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Thieves stole my catalytic converter
Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:27 pm
Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:27 pm
Sawed it right out from under the car in the middle of the night. Seriously, WTF...
Guess I'm going car shopping since it's an old car and I'm not doing a $1250 repair on a clunker.
Does anybody know if newer model cars have some sort of theft prevention for catalytic converters in case these worthless junkie thieves come back and hit my apartment complex again? Or maybe I could booby trap it?
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Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:27 pm to AUFANATL
Just weld (or bolt) a straight pipe. They don't look for that shite during inspections.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:30 pm to AUFANATL
Y’all need to set up some kind of parking lot foot patrol. You will need to be trained to make arrests, conduct surveillance, and set up random checkpoints. I’d call your sheriff’s department in the morning to see about scheduling something with him on Monday.
Every day you wait is another catalytic converter down the drain.
Every day you wait is another catalytic converter down the drain.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:32 pm to fightin tigers
My catalytic converter is so cheap it uses a real cat
Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:33 pm to AUFANATL
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Guess I'm going car shopping since it's an old car and I'm not doing a $1250 repair on a clunker.
You can buy a replacement on Amazon for $75. An exhaust shop could put it in for $100, if that.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:34 pm to AUFANATL
What makes you think a new cat costs $1250?
Shouldn't be more than $300 installed. You don't want to just weld straight pipe, it will be much louder than stock.
Shouldn't be more than $300 installed. You don't want to just weld straight pipe, it will be much louder than stock.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 6:52 pm to LNCHBOX
quote:After only removing the cat? Not likely. I know of several vehicles with no noise increase to the layman
You don't want to just weld straight pipe, it will be much louder than stock.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:03 pm to AUFANATL
quote:Aubies LOVE these of Ford Explorer Sport Tracs
Guess I'm going car shopping since it's an old car and I'm not doing a $1250 repair on a clunker.
They are gender fluid like you guys-
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:04 pm to fightin tigers
quote:
Just weld (or bolt) a straight pipe. They don't look for that shite during inspections.
This. I've replaced exhaust on cars I've owned over the years and went from the exhaust port to the tailpipe with new stuff and nixed the catalytic converter in the process and have never had an issue when getting an inspection sticker.
They don't check that shite.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:08 pm to AUFANATL
that is a $150 repair and replacement at any muffler shop
but by all means go buy another car rather then spend that much
but by all means go buy another car rather then spend that much
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:22 pm to AUFANATL
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Thieves stole my catalytic converter
I don’t believe you. Unless everything else around you in a 20 mike radius that isn’t bolted down is stolen, no one is wasting their time stealing cat converters.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:35 pm to Retrograde
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no one is wasting their time stealing cat converters.
Catalytic converters have rhodium and platinum or palladium in them. That’s why they are so expensive.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:39 pm to LNCHBOX
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$300 installed
I had to put a new one on onetime $300 If that.
Mine had disintegrated internally cause back pleasure and loss of power.
This post was edited on 9/22/18 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:39 pm to LNCHBOX
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You don't want to just weld straight pipe, it will be much louder than stock.
Sir, this is the dumbest thing I read here today and you get zero points at failing the internet today.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:45 pm to AUFANATL
quote:
stole my catalytic converter
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$1250 repair
You’re getting fricked twice
This post was edited on 9/22/18 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:47 pm to fishfighter
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Sir, this is the dumbest thing I read here today and you get zero points at failing the internet today.
I took out the catalytic converters on my truck for an offroad Y-pipe and it was so much louder I had to change out the mufflers a few months later. You'd have to be pretty clueless to imagine that catalytic converters don't dampen exhaust sound levels.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:48 pm to Clames
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You'd have to be pretty clueless to imagine that catalytic converters don't dampen exhaust sound levels.
Yeah not sure what that dude is talking about.
Lot of people I went to high school with would straight pipe their trucks. Sounded like glasspacks.
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:48 pm to AUFANATL
Time to catch some thieves and make an even trade for that cat converter: Take their lives!
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:52 pm to AUFANATL
Have you made an insurance claim?
Posted on 9/22/18 at 7:55 pm to fishfighter
Man, LNCHBOX is just getting his arse handed to him on a variety of topics today across a lot of boards. Rarely is someone so dumb about so much.
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