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MEXICOWANDERER
May 12, 2014Explorer
Thieves take car. They get 200 yards. Now how hard is this? There are chop shops all over Mexico. This is the =genuine= problem with car theft. Car gets taken driven 50 to 75 miles on back roads where there are no retenes SSP, and two days after driving into a walled yard, a very expensive GPS tracker gets made into a metal tortilla with pressed IC's and dimpled PCB board. The Canadians Rainbirds Jeep for example will net out to around 15,000 worth of parts. Fenders, engine, tranny, windshield, seats, etc. The rest goes as Chatarra to Monclova or Lazaro Cardenas. The expunged GPS ends up as part of land fill.
Go to México some time. The City. There you can wander through dozens of acres of parts so hot, they don't need night time yard lighting. Oh yeah, they aren't cheap either. But if you need a fresh engine for a BMW 733i it's the hot setup.
Go to México some time. The City. There you can wander through dozens of acres of parts so hot, they don't need night time yard lighting. Oh yeah, they aren't cheap either. But if you need a fresh engine for a BMW 733i it's the hot setup.
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