have the daylights beat out of it before they put gas in it.
I'll second that motion.
Several years ago, out in Portland, a friend that's involved with electric vehicles had one stolen out of his driveway. Can't remember the make or model, but it was a popular late-model car that the owner had converted to battery-only electric drive. The owner had left it with my friend to perform a battery pack change out. The batteries had aged to the point it only had a 5 to 10 mile range at best.
One morning, my friend got up and the car was gone out of the driveway. He called the police, and a couple hours later they found it parked along the northbound shoulder of I-5, 6 miles from his house, battery pack deader than a doornail. And probably out of sheer frustration at being foiled in his robbery attempt and stranded along I-5 in a high-visibility area where someone was sure to notice, he'd made some attempt to trash the car before hightailing it out of there.
That guy must have been one clueless SOB.