Thieves will steal what they can sell. The complete lack of fender theft should tell you something. I repeat - how would you sell a ‘hot’ fender? How many BMW repair shops would buy a ‘hot’ fender?
Got any proof?
Having never seen or heard of it in 50+ adult years, I ask you for proof it exists.
Or are you just having fun today?
Anyway, YOU’RE the one that said it’s uncommon! Are you arguing with yourself???
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Does this help?
The retail price of a part isn’t the issue, it’s the ability of a thief to make money stealing one. Combine crazy difficult theft and transport with a very limited market for ‘hot’ body parts, and you get your answer. What don’t you understand?
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More than enough has been said about this issue imo. I won’t make any more additions to this thread as long as nobody else does.
Guy comes back to his car an hour later and says what are you doing to my fender?
But really under $400 Nevada is not bad. Of course another $800 to paint it and blend.
It seems some progress has been made on this topic at least. Fewer claims the only value for a fender is what it would bring for scrap metal, which of course isn’t generally true.
It is if removed with a sawzall, the only practical way to do it quickly.
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Depends on the def’n of “quickly”.
Stolen body parts come from chop shops that stole the whole car. Fenders, cats and all. They are stripped very quickly and the shell with the VIN is shredded before the cops come.
But many body parts have the VIN marked on them just because of theft so they become worthless to sell whole.
Well, someone with a 1988-1992 Corolla sedan might need them. But so few of these cars are still in use that there might not be much demand. The last time I went to the You Pull It junkyard (a few months ago), I saw a 1991 Toyota Celica, and two 1987-1991 Toyota Camry’s, and amazingly, no one had taken any parts from these cars. As recently as 5-6 years ago, a Camry from this generation would have been picked clean. Even the motor and transmission would have sold. Not anymore, I guess.
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92 Corolla fenders? Definitely has 'em, but I don’t recall mentioning a 92 Corolla in this thread. Why all the interest in 92 Corolla fenders?
The Checkers, most of which were used in cab service, but some were sold without the lights on the roof and the hail me paint job were designed so that any.fender could be removed and replaced in 15 minutes. Back in 1963, I looked at a Checker Marathon that had been traded in at the Ford dealer in the college rown where I was in graduate school. I didn’t buy the Checker because I worried that I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night worrying that someone might steal my fenders.j
Speaking of checker, they were usually yellow. We went to see Bonhoeffer tonight, a big disappointment, but in one scene was a cab with the sign “yellow cab” but the car was black. It was in the late 30’s and can’t recall if it was in New York or Berlin, but it struck me that even back then I would have thought the cab should be yellow not black. I know they borrow old cars for these shows and I can understand how an owner wouldn’t want their restored 90 year old car painted taxi cab yellow, but curious about the authenticity anyway.
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NYC didn’t standardize their taxis to the classic solid yellow color until the late '60s. Before that, it was a case of–literally–anything goes, with the color varying according to the company that operated them.
I recall NYC taxis that were red & green, green & yellow, red & yellow, and… maybe… some other color combos. This is one example from that era:
In the town where I lived, one cab company’s color scheme was brown & white, while another one used black & white.
If you watch a color movie of NYC from the period prior to the late '60s, you will see what I mean. For instance, the NYC sequences in North by Northwest show a variety of those taxi color schemes.
Cabs in the DC/Baltimore area are a lot of different colors and have been for a long time.
Fender theft from old Citroen 2cv was common in Europe. Used to see 2cvs driving around with different colored fenders all the time. They come off with one bolt.
