CRIME Are thugs/hood rats going for Infiniti vehicles in your AO?

[Griz3752]

I picked Crime as a category although it could be Chat or a few others; Admin, please alter as you see fit.

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2 teens charged after pastor shot and killed during Whitehaven carjacking

Woman shot, killed in Raleigh identified as 60-year-old community activist


The Whitehaven link is about a female Pastor last month in the Greater Memphis area. The Raleigh one, a week ago at most, is about a “Community Activist”. Both were killed during a car jacking and oddly, both vehicles were Infiniti products.

That stuck me oddly because I’ve noticed 3-4 police stops involving Infiniti vehicles, mostly the 35-37x series over the last couple of months. Has anyone noticed if gang banger hood rats in your AO have adopted that make vehicle as their company car of choice?

I don’t know much about the Infiniti x-drive cars but one would think a high output 3+ litre AWD would be an advantage when trying to evade the ubiquitous Dodge Charger RWD PD car.

I wouldn't want to profile a YBM driving an Infiniti 37x as a banger w/o cause but if we're noticing this vehicle choice as a trend, it might be good to add that config into our situational awareness protocols.

 

[Macgyver]

Infinity are nothing but re badged nissans essentially.
But the infinity's have bigger engines. I would bet they are often stolen for the engines. They turn around and stuff them into the nissans for racing.

Aside from car jacking, nissans and infinities are easy to steel. The computer is right under the dash.
The thief just shows up with one (and the fob) from a junk yard plug it in and go.

 

[Mongo]

There ARE no “thugs and hood rats in my AO”. And darn few Infinitis either.
COOHMP!

 

[EMICT]

These hood rats don't seem to interested in John Deere's and Massey Fergusons in my AO.

 

[drafter]

Lol. No negros driving Ford Superduties or Chevy Silverados around these parts. An infinity wouldn’t even make it up my driveway.

 

[Southside]

Most of my cars have the best anti-theft device there is.

A clutch.

 

[Doc1]

Most of my cars have the best anti-theft device there is.

A clutch.

My truck has a clutch, an aftermarket steering lock and an aftermarket brake lock. There's also an alarm, a 12 GA in the bedroom overlooking the truck and two dogs ready to be unleashed.

Best
Doc

 

[Doc1]

Oh, I forgot to add that my truck has a column shift! When was the last time the hood rats dealt with that??? LOL

Best
Doc

 

[Tex88]

Why iffen your car don't have a reverse pedal and a spark advance lever, you're basically a millennial whipper snapper!

 

[Publius]

Why iffen your car don't have a reverse pedal and a spark advance lever, you're basically a millennial whipper snapper!

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Back when it was made you had a hand crank to start the engine.

 

[AlfaMan]

I picked Crime as a category although it could be Chat or a few others; Admin, please alter as you see fit.

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2 teens charged after pastor shot and killed during Whitehaven carjacking

Woman shot, killed in Raleigh identified as 60-year-old community activist


The Whitehaven link is about a female Pastor last month in the Greater Memphis area. The Raleigh one, a week ago at most, is about a “Community Activist”. Both were killed during a car jacking and oddly, both vehicles were Infiniti products.

That stuck me oddly because I’ve noticed 3-4 police stops involving Infiniti vehicles, mostly the 35-37x series over the last couple of months. Has anyone noticed if gang banger hood rats in your AO have adopted that make vehicle as their company car of choice?

I don’t know much about the Infiniti x-drive cars but one would think a high output 3+ litre AWD would be an advantage when trying to evade the ubiquitous Dodge Charger RWD PD car.

I wouldn't want to profile a YBM driving an Infiniti 37x as a banger w/o cause but if we're noticing this vehicle choice as a trend, it might be good to add that config into our situational awareness protocols.

In the DC metro area Infinitis are a vehicle of choice for all the dindu nuffins that don't want to drive a hooptie or a ex police Crown Vic .

The Infiniti G35 is literally a gussied up Nissan Altima (another car endemic to the dindu nuffin contingent-the infiniti is an upgrade for the more affluent dindus. The G37s are a Nissan Skyline coupe rebadged and softened for the US market. Both vehicles are status symbols for a subset of America's population that has no idea what status is.

In both vehicles a 3.5 litre V6 is used. Pretty solid motor but noisy as can be anytime, any where.These Infinitis hold their own against police dept. Chargers.

 

[wintery_storm]

I own 2 infinitis. I have the G35 which is 18 years old and has 67 thousand miles. I use it for around town. Our other one is the large SUV to pull our trailer.
I happen to like the gussie up Infinitis.

 

[robolast]

In the DC metro area Infinitis are a vehicle of choice for all the dindu nuffins that don't want to drive a hooptie or a ex police Crown Vic .

The Infiniti G35 is literally a gussied up Nissan Altima (another car endemic to the dindu nuffin contingent-the infiniti is an upgrade for the more affluent dindus. The G37s are a Nissan Skyline coupe rebadged and softened for the US market. Both vehicles are status symbols for a subset of America's population that has no idea what status is.

In both vehicles a 3.5 litre V6 is used. Pretty solid motor but noisy as can be anytime, any where.These Infinitis hold their own against police dept. Chargers.

I can't believe police departments are buying Chrysler products - they should stick with Ford

 

[Tex88]

I can't believe police departments are buying Chrysler products - they should stick with Ford

Not that many American made, rear wheel drive, V8 four door sedans around to pick from...

 

[coalcracker]

Most of my cars have the best anti-theft device there is.

A clutch.

For a second I thought you might be going here…

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Griz,

I really didn’t pay attention to the style of car until I read your post, but now that you mention it, I am pretty sure that I have heard of other Infinity cars involved in carjackings on local Memphis news.

Those two events got more airtime because of who was involved in the crimes.

I will have to listen purposefully now for that….

 

[AlfaMan]

I can't believe police departments are buying Chrysler products - they should stick with Ford

The Dodge Charger police version is the only real replacement for the Ford Crown Vics. Most PD's lease their patrol units, a few purchase their patrol units (and take a bath on the resell of them after they're done). The usual lease is 3 years and 125,000 miles.
The Charger is the only rear wheel big V-8 sedan around. Ford did make some inroads to the police car market with their police interceptor version of the Taurus-but it's no longer produced either.

The Ford Explorer (we call it the Ford "exploder") is being used as a replacement in many departments now (once Ford got the leaky exhaust manifolds fixed). The Chevy Tahoe too.

Of course using SUVs' as patrol vehicles means the departments are footing gas bills 35%-50% higher for these thirsty SUVs. But it's taxpayer money paying for the vehicles and the gas, so that's ok

 

[robolast]

Thanks for the info. I forgot it was rear wheel. Since they lease for only 3 years it might be ok but from what I've read and seen they have the most maintenance problems of all brands (including rust).

 

[AlfaMan]

Thanks for the info. I forgot it was rear wheel. Since they lease for only 3 years it might be ok but from what I've read and seen they have the most maintenance problems of all brands (including rust).

The Chargers seem to hold up fairly well in PD service from the ones I've looked at. True, rustproofing is minimal on the cars (as with all FCA/Stellantis products) but the motors hold up well.

Retail/ civilian Chargers have the MDS system installed-which shuts down cylinders when the engine is under light load to help with fuel economy. The police Chargers don't have that installed so that helps with reliability.

The PD versions still get the valve clatter on startup if it's over 75K miles like all the other Hemis out there but it's just clatter, nothing that's going to blow up.

The transmissions in the Chargers and Challengers are ZF units (best thing that came of the Daimler/Mercedes marriage-parts availability!) and are trouble free even under heavy conditions. PD units have a trans cooler mounted in them.

As far as rust; haven't seen much of the tin worm in the Chargers I've looked at. I have seen rust in 2-3 year old Ram trucks; the older the truck more the rust will be eating away at them. Rams are not quite, but almost as bad for frame rust as the Toyota Tacoma, Tundra, 4Runner and Sequoia are. The bodies definitely rust-think the rustproofing they use is thin and poor quality (all the better for higher profit per unit however).

This is even true of the 1996-2000 Dodge Ramchargers (built on a shortened Ram frame) that were built in Mexico (we never got them, boo) . Built in Mexico and sold in Mexico and central/South America-and I'd venture to guess the inner and outer rockers are eaten through in all of them (just like the original ones sold here!)

 

[Macgyver]

My towns little police force has not been buying cars anymore. As the cars have died they have gotten a suburban, a Tahoe and most recently an f150.
They still have 2 crown vics I think. There are 2 more vics but they are parked in the maintenance yard. Probably just sitting there till the town guys crush them with the loader then the FD uses them for extraction practice.

 

[Griz3752]

For a second I thought you might be going here…

either one is likely sufficient.

 

[Griz3752]

I own 2 infinitis. I have the G35 which is 18 years old and has 67 thousand miles. I use it for around town. Our other one is the large SUV to pull our trailer.
I happen to like the gussie up Infinitis.

I was waiting for Nissan/Infiniti to drop the Cummins into the Armada/QX series but they never did. From feed back I've heard about the Cummins/Aisin power train in the XD, I'm sort of glad they didn't.

No experience but I know a few XD owners who seem to have nothing but complaints about actual MPG & Trans reliability/shifting. Has anyone heard of any reliable after market solutions? Or are the complainers I've run across out to lunch/not doing something?

 

[robolast]

The Chargers seem to hold up fairly well in PD service from the ones I've looked at. True, rustproofing is minimal on the cars (as with all FCA/Stellantis products) but the motors hold up well.

Retail/ civilian Chargers have the MDS system installed-which shuts down cylinders when the engine is under light load to help with fuel economy. The police Chargers don't have that installed so that helps with reliability.

The PD versions still get the valve clatter on startup if it's over 75K miles like all the other Hemis out there but it's just clatter, nothing that's going to blow up.

The transmissions in the Chargers and Challengers are ZF units (best thing that came of the Daimler/Mercedes marriage-parts availability!) and are trouble free even under heavy conditions. PD units have a trans cooler mounted in them.

As far as rust; haven't seen much of the tin worm in the Chargers I've looked at. I have seen rust in 2-3 year old Ram trucks; the older the truck more the rust will be eating away at them. Rams are not quite, but almost as bad for frame rust as the Toyota Tacoma, Tundra, 4Runner and Sequoia are. The bodies definitely rust-think the rustproofing they use is thin and poor quality (all the better for higher profit per unit however).

This is even true of the 1996-2000 Dodge Ramchargers (built on a shortened Ram frame) that were built in Mexico (we never got them, boo) . Built in Mexico and sold in Mexico and central/South America-and I'd venture to guess the inner and outer rockers are eaten through in all of them (just like the original ones sold here!)

Like I've mentioned before _ I had a recall on my 2005 Tundra for frame rust. Wasn't really a problem and the respraying they did was terrible. My frame just started getting bad last year. You can think what you want but most of the Chrysler vehicles I see that are at least 7 years old are starting to rust out.

The Chargers seem to hold up fairly well in PD service from the ones I've looked at. True, rustproofing is minimal on the cars (as with all FCA/Stellantis products) but the motors hold up well.

Retail/ civilian Chargers have the MDS system installed-which shuts down cylinders when the engine is under light load to help with fuel economy. The police Chargers don't have that installed so that helps with reliability.

The PD versions still get the valve clatter on startup if it's over 75K miles like all the other Hemis out there but it's just clatter, nothing that's going to blow up.

The transmissions in the Chargers and Challengers are ZF units (best thing that came of the Daimler/Mercedes marriage-parts availability!) and are trouble free even under heavy conditions. PD units have a trans cooler mounted in them.

As far as rust; haven't seen much of the tin worm in the Chargers I've looked at. I have seen rust in 2-3 year old Ram trucks; the older the truck more the rust will be eating away at them. Rams are not quite, but almost as bad for frame rust as the Toyota Tacoma, Tundra, 4Runner and Sequoia are. The bodies definitely rust-think the rustproofing they use is thin and poor quality (all the better for higher profit per unit however).

This is even true of the 1996-2000 Dodge Ramchargers (built on a shortened Ram frame) that were built in Mexico (we never got them, boo) . Built in Mexico and sold in Mexico and central/South America-and I'd venture to guess the inner and outer rockers are eaten through in all of them (just like the original ones sold here!)

We aren't going to agree on Chrysler - but it sounds like the chargers might be a good choice for the police with the transmission coolers and the good transmissions (Toyotas are awesome also). However, what I see on 5 to 7 year old Chrysler products is the rust beginning to show. A police department of course only uses them for 2 to 3 years. I just thought the crown victorias were good cop cars but maybe not. Since the hemis have additional horse power that will help the police also so it might be the best car
Just had my 2016 camry in for an oil change and they said we need to keep an eye on the brakes. I have 142,000 miles on the original brake = I'll take quality and longevity with my vehicles.

 

[AlfaMan]

I was waiting for Nissan/Infiniti to drop the Cummins into the Armada/QX series but they never did. From feed back I've heard about the Cummins/Aisin power train in the XD, I'm sort of glad they didn't.

No experience but I know a few XD owners who seem to have nothing but complaints about actual MPG & Trans reliability/shifting. Has anyone heard of any reliable after market solutions? Or are the complainers I've run across out to lunch/not doing something?

If you like that Nissan Titan with the Cummins diesel; get one now. Nissan is stopping production on the Titan pickup truck for the 2024 model year.

 

[Griz3752]

If you like that Nissan Titan with the Cummins diesel; get one now. Nissan is stopping production on the Titan pickup truck for the 2024 model year.

Saw that somewhere last week; I guess they're falling in line w/ the rest & dropping as many IC engine powered units for EV power trains as they can.

 

[AlfaMan]

Like I've mentioned before _ I had a recall on my 2005 Tundra for frame rust. Wasn't really a problem and the respraying they did was terrible. My frame just started getting bad last year. You can think what you want but most of the Chrysler vehicles I see that are at least 7 years old are starting to rust out.

We aren't going to agree on Chrysler - but it sounds like the chargers might be a good choice for the police with the transmission coolers and the good transmissions (Toyotas are awesome also). However, what I see on 5 to 7 year old Chrysler products is the rust beginning to show. A police department of course only uses them for 2 to 3 years. I just thought the crown victorias were good cop cars but maybe not. Since the hemis have additional horse power that will help the police also so it might be the best car
Just had my 2016 camry in for an oil change and they said we need to keep an eye on the brakes. I have 142,000 miles on the original brake = I'll take quality and longevity with my vehicles.

I base observations on what I see day in and day out. Are you in a rust belt state? Only rust I've seen on Chryslers/Dodges are on trucks. This is the DC metro area. So not really a high rust area per se; but with dealers buying inventory wherever they can get it I've seen some rust buckets. Dealers locally are even buying cars out of NYC. NYC cars might have 10k miles on them-but absolutely beat to death damage wise. So you have to be aware of half a** repairs on them. The used car inventory on dealer's lots today is literally a minefield of scratch and dent cars half a** repaired etc.

You have original brakes on a 16 Camry with 142K miles? WOW. I'm assuming lots of interstate driving?

 

[Idaho 2O]

The crime in Idaho isn't limited to any certain vehicle theft. We are having a lot of trailer thefts, including OHV trailers. We have had a lot of construction enclosed trailer thefts from subcontractors, They'll leave their trailer at a job site and it will be gone the next day. Also, Idaho in general is being hit by roving gangs of credit/debit card thieves. I see a lot of smash and grabs from vehicles happeining in the Treasure Valley. Protect your cards online and do not leave your purses in your vehicles. A lot of this crime, including the massive influx of fentanyl and high quality meth stems from the open borders from our traitor-in-chief. A lot of the cartel meth is now being laced with fentanyl to make it more addictive. You can thank the Chinese for giving all of the lab training to the cartels for this. It has affected every neighborhood in the nation. It will get worse before it gets better.

 

[robolast]

I base observations on what I see day in and day out. Are you in a rust belt state? Only rust I've seen on Chryslers/Dodges are on trucks. This is the DC metro area. So not really a high rust area per se; but with dealers buying inventory wherever they can get it I've seen some rust buckets. Dealers locally are even buying cars out of NYC. NYC cars might have 10k miles on them-but absolutely beat to death damage wise. So you have to be aware of half a** repairs on them. The used car inventory on dealer's lots today is literally a minefield of scratch and dent cars half a** repaired etc.

You have original brakes on a 16 Camry with 142K miles? WOW. I'm assuming lots of interstate driving?

No interstate driving - 12 miles to work each day. I am in the rust belt. You won't agree but the reason that American car have improved in quality so much since the 70s is the Japanese competition. How about Town & Country and Pacifica? Believe it or not Toyota has the rust thing figured out. One of my maintenance workers has a 4 runner and his brakes went 145,000 miles.

 

[Griz3752]

In the DC metro area Infinitis are a vehicle of choice for all the dindu nuffins that don't want to drive a hooptie or a ex police Crown Vic .

The Infiniti G35 is literally a gussied up Nissan Altima (another car endemic to the dindu nuffin contingent-the infiniti is an upgrade for the more affluent dindus. The G37s are a Nissan Skyline coupe rebadged and softened for the US market. Both vehicles are status symbols for a subset of America's population that has no idea what status is.

In both vehicles a 3.5 litre V6 is used. Pretty solid motor but noisy as can be anytime, any where.These Infinitis hold their own against police dept. Chargers.

I knew Infinities were Nissan variants but wasn't sure about the exact relationship - been a while since I was a CarBiz guy.

As usual, the answers were forthcoming on TB2K.