Anyone missing an XJ

There was a modded XJ found by a few people from NWW this weekend at Reiter, the liscense plates and vin plates have been removed so I'm thinking it was stolen for a joy ride and dumped.

It's grey with cut fenders, not sure on the lift or tires but they look like 33's on stock steel wheels. Summit racing and Jegs stickers on the hatch.

No plates, glass is missing, some douchebags likely stole it, took it for a wheeling joyride, and abandoned it when it got stuck.

That sucks. Hopefully someone will be able to ID it and go pick it up.

We are on our way to go drag it out now.

Karl, Tom and I got whats left of it out.

So where you end up taking it?? Tow truck get it ?? Just wondering cause if ya just left it there its just going to end up back out there again by someone else. Next time they will prolly catch it on fire like the others on the news. Its just sad when this happens.

When Tom and I got there at about 4, it had no tires and someone rolled it down the hill. Damn shame too, we were hoping that we could just re-install the rear drive shaft (which was sitting in the rear cargo area, bungieed to the floor), hot wire it and drive it to the parking area.

Anywho, it took Tom's and my winch to get it back up the hill. Then tom's winch tripled up to get it back around the corner and up to the ridge road. Tom started yanking on it, and the rear end hit a rock. Tom spun a tube on his rear dana 60, and it broke the output shaft on his transfer case.

So I started yanking on it with my TJ, and Nick tugging on me with a tow strap. It lost ALOT of parts on the way back down to the pit, and the front end was held in by a single shock. Tom collected all the parts which we put in the rig. We left it right by the sign at the main parking area.


Tom took lots of pics, I called Kim and she said she would have it taken care of. We did find a vin plate that they forgot to remove. They had stripped the dash vin, the door vin, and the one in the glove box. But they forgot the one under the hood.

Pics will be up tomorrow when Tom figures out how to post them.

Thanks A LOT to Tom and Nick for helping us keep Reiter a great place to play.

PornstaR said:

So where you end up taking it?? Tow truck get it ?? Just wondering cause if ya just left it there its just going to end up back out there again by someone else. Next time they will prolly catch it on fire like the others on the news. Its just sad when this happens.

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After the roll, it doesn't look like it did anymore. It's DONE. It did about a full ass over tea-kettle then onto it's roof down that cliff. IT was a PITA winching it back up.

When things like this happen, once we get it off the trail, we call Kim with the DNR and she jumps through the official hoops to get it taken care of.

No one stole it.

The owner dumped it.

You do not pull tags and VINs off a stolen vehicle just to get rid of it, you do that to hide ownership.....I am sure the owners story will be different.

Bravo for cleaning up trail trash.

Rev

Rev Den said:

No one stole it.

The owner dumped it.

You do not pull tags and VINs off a stolen vehicle just to get rid of it, you do that to hide ownership.....I am sure the owners story will be different.

Bravo for cleaning up trail trash.

Rev

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But the thing was sitting on a lift kit, oversize tires, and didn't look completely thrashed in the first pics. Can't see why the owner wouldn't just sell it if he wanted to get rid of it. Much more profitable and less effort than driving out to Reiter and abandoning a viable rig.

Photos of the recovery.

How it was when we got to it.



We winched it up a bit, then rigged off to some trees for re-rigging.



Almost up.



Only the corner left to go.





Me and nick dragging it to the parking area.



How we left it.

I think I'd cry if I ever saw my jeep like that.

What a damn shame. Waste of a perfectly good jeep.

Looks as if the control arms and brackets have seen better days.

That was from dragging it, had the wheels not been removed we would have driven it or towed it.

shoulda taken some of the parts. someone was being stupid and left it for someone to take care of. you took care of it, you shoulda gotten something from it.

Accessory to the crime? :twak:

ddeadserious said:

shoulda taken some of the parts. someone was being stupid and left it for someone to take care of. you took care of it, you shoulda gotten something from it.

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That is TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!

Sure, the rest of the parts on that rig were in damn good condition. Everything: (axles, tranny, engine, xfercase, driveshafts, etc...)

BUT it is STEALING. Despite the fact that that rig was dumped in the woods, whethere it was stolen, or dumped by the owner, one can never know... IT IS STILL THEFT OF SOMETHING THAT ISN'T YOURS!!!!!

If you want to do it legally, you can call the police, let them know where it is, send in a VIN, and apply for a title. The process is FREE, and if nobody has reported it stolen after a certain period of time (30 Days in WA) then the vehicle becomes yours.

That is the right way to do it. If I EVER catch folks stealing parts off of "abannonded" rigs, I call the police.

It isn't yous, so don't mess with it.

:gee:YEA! What he said

my vote is for taking the parts!!!!!!