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A very small number of folks are causing most of our problems like this. If they weren’t around anymore things would change for the better. There are no positives to keeping them around. Swift, sure and final justice would make a huge difference. “That’s what.” - She | |||
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...they got my Toyota 4runner -dirty bastards! Eye for an Eye! You cut off MY cats ...then let me cut off YOUR finger! HK firearms Collector | |||
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Cali raised Cat shield on the Tacoma. Fairly easy install cuz you can crawl under the truck without jacks. I figured the Prius was safe cuz it’s so low to the ground but more precious metals in a hybrid. Miller stainless Cat Shield going on tomorrow. I guess better to put deterrent in place AND carry a big stick. | |||
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if only you could hook up the flame thrower theft device to something on the Cat, once it feels the vibration of a saw, woooosh massive flamage, that might deter some thieves  | |||
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Is it good enough to protect just the engine side of the cat? Or do you need to protect both sides? I have some AR500 plates. Can I bolt or weld these to the frame or the exhaust (engine side of cat)? Or is that not a good idea? "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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I think any deterrent, enough to make them doubt the quick score, would be enough. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Some miscreant targeted our Volvo wagon's cat a couple of months ago, but for whatever reason didn't complete the job. He did succeed in turning the exhaust into literal 'low hanging fruit' for all manner of curb cuts and tall speed bumps. Frankly if he'd taken the cat I would just straight pipe the exhaust anyway since we don't have annual emission tests or vehicle inspection to deal with anymore. About the only decent piece of state legislation to go into effect in the past couple of decades. -MG | |||
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I’m still thinking welded razor wire. If the blood trail goes cold at least they’ll have DNA. The bonus is you don’t just stop him from getting yours, you stop him getting more. Hell, if the cops can sit on him long enough, you might be able to stop the assholes buying them too. | |||
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I’m mostly always parked in an area of little concern. I can’t imagine many legitimate sales of a sawed off cat. Seems it could help by taking incentives away, paperwork & tracking. | |||
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I wish they'd steal the DOC, DPF, SCR off my truck. They wouldn't even need a jack and I could use the insurance money to replace it. | |||
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Bewildered by the TLA's. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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A friend of mine owns a shop that specializes on Acura / Honda and he said that most of the cars in their parking lot which has other businesses that service cars got their cats taken too. Now he he forbids his customers from parking and leaving their vehicle overnight there or risk having their cats taken. God Bless  "Always legally conceal carry. At the right place and time, one person can make a positive difference." | |||
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Well, according to The Learning Academy of the Theater of Living Arts at the Texas Libary Association, temporal light artifacts can do that to a person. Diesel Oxidation Catalyst, Diesel Particulater Filter, Selective Catalytic Reduction. All three parts welded together as one unit and only sold as one unit for about $4,500. The honeycomb ceramic matrix inside my DPF is cracked, so fixing it requires the whole $4,500 assembly. | |||
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How does a broad that stupid survive to adulthood? | |||
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After 1996, catalytic converters have, in addition to the platinum, palladium and other metals, rhodium to clean up NOx emissions (hence the name "three-way catalyst"). Rhodium is ~$13-$18K per ounce, a good ten times that of the other metals. | |||
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^^^ A friend of mine had that happen for a car he bought on eBay Motors. He told the guy he didn't have the cash and would have to run into town and hit an ATM. They agreed to meet up in 2 hours. In the interim, he called me and I drafted a lawsuit filed it and then had the driver served when he showed back up. As I recall, my friend got a nice settlement from the driver and the company. __________________________ | |||
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Okay, I'm stupid. Every car that's supposed to have a catalytic converter is sold with one. They don't go bad and have to be replaced, right? It's not that many accidents where the catalytic converter is damaged and has to be replaced, right? So who's buying these stolen catalytic converters and where is the demand coming from? "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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ReyHRH, a Cat can go bad. They can plug full of carbon, rust. There are scrap yards which buy them. Stupid tube teaches people how to extract the metals. I imagine on new car collisions they get sawed off and resold for much more than scrap as a new cat by shadey garages. I can imagine many get shipped off in bulk to some other country like Mexican. Someone in authority should have long ago made stealing, selling and buying these a high priority. Customer's should put this right back on the auto manufacturers. I'll buy your vehicle if it's cat is secure from removal or come up with an affordable alternative sans the metals. | |||
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