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In Seattle thieves are not arrested under the restorative justice mandates thanks to BLM and antifa

Unless where you live has mandatory emissions testing, straight pipe!

True, yet still unbelievable

You can still get a CARB cat convertor shipped to Co. Thought higher priced than a EPA convertor, they are still cheaper than OEM.

Good idea, if your state doesn't check emissions and if the computer in the vehicle will let the vehicle run. I tried that on my truck and it started missing and had no power. Mechanic told me the computer was confused. Put a cat convertor on it and the problem went away.

I simply would not live in such a place, whatever the attractions or advantages. Government exists to protect us and our property. When they refuse to do their job, it’s time to pull up stakes. No doubt you’d be in more trouble than the thieves if you tried to stop them, just like Britain, where it’s illegal to resist criminals and thieves generally get a lecture then released.

We have some areas in WV where theft is rampant, but the police will at least arrest and charge them.

If you're running no cat and have a downstream sensor, you have to install a $10 sensor spacer to turn off the check engine light...

Where my daughter lives is in the center of the square mile of all retail businesses are boarded up at the street level.
When she walks to work, she goes past the homeless tents.
Due to covid, she works from home [a tiny one bedroom condo on the 5th floor].

I like this plan.

You need to get her out of there…

Why ANYONE would subject themselves to live in a crap, drug, and crime infested place full of liberal arseholes is beyond me! There’s absolutely no job worth that. I’m guessing your daughter is the victim of some liberal brainwashing university? Why the hell would she want to stay in a place where your life is less valuable than a welfare moms next fix? I’ve a friend whose daughter is doing the same. She seems to think its some white penitence thing (and I think she likes to party)

Many catalytic converter thieves tend to operate in an organized fashion and 'specialize' in certain types of vehicles and where parked, and when the 'heat' starts getting too intense they back off for a while or else leave the area and start up elsewhere.

Around here they seem to much prefer stealing from business vehicles rather than private, especially box trucks. A little while back the box trucks belonging to Habitat for Humanity in a nearby town, which is located in an area with no private residences nearby, low traffic at night and minimal street lighting, had the catalytic converters stolen off them back-to-back times.

^^^This^^^

She should be able to to work anywhere with an internet connection.

Junkers only paying about $40 a cat here


1. Typical overblown campfire fantasy hype about “thousands”

2. Admittingly, Tenn is a black hole of everything that sucks. Don’t come here.

ain't just Seattle. They steal them daily here in Florida too. Takes very little time, makes almost no noise, yields a big payoff. Another crime and expense created by our government.

Running a battery powered sawzall makes hellified screeching noises on manifolds and pipe i’ve sawn off

How can you say it makes almost no noise?

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/20...-drags-his-body-behind-truck-police-say/


TACOMA, Washington — A man shot and killed someone he caught trying to steal a catalytic converter from his truck in Lakewood, then dragged his body behind the truck to a field and dumped it, police said.

The 54-year-old man was sleeping in his truck Saturday when he woke up about 3:45 a.m. because of loud noises and his truck vibrating. When he looked out, he saw a man halfway beneath his truck apparently trying to steal the catalytic converter.
“He shoots him,” Lt. Chris Lawler said.

The would-be thief tried to get in his own vehicle to leave but was unable to do so because of the gunshot wound.

“The suspect approaches him again and fires at him again,” Lawler said.

The man then used rope to tie the would-be thief to the ball hitch of his truck and dragged him to a nearby field behind some railroad tracks. He untied the body and left, police said.

How on earth did it wake him up?

Mannlicher said the gig was nearly noiseless

Must have been the vibrations



This is getting as stupid as becoming magnetic

Sawzall-ing the exhaust pipe makes a bit of a racket. Cut mine out last year as it was clogged.

Unfortunately small GM cats ain’t worth much. Wouldn’t even cover a cheap flux core welder to fix the pipe.

Just have her buy a Tesla. No cat converter.