nickb834
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So - I got up this morning to find my S4 mirrors -err nowhere to be found :-(
Police have someone in custody that did over 5 cars not 400 yards from my house but he'd already stashed his loot - so I'm still down two mirrors.
I called Audi to see how much and nearly had heart failure - £1183.46 to replace my Ally bodied, heated and anti glare mirrors.
Trawling eBay only showed the caps, and some nasty knock offs - the glass alone for the anti glare mirrors turns out to be £200 a side - my excess is only £150 so I'm off down the insurance route.
Now - the point of this thread, I've heard of these mirrors being stolen before - even heard of some really unlucky sods getting done twice. I'm thinking that when the mirrors are replaced for OEM ally ones that I'll get them vinyl wrapped in black (to match the car) such that they don't look special - and hopefully don't get ripped off again.
I was tempted to get these replaced courtesy of the insurance, and then replace the caps with plastic ones / vinyl wrap - what does everyone think?
Police have someone in custody that did over 5 cars not 400 yards from my house but he'd already stashed his loot - so I'm still down two mirrors.
I called Audi to see how much and nearly had heart failure - £1183.46 to replace my Ally bodied, heated and anti glare mirrors.
Trawling eBay only showed the caps, and some nasty knock offs - the glass alone for the anti glare mirrors turns out to be £200 a side - my excess is only £150 so I'm off down the insurance route.
Now - the point of this thread, I've heard of these mirrors being stolen before - even heard of some really unlucky sods getting done twice. I'm thinking that when the mirrors are replaced for OEM ally ones that I'll get them vinyl wrapped in black (to match the car) such that they don't look special - and hopefully don't get ripped off again.
I was tempted to get these replaced courtesy of the insurance, and then replace the caps with plastic ones / vinyl wrap - what does everyone think?