Between 9:30am and 11:30am, someone walked away with my passenger side view mirror, just the glass mirror itself, not the housing. My car was street parked on the right side next to the scaffolded windowless side of the building. The street is pretty busy. The driver side mirror would have been too exposed, but I guess it would be pretty easy but gutsy to just pretend you are the owner adjusting his mirrors.

It had a Maxiview blind spot mirror on it. Maybe they wanted the Maxiview and ended up pulling the entire mirror off with it still attached. As advertised, it is near impossible to remove once stuck on. They said it couldn't be stolen. Evidently, they need to footnote unless the entire mirror itself is stolen. Maybe the thief was a mini owner that cracked his own side-view mirror.

My dealer has never heard of this happening. The receptionist found it humorous. Anyway, I just ordered another one for under $60 from MorristownMini. It just snaps back on. Ironically, they just installed my car alarm.

I may need to give in and pay hundreds of dollars a month just to garage my mini. I'll wait until someone steals my radar detector and portable GPS.

What odd things have y'all had stolen? Oh yeah, I also had one of my tire valve caps stolen.

If you live in nyc and find your passenger side 2007 mini cooper mirror stolen, it wasn't me.

 

2 sets MINI of tire valve caps in the first month of ownership Now I just have plain black ones.

Mark

 

Kids love to steal the tire stem value covers esp if there are designs on them.
Not sure why they do it, maybe for their bike tires?

 

I had a valve cap stolen the first week. Nothing since in
about 2 years. I'm surprised my grille badges haven't been
swiped. I'm thinking people probably don't realize they're
magnetic and super easy to take off with. Let's hope they
don't

 

A mirror and a couple of tire caps, still much cheaper than parking garage.

 

I had a set of those S badge valvestem caps stolen once. Replaced and are still on my s-heavies. They have not been stollen yet, but then I hardly use the s-heavies anymore.

 

someone stole the registration sticker off of my license plate when i lived in San Francisco. it was a pain in the ***, but i suppose it was better than losing an ipod or getting a broken window or something...

 

a windshield wiper...

 

Not stolen, but a tire shop forgot to tell me they lost my metal valve stem and replaced it with a regular black one. I noticed the next day.

 

haha samething happen to me i wasnt happy! but i dont think they lost them they just like the shiny ones to themselves

 

Once a tireshop forgot I had metal caps and put black ones back on. When I went out for my car I noticed right away, they had half the shop looking for them, till they "appeared" on some guy's tool box. I didn't care, next time I took my caps off myself before I got there. They put black plastic ones on and I switched them at home.

This is a seperate instance from my other post because this second set was not stolen and I got them back.

 

A few years ago I was parked in a garage. When I picked up my car I didn't notice anything until I was driving home late in the day and saw something hanging underneith the car in the shadow. When I got home I found that someone had stolen my front turn signal, and I saw the wires & plug hanging down. They actually brought a screwdriver and unscrewed the signal and unplugged it (which I thought was pretty courteous at the time), and basically used my car as their own parts car.

 

I did the same thing, only with my plain black ones so I could replace the silly green ones they put on.

 

The 7th day of owning my mini, I walked out to it to find the passenger side mirror dangling from it's wires. The black cap was on the other side of the street all smashed up.
Found it completely odd since it was curbside

Dealer wanted around $500 for a new mirror, I ended up fixing it with the tube to the vacuum.



Sounds odd though....any mini owners in your near proximity?

 

I can't figure out how the tube from your vacuum cleaner could fix a smashed mirror or mirror cover????

You must be a real McGuyver!

If I send you my old broken blender and a few handfuls of pine bark mulch, can you fix my faulty air conditioner compressor?

 

LOL
What happened was the mirror was dangling from the wires.
The mirror popped of of it's mounts as well, although none of the clips broke surprisingly...
So basically it was hit and the bracket holding the spring tension snapped releasing the majority of the mirror from the part that mounts to the door.

When I went to the dealer, I mentioned all this and they said the mirror was shot since the spring mechanism came apart.

Turns out the vacuum hose was the same diameter of the spring and clasp so I put it all in place and pressed it on the vacuum tube till it was back in place.

And mounted it on the car.....Got lucky I guess.

No McGuyver here...

 

I'll still give you McGuyver points for that one! Great creative problem solving.

 

Only things stolen from my MINI were the oddest ones so far. Someone had stolen the metal SSR valve stem caps from the right side of the car only, not the left. At least whoever stole them was nice enough to replace them with ordinary black plastic ones.

 

Someone stole my antenna one day and put up all of my windshield wipers... I was pretty mad

 

Someone just stole my outdoor car cover today! From in front of my suburban townhouse! It was there at 1pm. By 5pm it was gone!

...and I just put it on 2 days ago.

Crap!

Who would do that to an innocent little mini cabrio?

 

hmmm. antennas, tire valves, side-view mirrors, turn-signal lights, windshield wipers, and car covers. i'm beginning to wonder how prevalent are mini owning thieves that accessorize or replace their lost parts. i guess i was naive in thinking that mini owners were above this.

at least i hope the punk who stole my portable gps unit does not drive a mini.

 

Somebody has been "playing" with my rear S badge on my Clubman. So far, they have managed to scratch the paint in swirls around it and have loosened up the E and R on COOPER...jerks.

 

My buddy has a honda s2000 and people always steal ether his Antenna or Emblems.

I had someone smash out the window on my Mini once and steal my Stereo. (Aftermarket one) That was kind of a bummer. On the bright side I fixed it all myself for $250. Just sucks vacuuming up all that glass.

 

I bet they "forgot" to tell you. Nothing upsets me more than someone not letting you know that they lost something, hoping you won't find out. It is dishonest and a very quick way to pi$$ me off.

Did the car cover blow off, by chance?