Here's a story for you guys. I'm sitting here at work (east side of Indy)in my office, when one of my accountants comes up to me and asks "Do you have time to look at my Jeep?" Since she's pretty much in tears, I grab my coat, and go look at her Jeep. Just walking up to it, you can see the muffler sitting on the ground. Well, I get under this thing, and the catalytic converter is gone! The thing was cut out (had to be a Sawzaw or something) and everything else was left as-is. The remaining exhaust pipe is in fairly good shape, so rust wasn't the culprit, and the cut lines were far too straight to be anything but cut out.

Is this a wanted item or something? I know replacing them is not cheap, but since Indiana is free of emission testing, why would anyone risk cutting one out of a vehicle in a business parking lot in broad daylight? Thoughts?

 

Yes there have been several series of thefts involving the cats because they fetch $100-$120 on the blackmarket. They are valuable because of some precious metals found inside that can be removed and sold.

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?se...cal&id=5378700

 

I work in auto insurance claims, this is very common.

 

Unreal... Thanks for the info guys.

Does insurance cover this sort of thing?

 

Yes, if you have full coverage, it is a comprehensive loss.

 

It happens a lot. In the city people do it at dealerships - A few people will give you $300 for a few different converters...

 

People need to be shot!

 

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Big story every so often. Cordless sawzall, and a skinny kid is all they need. I blame the frigging scrapyards for buying them.
I used to get stuff stolen from my company all the time. Always ended up at the scrap place.
Agree^^^ frigging people do need to be shot.

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You'd think the scrapyard would question why Joe Nobody pulls up in his rusty pickup with about 10 catalytic converters. I guess the scrapyard guys want to make their money too, and don't care how they make it. That or these guys know someone on the inside...

Well, they're in for a let-down if they go to all the effort of getting under my Camaro...

 

go to the parts wanted section on this forum and search out "catalytic", there are 2 or 3 guys paying over 100.00 for them. They are recycling them. I dont know what they fetch from the recyclers but it must be pretty decent money.

 

i wish someone would do this to my 00 impala and 03 f-1fitty. the cats are "above threshhold" and causing my f'ing ses light to come on. full of precious metals. any thieves reading this - come get it.

 

haha I knew there was a reason i don't have cats on any of my cars or my truck

 

Theres a link in the parts wanted thread for a guy buying all cats I think you get 145 for a set of our cars off the ls1cars

 

I sold him a couple on this board. My local scrap yard only wanted to give me 5 dollars a piece so I laughed and shouldn't have even let them price them out.

 

Come get it. Awesome.

 

I work at a dealership, and we had an attempted theft. They would've got it had the blade not broke with a half inch left to cut...haha. They also took out the trans lines in the removal

 

Awesome... Now I have an excuse to tell the neighbors, cops, and anyone else that questions why the car is soo loud. Simply say, "The Catalytic converters were stolen a week ago I'm working on getting new ones but they are soooo expensive it will take me a while to afford new ones"

 

i have heard of people stealing them from the dealerships over the weekend pretty crazy think about it probly x2 cats for car X about 40 cars depending on the size of the dealer yeah... you would think when u take 80+ cats to a scrap yard they would know something was up but they just dont care

 

Check if there is an extended warranty on the cats. There are on the F-bodies and it's possible your cars are also covered. Since the cats are emission control parts, EPA really goes after GM if they fail in any numbers at all.

 

Sean, just drive up to my place.......I'll cut them out for you