Keep an eye on your cats!

[911p]

Here's the rather brief story.

Day 1 - Transit van completely fine.
Day 2 - Transit van very, very loud. Thought to be a blowing exhaust.
Day 3 - Taken to a garage where it was found the catalytic convertor was missing.

So basically, my dads Transit had it's catalytic convertor stolen in the middle of the night. I read in the papers that they're stealing them for the copper inside them. Likely? Consider this a warning - they must be pretty easy to strip off of a Transit! Not sure what measures could be taken to stop this happening again, any wild PH suggestions?

[edo]

Yup, some scum round here nicked the catalytic converter off the new community mini-bus. How low can you get?

PS. The replacement had the bolts welded - will make any future work a pain of course.

Edited by edo on Thursday 13th May 17:16

[B17NNS]

edo said:

How low can you get?

Dunno, suppose it depends on the ride height of said bus.

[Andeh]

It's not copper inside but platinum, or so I've heard. Either way there's a lot of it going on.

[Lost soul]

There is a campervan sales place not far from me one night the other week the Pikeys , or who ever stole the cats off all the vehicles on the site

[coley20]

Andeh said:

It's not copper inside but platinum, or so I've heard. Either way there's a lot of it going on.

Beat me to it

wkers

[ScottishSamurai]

Free decat exhausts by Pikeys (c)

[Dam0ZR]

A customer of where i work came in the other day and asked for some plates to be made to cover the access to his cats on his lorrys, they keep getting stolen by pikeys at night. Sods

[coley20]

I was chatting to an MOT inspector and he said that some cars don`t need Cats to pass emissions test, is this right?

[911p]

coley20 said:

I was chatting to an MOT inspector and he said that some cars don`t need Cats to pass emissions test, is this right?

Pre-1990 cars or something.

[Mattt]

coley20 said:

I was chatting to an MOT inspector and he said that some cars don`t need Cats to pass emissions test, is this right?

Pre 93 is it?

You can sometimes pass emissions without a cat anyway, but IIRC they check for visible presence.

[whitevanman88]

Mattt said:

coley20 said:

I was chatting to an MOT inspector and he said that some cars don`t need Cats to pass emissions test, is this right?

Pre 93 is it?

You can sometimes pass emissions without a cat anyway, but IIRC they check for visible presence.

I believe diesels get away without?

[richyb]

A friend had his cat cut off his 728i a week ago. £400 to get it fixed for the sake of a tenner for some low life.

[nsmith1180]

Kia dealer I worked for got done a couple of times. So we started tack welding the cats on.

[Dog Star]

In the paper a couple of weeks ago that 4x4s were getting them sawn off - so the tacking doesn't necessarily work.

Best ever reason for having a very low car. Or a Citroen CX