$120,000 Worth of Wheels and Tires Stolen From My Local Chevy Dealer.

"Deltyn drives a meh car" (retro-mod) 05/01/2019 at 19:40 • Filed to: None

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The other night, a group of people broke into the Chevy dealership next to where I work and stole 31 sets of wheels off of new cars. Today, the express techs at my dealership spent all of their spare time installing wheel locks on all of our inventory.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nola.com/crime/2019/05/120k-worth-of-tires-rims-stolen-off-31-cars-at-slidell-dealership-police.html%3foutputType=amp

RPM esq. > Deltyn drives a meh car 05/01/2019 at 19:46

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You know these guys were pros because they had to plan ahead and buy so many cinder blocks.

Also, thieves suck, although this is a fairly impressive heist.

Deltyn drives a meh car > RPM esq. 05/01/2019 at 19:49

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I was also impressed. just stay the fuck away from my stuff.

Brickman > Deltyn drives a meh car 05/01/2019 at 20:20

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That is so dumb. T he police will just look at anyone selling new Chevy wheels.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Brickman 05/01/2019 at 20:27

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Or these have been melted into a couple gand worth of scrap

AestheticsInMotion > Brickman 05/01/2019 at 20:30

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Or they'll just ignore it

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Deltyn drives a meh car 05/01/2019 at 20:50

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I imagine there will be lots of older Chevy trucks rolling around Mexico with shined new GM wheels and tires.

Deltyn drives a meh car > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc 05/01/2019 at 20:57

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This was my first thought as well.

DipodomysDeserti > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc 05/01/2019 at 21:11

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Probably not, much easier to scrap them out.

The Snowman > RPM esq. 05/01/2019 at 21:14

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Normally they just leave them on the rotors on the ground...

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Deltyn drives a meh car 05/01/2019 at 21:25

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I give them points for execution, but I’m not sure I see the overall strategy here that leads to the profit part.

Selling them would be the quickest way to get caught unless you sold them piecemeal and took them a long ways away to do it. Even then, there’s only so much demand for OEM wheels. Selling them scrap and netting a few grand is probably the way to do it, but even then you’ve got to dismount 31 sets of tires, and you’re still going to have to scrap them piecemeal to multiple metal buyers over multiple trips spread out over time. Tires would also have to be sold slowly over time someplace else. Given the time and effort to do all of that, along with taking them in the first place (which presumedly was done with more than a person or two), it strikes me as a lot of work for a few grand split between however many people and spread out over time.

I’m not sure I see this paying better than getting a job.

Deltyn drives a meh car > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 05/01/2019 at 21:41

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I didn’t think there was enough demand for piecing out OEM wheels either, but my friend seems to think that these 20" chrome Chevy wheels net quite a sum when sold as a set of 4 because Chevy guys like to put them on older trucks. Also, any shady used tire shop could easily add these brand new tires to their inventory and sell them for 100% profit. I don’t know the thieves plans, but I’m sure they didn’t go through all of this without having a plan  on the back end. From what the article says, they have already likely done this a few times in texas

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Deltyn drives a meh car 05/01/2019 at 21:54

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I’ve done the newer wheels on an older truck with my former gmt400 suburban , and even then the going rate was a couple hundred dollars for a set of  newer Escalade wheels with usable rubber. I wonder if the 20s go for a lot more?

Deltyn drives a meh car > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 05/01/2019 at 21:56

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No clue, but even at 200$ per set, they have 31 sets. I added pictures of a variety of 2019 Chevy wheels to the original post if your curious what they might look like.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Deltyn drives a meh car 05/01/2019 at 22:36

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Shoulda seen it live.

#Liv ePD

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 05/01/2019 at 23:23

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Plot twist, Chevy corporate stole the wheels just to sell them right back to the same dealer.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 05/02/2019 at 00:05

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I like the way you think.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Deltyn drives a meh car 05/02/2019 at 04:24

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smuggled to Mexico and sold on perhaps?

atfsgeoff > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 11/22/2019 at 15:20

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Used tire shops are often fences for these kinds of scores. Only those “in the know” get offered the hot goods.