This is becoming a City menace. The thugs will sell you back your own Mirror. Thieves will pluck it out even as you drive through jam or immediately after you park your Vehicle.

Have your mirrors secured by metal clips riveted to the side mirror Housing. Also have the window visors, front and rear car logos, rear wiper clip, and simply any detachable part, be riveted to the car body. Cary a gun and shoot the thugs off our streets!!!

im a victim of this..my mirrors were riveted, so the guys plugged off the whole housing....wht they then do is, they break the original mirror, put in a bandia one from the glass makers and sell the housing...i replaced mine, second hand, at 8k!! and iv vowed that the moment i see anyone of them street guys stealing anyone elses mirror, il punch, knock or SHOOT them if the resources are available!!!!

is it possible to rivet it from the inside as in onto to metalic body of the car...?

those marks are removed very easily they even made me wonder if they have any use.

This is one reason which made me think that i should acquire a gun. they snatched the whole thing when i was making a call inside, i tried to run and shout but they disappeared. It had an identity.
Those who buy the joined ones are the ones who create the market.

let the 1st tire come from me - and if theres more thieves than tyres, then ALL the tyres constituting to the balance will be donated by me!!!

There is our problem. They steal because another driver will buy from them in the name of saving coins. Which puts everyone's mirrors and other detachables at risk.

Not that I am in the business, but being one who fiddles with cars, I'd say:
1 - Perhaps they "show" the lens to some flame for a brief while - let it melt the plastic and the marks disappear
2 - Cleverly spread a thin layer of super glue - super glue melts hard plastics (though it leaves a hazy surface - but that can be buffed later with some other chemical)

So, another reason not to buy over powered recycled beer cans?

Sorry, could not resist - i know its a shitty experience having stuff ripped off you car - my sis has had her Carib vandalised TWICE in Kampala - and they also do wipers over there (reasoning is perhaps because Uganda is one of the few countries in the world where it rains for at least 300 days of the year...so you need wipers - not like here, if your wipers got nicked in June-July, you'd probably not notice until the October rains)

Too funny FS n great facts about UG's rains in relation to wiper theft, I am seriously LMAO!