MilesA Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 Monday lunchtime, in under 5 minutes, the cat' converter was chopped off our 20 year old Mitsubishi Space Wagon, parked on the road outside our house. It's an epidemic round here - local garage round the corner said 7 were taken last week and that's pretty average. They usually go for Hondas, Prius' and Golfs. Must be desperate if chopping CCs this old. One guy on look out, the other slips the jack under, the slides under with a high powered cordless angle grinder. Chop, chop and they are away before anyone works out what's happening. Also the CC was on the O/S and its a pretty busy road so the lookout would have had to stop / divert the traffic from running over his fellow scrote. Such pain. Had the car 18 years. Pretty rough externally (it lives on the street in London - no point trying to keep it pristine) but always kept is mechanically on song and only 60k miles. My wife loved it: automatic, sits up high, great for loading up at the supermarket, visiting the dump, collecting Xmas trees, moving big stuff around and some long runs here and abroad in reasonable comfort if not startling performance. And it was the only one of the fleet (apart from the TR) that met the ULEZ emission requirements (the Boxster will be moving on next year). A write off now. A replacement CC its about 3x the value of the car. That would be cheaper than a replacement but probably time to move on and given the car ads my wife was looking at last night, she certainly has. Miles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Peter Cobbold Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 Miles, Maybe they sell these stolen cats on ebay ? Peter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misfit Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 In Bolton there was a card left in the door saying we know where you can get good S/H CCs right after it went missing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geko Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2020/07/police-issue-catalytic-converter-theft-prevention-advice/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 Facebook Marketplace seems to have a lot of adverts from people wanting scrap catalytic converter - cash paid, no questions asked. Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PodOne Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 About time the "chop Chop" included a few hands or a portable gallows for those obviously dealing in stolen goods. Andy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misfit Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 16 hours ago, stillp said: Facebook Marketplace seems to have a lot of adverts from people wanting scrap catalytic converter - cash paid, no questions asked. Pete Perhaps trading standards or the police could investigate the source Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Motorsport Mickey Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) Excellent idea Derek, trouble is police work that requires Footwork or application of resources is just not done. As long as a crime number is sort from the police They almost regard it as a victimless crime. In my previous job I sold Trucks and vans ... easy meat for thieves, good clearance underneath. I had a small fleet ( about 20) 5 ton pickups in the bodybuilders shop having specialist bodywork fitted. Whilst in their security compound (8’ Tall separate lat galvanised Struts with razor wire on top) all 20 had their cats removed And thrown outside over the fence by thieves. ( seen on the CCTV system). Apologies from bodyshop, and replaced by my firm in 2 days ( our cost) complete with cat “cages” to protect the new cats. Two days later same thing happened again, this time the damage to vehicles was extensive (the thieves having to hack The cages off farther down the exhausts and taking the brackets with them), memo to Sales dept Do not fit cat protection cages in future ( we sold them !). Face to face meeting with bodyshop firm, no further orders Unless Different security employed, night watchman with Alsatian sorted it out. Mick Richards Edited July 31, 2020 by Motorsport Mickey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 3 hours ago, Misfit said: Perhaps trading standards or the police could investigate the source Have you ever looked at craiglist? Makes FB Marketplace look like Waitrose. Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Misfit Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 (edited) Tbh Pete I view the TRR forum, and use WhatsApp with my wife and girls. I use search engines to find things, I look at eBay and get my daughter to buy off it, if I can’t make contact by phone thats it, I don’t do fb or Twitter never heard of Craiglist. Edited August 1, 2020 by Misfit Added content Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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