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The catalytic converter of my DC2 got stolen.

Looks like the thieves jacked the car up and used a grinder to cut it off. The cuts at both ends are clean..... would have taken them a few minutes max.

Bastards. At least the car is still there though

Absolute cunts.

Fuckers. Were you at home when it happened?

I am guessing it will require more than a cat to fix the exhaust again? People can be right fuckers.

GG. wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:26 pm Fuckers. Were you at home when it happened?

No, been away for a couple of days with work.

My garage / parking space is in a block, 50m away from the buildings. Spoken to a few neighbours and we worked out it must have happened on Wednesday night / Thursday morning.

Reported to the police and my insurer.

mik wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:46 pm I am guessing it will require more than a cat to fix the exhaust again? People can be right fuckers.

Yeah they damaged the manifold and the mid section of the exhausts, so no mounting points to ‘bolt’ a new catalytic converter straight on.

What a pain.

Cunts. I'm aware it's on the rise again due to the local facebook group. They did 7 hybrids in one night last weekend.

Hopefully something a skilled local exhaust fabricator can sort YK - maybe welding something in to save you replacing other parts unnecessarily

Mito Man wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:02 pm Cunts. I'm aware it's on the rise again due to the local facebook group. They did 7 hybrids in one night last weekend.

Yeah I was just reading up about this.... the hybrids ones are worth quite a bit of money.

mik wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:06 pm Hopefully something a skilled local exhaust fabricator can sort YK - maybe welding something in to save you replacing other parts unnecessarily

It’s going through with the insurer now..... I need a courtesy car for commuting so I will pay the excess (£550) and let the garage deal with the rest. I have ‘protected no claim’ on my policy so at least that’s that.

Absolute twats.

Where are you in the country, if your local I don't mind popping over and fitting it to save you some money once allowed.

An excuse to upgrade the exhaust....?

Edit: ah if its in use everyday I guess I'm no use

Thanks for the thoughts mate! Yeah going through with the insurer now, easier that way.

Funny enough exhausts are brand new Skunk2, only fitted last year.

Ah FFS, even worse!

Hope it gets sorted as easily as it can be

There was a gang doing this in an Aldi carpark in broad daylight recently. They took about half a dozen in a few minutes whilst people were shopping

I’d love to get a little bit distracted and accidentally nudge a car off it’s jack onto one of these scrotes.

Does seem to be jap stuff that’s the main target at the moment. Jazzes and Priuses mainly.

A little concerned as both our merc and my e36 have pretty massive cats, around here they seem to prefer doing 4x4s as they don’t even have to jack them up.

My friend had the cat nicked from his Prius the day he bought it. Was done in a supermarket carpark in broad daylight. He was rightly rather angry.

I think they target hybrids as the cats are less used so the metals are likely to be in better condition.

Of course this is only enabled by crooked scrappies who then buy them off the scrotes.

Bastards.
I had no idea stealing cats was still a big thing.

Sorry to hear it

Simon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:20 am I think they target hybrids as the cats are less used so the metals are likely to be in better condition.

Of course this is only enabled by crooked scrappies who then buy them off the scrotes.

No because they contain more platinum and rhodium

Also that.

Matty wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:42 am Bastards.
I had no idea stealing cats was still a big thing.

Me neither, I remember when I worked at the salvage yard about 10 years ago people would come in asking to buy used ones and get all upset when we told them we got more for them weighing them in than they would ever pay.

I also remember having to replace one on my MR2 and KwikFit wanted £1500 + VAT + fitting.