By Pandafriend - 24/01/2016 18:42 - Mexico - Mexico
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Op here! This is my first FML and I'm happy it got posted :) To answer some of your questions. How does a sunroof get stolen? I have no idea, but these Mexican thieves tend to be very creative, and quite handy by the looks of it. I guess they stole it because it's an expensive car piece, but the jokes on them because it has a serial number and technically if they try to sell it they could go to jail (if the correct laws were to be applied). But maybe they just sell it as scrap glass. And on the bright side I'm really glad they only stole the sunroof and not the whole car, and they didn't take anything from inside either, I was worried they might have taken any car papers but luckily they didn't. And the reason why I haven't gone out in such a long time, is because I didn't use to enjoy it, every time I went out I didn't have any fun, and also I find it very hard to maintain a conversation with friends let alone a stranger, and I like staying at home reading or here in FML. I was actually amazed about the fun I had. But if I go out more often now, I'm making a note to myself to never park in the street and always leave it with a valet parking.( Although a valet parking once stole my spare tire, but I didn't notice until I needed it, much after).
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Your friends did it, a subtle hint to "get some sun". lol, jokes aside that's a pretty random thing to steal.
Dumb Mexicans man I swear
It was a trap
Ah, Mexico, where anything not bolted, glued and duct taped down is liable to be stolen.
They are on the way to make your car open top
Are you sure it was stolen and not just, you know, open?
out of all the parts of a car to steal, why a sunroof?
I'm gonna call bullshit, on the fact that in order to steal a sun roof, you first have to gain access to the car, pull out the entire headliner, take out the 6-8 bolts holding it in place, and undo the gutter plugs and I clip the wiring harness, There is physically no possible way to get the sunroof out of the top of the car, at all
How the actual **** do you steal a sunroof
I'm gonna call bullshit, I'm a mechanic, the make and model doesn't matter, and it wasn't sitting in the car unsecured as a sunroof is actually too big to do so, to steal it, they would have had to pull the supporting plastics off the head liner, pull all the pins, unbolt 6-8 bolts holding the actual sunroof in place. Unplug the four gutter plugs, and unplug the wiring harness, it's a two person job, that takes almost an hour and several tools. So OP your sunroof wasn't stolen.
Well, I had a Firefly, think it was a 1992 or a 1993 (it was a long time ago), and when that sunroof was open, all you had to do was to pop it out of the clip that held it closed (from the outside, it was harder from inside, actually), and then pull it off its hinges. It only took me like a minute, no tools, the one time I needed to do it (I don't remember why), and I wasn't practised at it at all. So it is entirely possible. It still doesn't answer the question of why, though, unless they saw an opportunity to replace a broken one. Honestly can't think of another reason except to get access to the interior, but it doesn't sound like anything else was stolen.
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How do you even steal a sunroof? haha
that thief must've been really bored.