You get into your car, turn on the heat in the seat and the steering wheel, and before you drive off, you naturally look in the mirrors to make sure that the road is clear. Or; then you don’t, because the mirrors are gone.
This is how a miserable morning might play out, because the theft of mirrors from newer cars has become a thing along with particle filters, steering wheels, airbags and the touch-sensitive screens that have made their way into new cars. That’s what FDM writes.
The theft of side mirrors has been a well-known phenomenon in several European countries and in the USA, but has apparently hit Denmark in recent months. In November, it happened to a number of cars in Humlebæk and Fredensborg in Nordsjælland, later cars in Randers and Viborg were scratched for their side mirrors.
Vestegnen’s Police have also experienced several thefts of side mirrors.
When it is a phenomenon that affects newer – and also typically slightly more expensive – cars, it is of course because the glass for the mirrors is quite expensive, because there is a lot of electronics in the glass itself, and so they are easy to steal. They are naturally on the outside of the car, so it is difficult to protect yourself once morest theft.
Mercedes-Benz Denmark tells FDM that a typical glass for a side mirror costs DKK 2,500-3,000 plus VAT, and then the labor salary comes to change the glass on top of that.
The electronics that sit in the glasses are typically heating wires, the system that ensures automatic dimming for lights from behind and then indicator fields for the cars’ blind spot alarms.
– Our assumption is that it is often an organized crime, where the thieves sell the car parts on. It can be both traveling criminals from abroad and perpetrators living in Denmark who are behind it, says communications consultant at East Jutland Police Emil Enemark Sørensen to FDM.
2024-02-16 18:06:23
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