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This would explain the recent increase in catalytic converter thefts https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49767195 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49767195
by ortusdux 7y ago
This would explain the recent increase in catalytic converter thefts
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49767195 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49767195
- Nux 7y agoIndeed. Someone I know has had theirs stolen twice.. last month. I've just had a catloc (anti-theft) fitted last week, let's see what good it'll do. Glad we're moving to EVs and away from this nightmare.
- AWildC182 7y agoJust drive a car with very low ground clearance. Problem solved?
- ars 7y agoNo, not solved. They will just use a jack. And since they don't care about damaging the frame they can employ it very quickly.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoNot in a world where jacks exist...
- asteli 7y agoi have a lifted truck but i'm cheap so i just wrapped a length of chain around the cat, secured with shitty padlocks i had laying around. doesn't actually have to be secure, just look like enough of a PITA to remove that the thief moves on.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoI cut mine out of my trucks and put a straight pipe in. Sold them myself. Only able to do that in a state that doesn't regulate citizens to poverty.
- saagarjha 7y agoHow exactly does cutting the catalytic converter out of your truck keep you out of poverty?
- cowmoo728 7y agoI don't agree with his sentiment, but some people find it unfair that California basically requires every car sold in the US to come with a $1000 part to control pollution. The argument is that California regulations shouldn't set the price of cars in Mississippi.
- caf 7y agoI am quite literally astonished to learn today that there is any first world country where catalytic converters are not required equipment.
- jdsully 7y agoCats are required everywhere, but in CA they need to contain much more precious metals to meet the state standards than they would for just the national requirements. Most automakers choose to standardize on CA emissions standards nationally. > The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is stricter on their regulations. CARB requires more precious metals and rigorous testing which is why they cost more than EPA catalytic converters. https://autoquarterly.com/best-catalytic-converters/#Federal_or_CARB_Converters https://autoquarterly.com/best-catalytic-converters/#Federal...
- ryandrake 7y agoNot only are they required but CA requires $pecific ones with their CARB seal of approval. I had an older car from outside CA that never needed to comply with CA’s rules. When I moved to CA I tried to do the right thing by installing a working cat and tuning my car so it did not pollute. Got it to blow clean as a whistle but the state still failed me because it wasn’t one of their expensive approved devices. Ended up having to sell it out of state because CA labeled my car as “tampered.” You cant win with these guys.
- rini17 7y agoSadly batteries are attractive to thieves, too, to be dismantled to cells and sold. They are just more inconvenient to extract, usually whole car is stolen.
- mehrdadn 7y agoWait, so this also means the sale value of these cars has increased too?
- bitexploder 7y agoNot electric cars.
- kadoban 7y agoNot really by enough to matter unless it's somewhere in the range of being worth more as scrap than as a car. But if that's the case then I'd think so.
- libertine 7y agoIn Portugal it's common practice to remove them on purpose right after it needs to be changed. Why? Because it's cheaper and there's no proper testing/regulation. It's sad.
- tyfon 7y agoDon't you have the "EU-control" every two years to make sure the car doesn't pollute too much? That is the case in Norway at least and we're not even part of the EU fully.
- libertine 7y agoThe machines used to measure emissions don't have the capacity to identify particles that were supposed to be filtered by the particle filter.
- w0mbat 7y agoIn Oakland, where I live, thieves have been targeting old generation 2 Priuses most often. I finally got my 2005 updated for the modern world with a CarPlay stereo and backup camera, and now I have to worry about it getting hacked apart by one of these scumbags in the middle of the night, as happened to my neighbor. They just saw the cat off with a sawzall. The cost of fixing the car afterwards is maybe 10 times the amount of cash the thieves get for the metal, and often more than the car is worth. It’s killing safe low pollution cars that still have years of life in them. Before this all we had to worry about was the hybrid battery failing every 100,000 miles or so.
- throwawy12345 7y agoJust turn your head when you back out lol
- oppositelock 7y agoGo to a local mechanic, and have a protective plate bolted on. The thieves carry just enough tools to cut a catalyst off a typical car. If yours isn't typical, they won't bother with it.
- megablast 7y ago> The cost of fixing the car afterwards is maybe 10 times the amount of cash the thieves get for the metal, and often more than the car is worth. Why should the thieves care about that? > It’s killing safe low pollution cars They are not much better than any other cars. All cars are polluters and killers.