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all i can say is sorry.
seeing the picks almost makes my heart skip abeat thinking this could happen to me. and i dont have the time or money as you did in your car.
all i need now is a lot of throttle and a whole lot of bottle
i wish i was a NitroFish
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Sorry man, that sucks.
BTW, where was the car located?
~mello
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Originally posted by jag61180:
I've been doing the girlfriend thing, and she steals all my time, plus everytime I see that there is a meeting I seem to miss it. I really wanted to come and show yall my system. What really stinks is that I had just finished building the system. Last time you saw me I had a pioneer head unit and one amp. I built the box in the pictures that you saw, and used the pieces off my other two boxes to make it look cool. then I also built the false floor and flush mounted the amps too. It took me about two weekends and I had just completed all the work in July. It sucks that there is no replacement value for custom work you do yourself.!!! Well anyways, I am going to lose money on this deal so for all the people that thought I set it up for money your stupid. I loved my car, I just finished the work, and I owe way too much for my car, I will take a loss. I owe $13,900 for my car. It is a 1998 SVT with 50,000 miles. Its not worth $13,900, try more like 10 or 11 thousand. I'll be in the hole. I am going to try to buy another contour svt but if I can't find one I like I will purchase a 2001 Mazda MP3, If I get enough money for my tour. I have a feeling I will be without a car for a while. I got 16500 for my contour with 50k miles on it when it was totalled.
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Originally posted by PA 3L SVT:
E0's do in fact have PATS/Securilock. Either this thing was towed, there was a spare key floating around, or they used a code grabber (which means they were around when the car was started). They sure did their homework, either way. I hope they end up in a fiery hell for this. Even A code grabber wont work,the key sends off no rf signal. You have to have a key to actually start it with any relatively ease.Otherwise you have a lot of wire hcking and splicing to do to by pass the "reader" in the sterring colum.Think of the PATS like this,your key is like a credit card,your sterring colum is where you swipe the key(card).If you dont swipe it you get no start or however....
Howard
1998 Silverfrost SVT #1612
June mods:
17" ADR RS Limited Limix Wheels
with 215/45/17 Yokohama AVS Sports
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It's also amazing that they didn't slap on some steel GL 14" instead of EO wheels 14" wheels are too small to clear the larger rotors on the SVTs. This is all a very strange story but at the same time it kind of makes sense. Even if the thief/thieves didn't take the car right away, waited an hour, they'd still have three hours to do this 'job'. Don't forget, its MUCH easier to take things apart than it is to put them back together! As for the intake difficulty I can't comment but with the stereo...I could have removed the components in less than an hour, by myself. I might spend 4-6 hours installing a stereo put I can break it down in no time. Remember, these are criminals with no respect for others property(they were planning to burn it for christ sake!)they don't give a damn HOW it comes out just so long as it comes out! 
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E0 does have PATS, but if you had a PATS bypass for remote start...
Or I'm sure professional car strippers already know how to defeat PATS. If the kids at the alarm shop can do it...
Tony Boner Personal: 98cdw27@charter.net Work: tony.boner@sun.com Saving the computer world from WinBloze as Unix/Solaris/Java Guru http://www.sun.com 1998 Contour SVT Pre-E1 618/6535 Born On Date: 4/30/1997 Now with Aussie Bar induced mild oversteer.
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Did they take the computer too? I'd think the only way to get SVT performance out of an SE or Stock engine would be to have the Cams, Intake, and computer...More than likely this was done by more than one interested party. The wheels went to someone who owned an SVT or SVT wheels...the Intake and Cams went to someone who had a stock Duratec...and the Stereo went to both probably...Just an Idea...
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The pictures make me want to cry too. I'll be more careful where I park my car now too. I'm in the Dallas area, carrollton actually, I'll keep and eye out for a black SE.
Mike
Mike
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