Catalytic Converter Theft

[MTLabrador]

I'm so confused, why is everyone posting car parts in a cat thread?!?!

Also, who TF takes a sawzall to a poor kitty???

When I saw JLS text me that cats got stolen, my first thought was that Finn must have grabbed one of the neighbor cats.

 

[HONEYBADGER]

Gas prices are getting high enough they will soon be back to siphoning gas like they were a few years ago. Don't bother with a locking cap, that just causes them to puncture your tank or filler neck to get the precious gasoline.....

Had the wheels/tires stolen off my Dodge 2500 recently. Factory wheels, stock half worn tires. Was told Dodge's we're a popular target for wheel theft.....can't figure out why......

 

[MarvB]

Makes sense with the prices too, our domesticated felines being cheaper than those hussy foreign kitties!

 

[MarvB]

Need to figure out a way to make cats work without platinum and the price will go to shit.

Back when I was the Ops Mgr for our Utility we actually purchased platinum options years ahead of time to help lock the prices for the eventual replacement of our SCRs on our power plant. Try explaining that to a small town City Council

 

[WestKyHunt]

 

[rtraverdavis]

Gas prices are getting high enough they will soon be back to siphoning gas like they were a few years ago. Don't bother with a locking cap, that just causes them to puncture your tank or filler neck to get the precious gasoline.....

Had the wheels/tires stolen off my Dodge 2500 recently. Factory wheels, stock half worn tires. Was told Dodge's we're a popular target for wheel theft.....can't figure out why......

I had five gallons siphoned out of my pickup about a month ago in front of my house. It was sometime between 4:30 when I got home from work and 9:00 when I moved it into the driveway. Not in the middle of the night. Couldn’t believe it. It’s happened to other vehicles on my block too.

Sucks about your wheels. That’s insane.

 

[LopeHunter]

Yup. Lots of precious metals in them.

The scrap yards that buy these items are knowingly fueling more theft and drug addiction. The delta between what the meth head gets for your converter vs. your cost to have a repair shop replace is staggering. If there was not places to sell the converters without the seller having a license issued by the state saying you have a business reason to be walking around with a grocery cart full of converters hacked off by a sawzall...then no market.

The junk metal dealers are complicit and can smoke a turd in Hell. As can the politicians that whistle past the vehicles lined up to get their stolen converters replaced.

 

[tillicant]

Had a employee a few years ago, would plow and before parking the truck he would top off his diesel pickup with my offroad fuel. I eventually filled the tank with water. He didn't make it home that night, fired him afterwards.

 

[blueridge]

At least one got caught in the act.

 

[OntarioHunter]

I think I'll just hotwire my rig in the driveway. 220 otta do it. Better not go for the gas cap!

 

[blueridge]

Oregon cops make arrests in thefts of 44,000 catalytic converters.

I wonder if yours were among these, @JLS .

 

[tormenter]

I'm not even sure I want to mention this in case we have a crack head member. But our big trucks are usually the only vehicles parked at the trailhead when we come back from our pack trip.

This shit has to stop.

 

[RealMuddyboots]

So now we need "Cat" cameras?

 

[Rob96]

Two nights ago here where I live they hit a fleet of vehicles, vehicles for the Meals On Wheels organization.

 

[TheGrayRider]

Had a employee a few years ago, would plow and before parking the truck he would top off his diesel pickup with my offroad fuel. I eventually filled the tank with water. He didn't make it home that night, fired him afterwards.

Love stories like this one. I wonder how much your former employee had to pay to get his diesel truck running again.

Street justice is much more humorous, reinforcing, and timely than locking the deadbeats up in the county jail for a few days on taxpayers’ dime.

Keep up the good work, TheGrayRider!

 

[tarheel]

The crackheads hit the rigs parked at the boat launches on the west side of Oregon.

A favorite spot in the SE with all the lake launches we have down here.

 

[lifesupport4u]

Uggggggg. I need to paint and etch mine and hope it deters

 

[Deleted member 16014]

…in case we have a crack head member…

There are a few that make you wonder…

 

[fleabagmatt]

I went out to start up my van the other day and it was sounding suspiciously noisy underneath.

Not sure what interrupted them, but at least they didn't get too far along.

 

[Irrelevant]

This is rampant. I didn’t realize how much so until yesterday.

Happened in broad daylight at a park and ride lot.

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Spent a good part of the afternoon on the phone with Allstate and my local shop. OE cats are on nationwide back order per Toyota.

I also ordered from Valhalla’s Shield. If you haven’t considered some sort of theft deterrent, you may want to. Our deductible is zero on this, if yours is 500 or more you are absolutely money ahead.

A theft ring that allegedly made millions from catalytic converters has been busted

Thefts of catalytic converters has skyrocketed over the last few years, as they contain rare metals. The federal government is seeking $545 million in forfeitures from the defendants.

www.npr.org