minibreakdown
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Hello all, my first thread.
I recently bought my 2004 D2 in the UK. As I live in France I am having to change the headlights to LHD for the French MOT and registration. Having bought them from a well known land rover site they arrived yesterday so I looked on the discovery section to see if there was a thread on how to change them over. It was then that I saw a thread on the theft of this type of headlights and how prevalent these thefts appear to be. No other models seem to have this problem.
I can only think that contributing factor could be pre face lift D2 models being updated to a newer looking model means that there is a demand for this type, hence some of the thefts. Where there is a demand there will be someone willing to supply.
I am not saying that people should not be able to take pride in their D2s and get them looking the best they can.
What I would like to throw out into to forum is that the real problem is that each headlight does not have a unique identity number, so, if a possible stolen headlight is recovered by the police or one of us buys a stolen one there is no way of putting the thieving bags of pus
who are in possession or sell said headlights in front of a court.
As after searching I cannot find any suitable light guards that will only possibly cause more damage if someone steals my headlights I thought another way could be make the headlights identifiable.
Another search on a subject that I saw used to identify objects from the home to deter burglaries. Micro dot technology. I have now done another search for "micro dot security", this throws up loads of results. I found one where you paint on the microscopic product, enough for all valuable bits of the car not just headlights for around £25.
I am going to be doing this as If I can't keep the headlights on the car I want the thieving scum to be caught and IF enough owners did it and signs were put in car windows this scourge may be reduced.
Thanks for reading and thoughts.
I recently bought my 2004 D2 in the UK. As I live in France I am having to change the headlights to LHD for the French MOT and registration. Having bought them from a well known land rover site they arrived yesterday so I looked on the discovery section to see if there was a thread on how to change them over. It was then that I saw a thread on the theft of this type of headlights and how prevalent these thefts appear to be. No other models seem to have this problem.
I can only think that contributing factor could be pre face lift D2 models being updated to a newer looking model means that there is a demand for this type, hence some of the thefts. Where there is a demand there will be someone willing to supply.
I am not saying that people should not be able to take pride in their D2s and get them looking the best they can.
What I would like to throw out into to forum is that the real problem is that each headlight does not have a unique identity number, so, if a possible stolen headlight is recovered by the police or one of us buys a stolen one there is no way of putting the thieving bags of pus
who are in possession or sell said headlights in front of a court.As after searching I cannot find any suitable light guards that will only possibly cause more damage if someone steals my headlights I thought another way could be make the headlights identifiable.
Another search on a subject that I saw used to identify objects from the home to deter burglaries. Micro dot technology. I have now done another search for "micro dot security", this throws up loads of results. I found one where you paint on the microscopic product, enough for all valuable bits of the car not just headlights for around £25.
I am going to be doing this as If I can't keep the headlights on the car I want the thieving scum to be caught and IF enough owners did it and signs were put in car windows this scourge may be reduced.
Thanks for reading and thoughts.
