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Has this ever happened to anyone else?

Today, I noticed that the 'cover' to my socket on the towbar is missing!  Either it's fallen off - which I doubt it or some swine has pinched it, while I was out with the children yesterday!

Aren't there some rotten swines about that do this!

Allllllll, the time! Have given up replacing 'em now coz I think the local car spares place has been swipin' 'em!

Won't give the buers the satisfaction anymore, 'specially since our new van has to have the de-greased tow ball, so no more mucky legs! (Well, not  from that at any rate -lol)

My name's hippy chick and I am a ukcs addict.......

  I thought some mean scumbag had nicked ours once and THOUGHT i saw it on the back of a neighbours car as it is a white one so crept down the close at night and got back our propety . Felt really chuffed with myself until OH found ours in the garage so had to play at being in the SAS again to put it back.

  Took OH a couple of hours to stop laughing.

  Jo

We had our tow ball cover pinched several times. We would usually discover it  had gone when we had fouled a skirt or trousers with grease.

So I bought a stainless steel one, drilled a hole in the bottom edge and slipped a padlock through to lock it in place. I also turned the cap so the lock was exposed to deter potential thieves from trying but they still did.

I suppose its the same with wheeltrims - they nick them 'cos they can. 

We have a detacheable towbar now so it can be unlocked and stored elswhere.

We lost our tow ball cover but was quite amused when the next day it had been replaced with a fluorescent green tennis ball, cut off at the bottom