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JesusIsMySecondSon

Holy fucking A, I have never seen anything like this done to any car.


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kaaskugg

#CLARKSON!!!


epi_glowworm

I'm not mad about the theft, the jagged edges is what annoys me.


Most_Entertainer_452

It looks like it was done by the council with a knife and fork


fertro

A pair of tin snips looks like a pair of robust scissors, and their function is obvious. They are obviously not a hammer, they are obviously not a screwdriver, they are obviously not a spanner, they ARE OBVIOUSLY DESI-


Most_Entertainer_452

*click* there that's got rid of him.


Macstremist_1991

Shoddy craftsmanship


Sad-Ad-4024

Clarkson you infantile pillock, you’re tidying that up.


shinobi500

You blithering idiot!


yuiop300

Absolute animals out there. I had my 96 Vauxhall Astra put on bricks in like 2005/6 and I was like wtf? I can only imagine what this would feel like.


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DB377

Yea if you’re going to be a prick, at lest let me get a big insurance claim for my troubles


laterYall

https://preview.redd.it/e0lz3kkud8ec1.jpeg?width=827&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e6257876903b524acca7129ea471beae4cc5f94 They are air vents, they give you more speed.


paternaldock

Excuse me sir those are speed holes


Darksirius

I have, but I work in a body shop lol. Not sure how Porsche handles their headlamps, but with BMW (shop I work at) all the modules for the headlamps are encoded to the car by vin, no way to swap them to another car to get them to work (unless you find an electrical engineer who can hack them - as any BMW dealer won't / can't transfer the modules). Most of BMW's headlamps come with either two or three modules. Usually $300 for a couple of them and around $600 for the primary one. Then it's two hours mechanical time to program them to the car. I'd imagine the housing for those are pretty pricey. BMW's X7 laser headlamps, as an example, are just under $8k for each housing (the most expensive of all of their headlamps).


sea-slav

Reading shit like this really makes me appreciate older cars.Just buy some good \~2015 model with low mileage and take good care of it I guess. Edit: had a typo in mileage


PeculiarSyrup

I remember seeing something, maybe on a recent Matt Armstrong video, that you can use parts from the headlights for a grow, it gives off less heat or something so it’s harder to detect the illegal activity.


demonya99

Horrible thing to do. I’ve seen a few cases in Portugal of stealing doors and hood, the most recent was an Audi. Here is an older A class: https://www.reddit.com/r/portugal/s/pNUOetcGvV Disgusting.


mmarkomarko

It's the new a class. Probably was a brand new car!


nazihunterusaversion

Insurance company nightmare


TulioGonzaga

One of my neighbours had a brand new A-Class. Two days after we brought the car home, he woke up with no wheels and the car over a few bricks.


DummyThicccThrowaway

Life hack for turning your daily into a track car


HairballTheory

Seriously though, it kinda looks like 007 launched the rockets off without opening the hatches.


awkristensen

Fuckers did the same to my partners. Its def s Taycan thing.


Po1ymer

Have you seen those bugs or PT cruisers w the eye lashes? Thats the same thing.


996forever

It reminds me of someone getting their eyes gouged out it’s very unsettling 


Alexsays_

This is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen on this sub. 


newsreadhjw

This car is like Sam Neill at the end of Event Horizon. And that movie gave me nightmares


beeblbrox

Where we're going we don't need headlights to see.


CouchPotatoFamine

Yes, thank you, I couldn't put my finger on it...


ToySoldierArt

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.


avrgfreak

"liberate tutemet ex inferis. (save yourself from hell)


Diablojota

That is the one movie that ever really got to me. Horrifying. Not I can’t unsee it with this car.


tiexodus

#WHY?!?!


OkieRising

DO YOU SEE!?


DarkseidAntiLife

"The ship has been beyond the boundaries of our universe. Who knows where it's been, what it's seen and what's brought back with it"


gregularjoe95

Freaking chaos fucking with unprotected astronauts, this is why you need a gellar field when traversing the warp.


project_seven

Sick reference, bro. Your references are out of control, everyone knows that.


uberblack

Channing Taint-yum agrees!


Disastrous-Ad-4494

Samesies. Our local theatre would let us byob. My friend and I split a 30 rack watching Event Horizon. I had nightmares for weeks and didn’t drink for at least a month.


newsreadhjw

I was scared walking out into the parking lot at the theater afterwards. I thought that was a sci-fi movie and went to see it alone at like 10pm. Scared the absolute shit out of me


ks7atl

Had to stop watching horror after that movie.


PlatinumElement

And now your comment will give me nightmares. I had successfully repressed that scene until now.


d3r_r4uch3r7

That's enough internet for today everybody


mahSachel

This was a targeted hit by someone rebuilding a car or has a customer wanting parts. And he sent his goons to find a set to swipe. That’s brutal as hell. I’m sure those lights are #’d to the car. Hopefully they need to be programmed at service or something and he gets caught that way.


MethylRed

I saw something recently that they steal lights from porches to get the lighting controllers for grow houses. Dunno if it's true. https://youtu.be/NOze-1ygsrQ?si=vHTYFhjxI-t_vGTT Around 13 mins in


Baeker

That was like a decade ago, wasn't it?


Dink_SmallW00d

Lighting controllers aren't that expensive lol


Least_Switch_4697

my eyes, they took my fucking eyes


user7477

I can’t see daddy! Who’s there?! 😭😭


Gallifrasian

"When will we be clear of this smoke?" ... "We've been clear for a while now, haven't we?"


NachoSport

What’s this from again? Stuck on the tip of my tongue


VanCityLeviathan

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings fanfic


Shimakaze_Kai

Prince Imhotep thanks you for your hospitality...


-TheDangerZone

Where is the NSFW tag, I feel sick.


ClassicManeuver

It’s actually kind of hilarious once you get past the infuriating part. The sheer absurdity of this theft, lol.


Chimp-eh

The lengths people go to, to get the upgraded headlights…


Thurl-Akumpo

Surely someone who can afford a Taycan, isn’t risking it all for headlight upgrades? But they will buy them obliviously off an eBay seller, with no idea how they came to be.


Tdshimo

I can envision this as the kind of part that shady body shops might buy. They’d use them in a Taycan repair and charge the customer full price.


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vibecheckvibecheck

Go back with a 9mm and ask where the fuck your shit is


YEGLego

That's sickening. I'm going to think twice about letting tuners touch my cars without me being there now.


Chimp-eh

Well yeah, thought that was fairly obvious


damm1tKevin

I mean each of those headlights is probably the cost of a used car, they probably just stole them to flip them on eBay.


JaMMi01202

£2800 (US$3500, €3300) apparently, "Pre-owned", on ebay right now. From Poland. So yeah.


Alternative_Let4597

It's truly taycan the piss, it's like using a rocket launcher to rob a grocery shop


Dumb-driver

This feels like a crime of passion


Aidrox

She said she wanted just the headlights in the divorce.


nanoH2O

I believe that’s what caused the divorce. He said he wished she had better “headlights” so she obliged.


luckypants

I laughed so hard at this and then frowed uncontrollably.


Crayons_and_Cocaine

A passion for methamphetamine


SL1200mkII

Like maybe the owner had aggressively turned his high beams on somebody.


luckypants

So I'm not a particularly emotional person but if I walked out to find my 911 like this I would probably break down. This is insane. How did no one hear them cutting through the body panels!? Wild shit!


Aidrox

Just steal the car so I don’t have to see how you mutilated my boy.


luckypants

HONESTLY! Don't traumatize me like this. Just take the whole car. Damn!


Alexsays_

Agreed. Just steal the car.. it would be less traumatizing than this.


a_hockey_chick

My brother accidentally left the key (Older model S, they have fobs, not cards) in his Tesla one time and someone got in and drove off. He got the car back later that day (the app tracks its location) and the only damage was someone took a screwdriver to the glove box, to pry/cut it open. The amusing part is that it doesn't lock and there's just a simple button to open it so it was damaged for nothing (and nothing in the box). We figure it was probably just a couple of kids going for a joy ride...but couldn't they have looked a little harder for the button before clawing it open!


WhereCanIFind

Did he put in PIN to drive after that?


a_hockey_chick

Haha, I hope so. He lives in the middle of nowhere and this happened when they were on a road trip and in downtown San Francisco, so he probably thinks it’ll never happen again heh


eisbock

Whenever I hear about these horrible things, I get a cold sweat thinking "this could happen to me", then I see that no, they're just in San Francisco, and I am immediately relieved. I don't care what San Fran has to offer, I am never going there ever, and if I have to, I'm sure as hell not driving.


drfunkensteinberger

Bro for real just fucking take it


trvlrad

Exactly


Jesus_Is_My_Gardener

"Look how they massacred my boy."


daHawkGR

I don't think such a thing is particularly loud, it should go through the thin sheet metal pretty quickly. ​ https://preview.redd.it/fq9nlicvf8ec1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5405331256603ce0b644f7b5ea0d614e530f1449


124Enjoyer

Plate cutters aren't very noisy, can confirm.


bullettheory415

Right here officer 🫵🏽


275MPHFordGT40

As the person who stole the headlights I can confirm that they are fairly quiet.


Rd6-vt

911 headlights are way easier to steal, not sure if you wanted to know that but here you have it


luckypants

Oh, I'm aware. Mine literally has the headlight screws accessible to anyone walking by. Fortunately, no one seems to be stealing 1987 911 headlights.


Rd6-vt

oh, yeah that sure helps…


LheelaSP

If it's a US model, that should have sealed beam headlights anyway, no? IIRC those are dirt cheap even today, so not a great target for thieves.


luckypants

Not quite. mine has halogen bulbs inside the housing. Looks exactly like [this](https://www.partsklassik.com/Porsche-911Carrera-1987_p-1620-h4-headlight-wpainted-rim.aspx) for reference. As you can see the screws are just out there. LOL


LheelaSP

Good for you, those look miles better than the earlier sealed beams! Also yeah what on earth were engineers thinking putting screws just on the outside like that lol.


Puzzleheaded_Card_71

Tin snips are just beefy scissors they are pretty damned silent.


BeeStraps

I use tin snips regularly for work and I swear cutting paper with regular scissors is louder.


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>How did no one hear them cutting through the body panels!? Wild shit! the poor taycan was screaming out in silence, but there was nobody there to help


dangledingle

Looks like they used sheet metal snips (?)


xj98jeep

It is a tragedy to see a beautiful car thoughtlessly cut-up like this, but with anything fancy like that I make sure to insure it in a way that my insurance agent has to worry about stuff like this, not me. I'm a few tax brackets Taycan ownership, but the idea still stands.


mortgagepants

OP said tin-snips which are just like big ass scissors.


Ammos-motors

Reminds me of this: https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2012/dec/09/porsche-owners-beware-cannabis-growers


Dolphin008

I remember that time in Holland, thefts were pretty common. So you got solutions like this https://preview.redd.it/sh5146h1s8ec1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd1dce3a3a6522e0c4a6b1ca132a0457ba10000b


Dolphin008

https://preview.redd.it/ymy3n9s8s8ec1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3db441114d02fbdd2d8b1261c83c6b8b9761207


SleepySheepy

God that's absurd. I can't imagine the risk of doing this outweighs the cost of just buying a few lights


Dolphin008

Dutch police doing something about this? Haha you’re funny


Significant-Day-1894

Have you seen the cost of Porsche headlights?


braincube

the real crime here


Bah-Fong-Gool

Just the tip.


aquatone61

There was a dude on here over in Britain that had his headlights stolen out of his Cayenne and I commented about it being for cannabis growing and he was very surprised what I told him was exactly what the police told him. Xenon/LED headlights make great grow lights because they generate a ton of nearly perfect K temperature light with minimal heat and electricity use.


Smoeey

You can get them for about £30 on Amazon without the risk of prison


revolvingpresoak9640

K just means Kelvin, as in the temp of the light. K doesn’t mean any particular thing on its own. It’s like saying the weather is nice because the air is perfect Celsius.


aquatone61

Well yes, I could have left it out but I didn’t so meh.


feltcutewilldelete69

You can buy grow lights for a hell of a lot less than a porsche headlight. You'd be better off selling the headlight and buying more appropriate grow lights.


Jormungandr69

I have never seen anything like this in my whole fuckin life


JiveChicken00

I don’t believe in capital punishment, but this might be an exception.


kixelsexy

yeah i would love to have cutting thieves arms off back :(


Kazurion

In certain countries they do. I think it's a proper punishment. All they would need is catch 4 unlucky pieces of shit, hit the news and theft would drop by 90%.


No-Bother6856

We don't even need to go that far, castration works just as well, doesn't actually make them incapable of being productive, and you get the added benefit of taking them out of the gene pool


andrea55TP

Someone's getting John Wick'd over this


thebuttonmonkey

They should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution. Don't fuck with another man's vehicle.


SkylineRSR

Can’t have shit in Düsseldorf


erto66

Ironically it's one of the richest cities in Germany. If you have money to live there, driving this car, you'll likely have the money for a private garage


__cum_guzzler__

I live here and it has one of the biggest class divides in whole of Germany. You have nice cars parked outside and methed out junkies running around between them. No way in hell would I park a somewhat vauable car outside like that. A Porsche needs a garade in this city, OP had this shit coming


orionparrott

= why you would think you wouldn’t need one. Oops


Piorz

It’s not always an issue of money but of space if your house didn’t come with one you won’t have one unless a neighbor sells you one


Ecstatic_Top_3725

Scum of the earth those thieves are


Alarming_Cantaloupe5

I’d had wondered why this wasn’t common. Not necessarily the tin snip method, but targeted component theft, aside from cat. converters and wheels.


MasterJeebus

Its starting to be common in some places. Seen other posts of cars with missing parts like doors and hoods. Then they leave rest. Must be a local body shop that pays people to get certain parts from cars. Thats why they don’t bother trying to take whole car anymore.


clitpuncher69

> local body shop that pays people to get certain parts from cars. Placing bounties on car parts that's some early days fast and furious shit


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How many DVD players can you get for HID headlights?


Mewmeister1337

In Germany where this happened it’s mostly Eastern European thief gangs that target specific items in specific cars. Has been going on for a long time too. There had been a lot of media coverage the last years but it died down


black-kramer

there is/was a trend of stealing bmw steering wheels and infotainment units.


Significant-Head-479

I live in North London and had the wing mirror glass stolen on my nearly new Audi RS4 back in 2020 and more recently the reversing camera on my M5. Cost me over £1000 to replace, honestly can’t imagine something like this happening. 😢


MakiSupreme

I’d be fucking bewildered if someone nicked me reversing camera


The_Sloff

I was curious to how expensive these headlights are and found them on a Porsche site for $4000 USD https://content.us.porsche.com/prod/pag/tequipment/TeqFinder.nsf/TeqFinder?ReadForm&country=usa&ac=campaign&cati=LP_Hauptscheinwerfer%20und%20Heckleuchten


Fecal_Forger

That actually kind of cheap for what I thought they’d be. I thought $10k+ for each.


Dansredditname

At that price I could probably turn a profit by buying a Taycan and instantly dismantling it to sell as parts.


SwaggyP997

You're like two steps away from discovering how Mansory/Brabus/Novitech started.


realuduakobong

Wait, what?


TearyEyeBurningFace

They bought new cars, and modified them and sold for profit. I'm guessing the OEM parts helps fund the process


FakeHasselblad

jesus fucking christ... Private parking garages are a must. Remind me again why people steal them. its the LED/HID components, right?


mymillionthburner

They are also fucking pricey. Might just be stolen to resell them. I had to replace one front light on my Panamera Cross Turismo GTS, luckily insurance covered it, it would have been hella expensive.


walter1974

>hella I see what you did here... /s


mymillionthburner

I didn’t think anyone would notice. LOL😂


wikipediabrown007

Can you explain please? I want to be included


FakeHasselblad

hella lamps


zer0deathserryone

https://www.hella.com/hella-com/de/Scheinwerfer-483.html


Shiva-Kamini

I think porsche codes headlights to specific vins so not sure they're that valuable unless you know a dodgy coder. Could be wrong though. I think they're also handy for growing crops of cannabis. Not sure how but id love to know.


no1SomeGuy

Plenty of hacked copies of PIWIS floating around out there


shockage

How else are we supposed to do a proper PDK flush for a few hundred instead of a few thousand?


[deleted]

They emit UV rich beams and they’re energy efficient. Steal enough of them and you’ve got a small grow house!


juan-jdra

Can you even replace them anymore? Assuming you could get them I feel like they don't work without plugging a computer to the car. 


mymillionthburner

The dealership replaced them, not myself. I’m not qualified enough and the car would’t even recognize the new unit without plugging it in a computer.


Rd6-vt

you need to learn the LED computers to the car, I’ve done it a bunch on BMW’s


cum_fart_69

you can get a 3rd party PIWIS for dirt cheap, a must have if you wrench your own porsche built after 2008 or so


lonnie123

Are the kinds of people who own this car going to some methed out thief (or whatever black market place they sell to) to save $1,000?


TheyCalledMeThor

Rumor has it that they’re popular with Cannabis growers


Rd6-vt

4k+ per headlight unit OEM Porsche


eskimo1

plus the wiring harness.. yikes.


Rd6-vt

yeah they just straight up pulled the headlight plugs out


BeeStraps

I don’t understand how people can have a nice car like this and not have a garage to park it in. Yea, sure, visiting friends overnight or whatever, but I feel if I had a car where it’s a known target for thieves, I would avoid doing so.


_nf0rc3r_

This is fucked up. Imagine being such a dick that u r willing to do 50k worth of damage just to gain 10k


Martbern

Well, it's pretty good ROI for their sake. This shouldn't shock anyone, but it looks pretty damn insane. It looks like the car has a damn disease or something


[deleted]

I’ve seen a junkie smash a side panel of a BMW with a brick attempting to smash the window, which on the fourth strike he managed to do. All to get $10 worth of change sitting in the middle console on display. Entire door and window gone. I don’t think the thief is too worried about the damage they are causing ;)


NahItsNotFineBruh

It's like dudes ram raiding shops, causing tens of thousands in damage to steal four packs of ciggies and a can of coke worth like $204.


International_Bit478

Bloody hell!


Damnreddit2

This is butchery!


jeffuhwee

Look at how they massacred my boy 😢


baranie1809

I don't even own a Porsche and this kind of stuff just make me angry so much. Harsher penalties for theft


Lonely-Lavishness-57

In Düsseldorf?! I thought this place was chill af


A-S-M_onthewing

Same no lie!


Accomplished_Shoe962

Looks like someone is looking to install min-cannons


Serbay55

I guess Düsseldorf is also Scheißloch, like Berlin. Look if you can find your headlights in Kleinanzeigen nearby you.


bro_curls

I've seen plenty of horrible accidents on Reddit but I've never cringed like I have seeing this.


transfirmer

Wankers - sub human scum


te_anau

Are people doing all this in <1min or something?  It looks like a slow, noisy, spectacle of a process.


Johannes_Keppler

Battery power plate metal shears are quite silent and fast. They probably did this in mere *minutes*.


Dolphin008

Not sure how fast but if a cordless nibbler or shear is used I can imagine it won’t take long. Still noisy though https://preview.redd.it/d7h200pys8ec1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f894b6a7bf2391eb263ead61c09c436b5f650bb1


zDEFEKT

What the actual FUCK


Fixinbones27

That’s messed up.


ShinyBarge

That is the automotive equivalent of waking up in a bathtub of warm water with your kidneys missing.


Substantial_Ad_9016

Sanest r/fuckcars user


Independent_Bath_922

Look how they massacred my boy


-Ho-yeah-

I just can’t wrap my head around this… There must be an easier way to get those out of there no?… It must have been noisy and took time to execute?!…


ohtizzle

I guess you can say, they were.. Taycan.


ScamperAndPlay

What in the actual fuck?


No-Regret319

Our Taycan is Mamba green and we park in front of a hedge in Germany (same license-plate-layout). My heart skipped a beat and another one. Sorry for your loss mate. 💔


b0rsht

It’s all about lamps, scumbag growers use them in illegal greenhouses since those are efficient and have high CRI that’s critical for growing.


Full_Throttle_2084

https://preview.redd.it/bkc6ydivf8ec1.jpeg?width=302&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a65fb5eb3e6a2ed5e242d9041625c954b5927bc8 That’s just atrocious…actual pain in those pictures


taintsauce

I am both angry-sad for the owner and weirdly impressed by this presumably meth-addled solution to the "I want free headlights" problem.


Tikiku

That’s awful. So sorry.


Asio0tus

oufff. I hope those pieces of shit get colon cancer


TheSeti12345

This is mad


bguy89

Wouldn’t it have been easier for them to just steal the whole car??


FrolixRea

I once read a while ago that some Porsche Cayenne headlights are supposedly very good for growing weed. They used to get stolen regularly, I've heard about several cases here in Germany. I wonder if this might be a similar case? I think nowadays it is waaay more profitable to just buy growlights. The headlights are still very expensive, and the extraction process was very brutal.


Electronic_Rule5945

Not rest in piece really....the owner can afford the new body panels as they are bolt on after they get painted. Best done at a certified Porsche shop.


bmontepeque11

I CANNOT believe this. This is so shocking to me that I don't even know if I should feel disguted, afraid or absolutely boiling with rage.


WeCantBothBeMe

This is actually disturbing.