Cat Converters being stolen? How much are they worth?

[DanielJames]

I have 3 in the garage!

BBC News reported this morning over 2000 were stolen from cars last year in the UK

I thought most cars these days had the 'cats' in the manifold??

Bloody s

Are they worth a few quid then?? No wonder they nicked my Saxo one off the drive!!

Dan

[SlimRick]

Our local BT exchange had 13 pinched in one night from the vans parked there. About £40 a piece seems to be the going rate.

[minicab]

50 to 60 quid... but if you're pilfering ten an evening then its a tidy earner, and an easy way to score your next fix.

[tubbystu]

I had mine cut off of my Freelander whilst parked daytime outside the Royal Albert Hall last year.

[Liquid Knight]

Between £30 for an after market one to £80 for a factory BMW 740 one.

[minicab]

4x4s are notorious for being easy targets - usually big engines (think Cherokee, Range Rover etc), and you can just slide underneath to release the cat No jacking required.

[The Moose]

I started thread on here not too long ago about weighing a car in for scrap.

There was one or two people who said that the right cats were a couple of hundred notes...which seems a fair few pennies for such a thing!

[SuperVM]

A van hire place I once used told me that they didn't leave vans parked at the premises overnight as the cats were frequently stolen otherwise.

[Megaflow]

The Moose said:

I started thread on here not too long ago about weighing a car in for scrap.

There was one or two people who said that the right cats were a couple of hundred notes...which seems a fair few pennies for such a thing!

Not when you consider it's full of platinum. Wait until the gypo's work out that the latest off highway legislation means DPF's on huge industrial diesels, are they are the best part if 12" in diameter by 18-24" long and stuffed with platinum!

ETA: P ikey's is in the swear filter, really?

Edited by Megaflow on Wednesday 24th August 08:58

[genericguy]

I hope the thieves are aware it's only post-2002 (I think) cars that have platinum in the cats! I've just bought a brand new cat for my '98 MX5 for £60.

[jbi]

genericguy said:

I hope the thieves are aware it's only post-2002 (I think) cars that have platinum in the cats! I've just bought a brand new cat for my '98 MX5 for £60.

nope... the cats in my celsior are stuffed with platinum and it hails from 1992

[HairbearTE]

jbi said:

genericguy said:

I hope the thieves are aware it's only post-2002 (I think) cars that have platinum in the cats! I've just bought a brand new cat for my '98 MX5 for £60.

nope... the cats in my celsior are stuffed with platinum and it hails from 1992

Anything that's had a replacement cat fitted is an unlikely target - most replacement use a ceramic core. The big money is definately in modern factory fitted DPFs.

[stropley]

The thieves are flogging these somewhere, who is buying them ?

[P I Staker]

stropley said:

The thieves are flogging these somewhere, who is buying them ?

Scrappys.