Brother call and told me his son in Kansas City had the catalytic converter stolen out from under his car as it set in the high school parking lot where he teachs. He went to start the car and it made a lot of noise. There is clean cuts where they sawed it off. Insurance company says it will be $1785 to replace it.
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Kickinbull
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Friend of ours was in a grocery store in shopping center in middle of day. Came out, started car and WHOOM! She called her husband, he checked it out, they got something else, not the converter. But like you say, cut off with cordless saw.
Yea...dreaded problem everywhere...any parking lot is a target...especially if left overnight or for a couple days with no security or cameras. Thieves are known to hit several or a dozen or more cars on one lot if no one scares them off. They used to target abandoned cars or ones that are idle but nowadays it's any car or truck. Cat converters untraceable and then off to scrap so quick cash.
GeneMO
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- Location
- Pilot Grove, Mo.
I bought some one ounce platinum coins in 1995 or 96 for $404, kept them about 10 years and they sold for $900.
It got even higher after that. Haven't kept track of it recently.
Gene
It got even higher after that. Haven't kept track of it recently.
Gene
Years ago, there was a group of wanna be hoods in the nearby city, one of them, many years later, and after serving time in a federal lock up, (supposed to do 15, got out in 7) got nailed for taking a bunch of converters off new vehicles in a GMC dealers lot. In the same time frame, another got nailed for solicitation of the red light nature. None of em were too bright. The converter thief was not so nice to ladies. Prior to the lock up, he bothered my girlfriend and her friend quite often, at work etc. I did have the pleasure of taking care of that, he certainly never learned a thing though, locked up for narcotic conspiracy, soon after release he ends up a common thief. In his mind he was one of the "goodfellas"
I talked to a converter buyer and it seems the not so ignorant scumbags know which ones to steal. Some vehicles don't use the same metals or as much of them and they tend to leave those alone. A lot of vehicles may also be too difficult to cut out so they get a pass also.
He told me they like the toyota trucks, they bring good money and are easy to cut. He included most, not all foreign based vehicles seem to use more precious metals than American. I didn't get anymore details but they are all worth a chunk to the right person and a big chunk to the poor guy that has to replace it.
He told me they like the toyota trucks, they bring good money and are easy to cut. He included most, not all foreign based vehicles seem to use more precious metals than American. I didn't get anymore details but they are all worth a chunk to the right person and a big chunk to the poor guy that has to replace it.
Oh, and I bet almost any theft should be a felony charge considering the cost of replacement. Price OEM converters from the dealer, I've seen the part alone cost upward of 2k, I'm sure some are higher then add the labor and/or welding which could be several hundred more dollars.
The worthless scums will steal anything else too, batteries, fuel, wheels/tires you name it.
The worthless scums will steal anything else too, batteries, fuel, wheels/tires you name it.
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
I'll laugh if they ever try stealing mine.
Ken Macfarlane
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Local yard pays like 10$ a piece, even for great big ones or japanese models.
If I had my old van, me too... it got plugged up and I didn't have the money to replace it, so the shop I used at the time just emptied the pellets out of it (Ford provided a convenient screwout plug for that) and I drove it like that until I traded it in (actually sold it to external_link for twice what the retail value of it would have been!). A thief cutting it off would have been very surprised that they had an empty shell.
A daughter of a gal my wife works with got mixed up with a drugged up thief who was stealing cats. The Columbus cops had him staked out and followed him to a "job". When he crawled under a car they surrounded it and when he came out he went for a gun. They shot him dead right there. The girl they didn't charge since she wasn't with him like she usually was. I understand that scared her enough to straighten herself out, mostly, and she has a regular job now.
Billy Shafer
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I worked with a guy that had a hot temper.Got mad
on a job one day went to his truck. Jumped in
cranked it and took off.Burning rubber all the
way. Ran over the guy under his truck. Drug him
across the parking lot. Before security stopped
him.
Didn't kill they guy. But I think he did lose an
arm. Don't think the cat was worth that much.
on a job one day went to his truck. Jumped in
cranked it and took off.Burning rubber all the
way. Ran over the guy under his truck. Drug him
across the parking lot. Before security stopped
him.
Didn't kill they guy. But I think he did lose an
arm. Don't think the cat was worth that much.
Geo-TH,In
Well-known Member
Indiana has passed laws to cut down of thieves stealing catalytic converters, copper especially from AC's.
Anyone buying scrap or pawn shop buying things has to have a photo of your driver's license. One pawn shop owner refused to follow the law, he was buying stolen items. The cops put him out of business. Took all the items in the store, his checking account, many items he had at his house too. Cleaned him out for being a fence. The only thing they didn't take was his SS and his wife's pension. He went from living in a pent-house to the out-house..
Anyone buying scrap or pawn shop buying things has to have a photo of your driver's license. One pawn shop owner refused to follow the law, he was buying stolen items. The cops put him out of business. Took all the items in the store, his checking account, many items he had at his house too. Cleaned him out for being a fence. The only thing they didn't take was his SS and his wife's pension. He went from living in a pent-house to the out-house..
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