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 Has anyone had them stolen? How do you protect them? I here NJ is a hot spot for this type of theft and I live nearby in NYC and I am worried? | | Reply » xenon lights |
Place these two things around your car:
and
Just kidding.
I've never heard of anybody just stealing xenons. Wouldn't they have to pop the hood to get to the lights without breaking them? I mean, if they were to do that, xenons are the least of your problems since they'd probably steal your whole ride. 
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the xenons in maxima gets stolen pretty easily, in fact there is a lawsuit out seeking class action status against nissan for not bolting the headlight unit down hard enough and making it easily accessible to thieves. thieves are after the hid ballast unit to modify and put into riced out cars. as far as bmw xenons i haven't heard any unusual or high theft rates of them.
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Jan 7, 2005 11:57 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (STAMFORD) If you have a luxury car, you've got a new worry -- thieves in Fairfield County may want to steal your headlights.
Stamford police are investigating a series of thefts of Xenon headlights from high-end cars. While only a few crimes have been reported so far, more than 240 cases have been reported since August in Westchester County in New York.
Thieves use screwdrivers to puncture fenders and pry the ultra-bright headlights out of cars, said Sgt. Peter diSpagna, head of the department's property crimes unit. The Xenon lights cost as much as $600 each. Repairs could cost thousands more.
William Rehm, first deputy commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Public Safety, said there is a lucrative black market for the expensive bulbs and the attached transformers that provide their power.
Police believe some auto body shops buy the lights and resell them at higher prices, Rehm said.
The lights are popular in luxury cars, including BMWs, Audis and some Lexus models, police said. Rehm said the Lexus RX330 "appears to be the model of choice" for the thieves in Yonkers, Greenburgh and New Rochelle, N.Y., the three Westchester communities that have reported the most thefts.
The Stamford cases involved an Audi, a BMW and a Nissan Maxima, diSpagna said. In one case, thieves ripped the front grill off a car to get access to the headlights, he said.
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Quote: | Wouldn't they have to pop the hood to get to the lights without breaking them? I mean, if they were to do that, xenons are the least of your problems since they'd probably steal your whole ride. | Have a look at eBay. See all of those auctions with "broken" or "repaired" mounting tabs? I'll give you one good guess why they're broken...
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Quote: Has anyone had them stolen?
How do you protect them?
I here NJ is a hot spot for this type of theft and I live nearby in NYC and I am worried? | You don't protect them; you hope the car manufacturer made them hard to remove and/or difficult to use in another car. I haven't heard much about BMWs being targeted (never read a story about it here either), but there were a couple news articles about Porsches getting hit many/multiple times in Florida, Maximas being easy, and possibly Acuras?
NJ seems to be a hotspot for all things bad for your car.
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