catyletic theft

john_fermor@hotmail.co.uk · May 18, 2009

on sunday some bastard cut the catyletic converter off my defender,it will cost over £300 to replace anyone out there any useful ideas how to secure this part as to stop this happening again. the police say this type of crime is now common place in the uk.so all 4x4 owners be warned.

Beast o Bodmin · May 18, 2009

i dont have one.no cat no theft...just wack in a bit of pipe.it will still pass mot

109party · May 18, 2009

u sure bout that bob i thought if it was as standad u had to have one for mot

Oddie · May 18, 2009

If they cut it off then obviously there is no way of securing it to stop it happening unless you make the exhaust out of a material that is harder than a saw, which would be unfeasible! Only other option is to get a zone alarm (which detects the proximity of people), or one which detects when the car is being earthed, or just connect it up to the mains!

PS Why are you only warning 4x4 owners? Never happened on me Audi Tuattro!

Beast o Bodmin · May 18, 2009

109party said:
u sure bout that bob i thought if it was as standad u had to have one for mot

not sure but i did test a mota once without that should of had and it passed.
If the landys got a mot why not wack on a bit o pipe go see the garage for an "emissions check" then see what happens.most user freindly garages will do this for a few biscuits etc.

Oddie · May 18, 2009

or get a "Clip off cat" and a piece of clip on pipe, clip on the cat for the MOT and then clip it off and put on the pipe for the rest of the year!

nickh75 · May 18, 2009

last year my exhaust went just before the mot was due, so before i went to get an exhaust i went to the garage,where i normally take it an was told that if it's a diesel it does not need to have a cat on it, it is more of a partical filter than a cat and was also told it would have to be a proper jobsworth that would even consider failing it coz the emissions would be well within legal requirements, an that was the tester who is a fair bloke any way.

G-man · May 18, 2009

if yers gots a doozel yer dunts need a pussy to pass the test, (unless the tester is a **** bucket)

if yer has a petrol you'll not pass the emissions test without it

if you runs auto-gas you dunt need one

Soloby Rob · May 18, 2009

[email protected] said:
on sunday some bastard cut the catyletic converter off my defender,it will cost over £300 to replace anyone out there any useful ideas how to secure this part as to stop this happening again. the police say this type of crime is now common place in the uk.so all 4x4 owners be warned.

It seems a lot of work for a few quid, round here cats are fetching about £25 tops.
If your Deepender is a diesel, the thief has done you a favour mate.

landrovermilfer · May 19, 2009

they are not nicking em to sell em on , they are nicking em to strip the precious metals out of to weigh in for scrap , there is amongst other precious metals about 1 gram of pure platinum in a catalytic convertor and this is what they are nicked for according to my mate the copper .

109party · May 19, 2009

how much does one gram of pure platinum weigh in then at ike money wise

Mseries3 · May 19, 2009

Don't know, but I think it is £25 a cat at the moment.

ratty · May 20, 2009

Mseries3 said:
Don't know, but I think it is £25 a cat at the moment.

they were fetching about £60 at one point

Mseries3 · May 20, 2009

I think that was back last year when scrap was through the roof. I may well be well of the mark though, as i can't remember the last time the scrappie came to work.

Mseries3 · May 20, 2009

It does also depend on the cat, a cat on a ford festia is obviously going to get less than one off a V8 Rangie.

landrovermilfer · May 20, 2009

last year when scrap was high value it was about 40k per kilo so 40 quid of platinum in a cat but theres other stuff in there thats worth a few quid too ...

smurphy · May 20, 2009

[email protected] said:
on sunday some bastard cut the catyletic converter off my defender,it will cost over £300 to replace quote]

Are they not covered by our insurance? Mine's fully comp is it covered?

gavbriggs · May 20, 2009

how do they get the platinum out? whats it worth?
it must be worth a bit to go to all that trouble!

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