Cat stolen

My catalytic converter was stolen at work today. Dealer wants $2477 to replace. Does anyone have a spare they can sell me? 4cyl reg cab pre runner. I will post more later I am on my phone. Thanks guys.

**UPDATE***Here are some pics incase anyone wanted to see. I was lucky enough that a co-worker got a really good description of some guys he saw in the parking lot driving up and down the each row. Of course they had temp tags on the truck. It happened between noon and 4:00pm. I took off early to take my wife out for her birthday and go to start my truck and it sounds like there is a Harley under my truck. I turn it off and knew from reading post about catalytics being stolen what had happened. I look under my truck and confirm. On top of this I also locked my keys in my truck. I have never done that and I am sure I was not think clearly at this point. They took the down stream O2 sensor that was attached but left the upstream. I am going to look over the thread on a deturant plate to try and keep this from happening again. My neighbors son in law is a sales manager at a local Toyota dealership and is going to try and get a discount on the parts. I also called TRDparts4you and is is just over $1500 for the pipe with the converter plus the O2 sensor. The $2477 price quote was with both sensors. My insurance company will cover it but I have to pay my deductable and take time out of my day and move my schedule around. Thank god I can work from home while I get this fixed.

Pic of where the manifold meets the mid pipe.


Plug for missing O2 sensor


Pipe going back to muffler

 

would insurance cover that?

 

how does this happen? sorry that sounds bad

 

dam, sorry to hear that. might want to check the junkyards in your area for one. you get charged 2 grand so someone can get $20 worth of drugs, something does not seem right there

 

fuck the cat. go get some pipe from autozone and just replace where the cat was

 

tell that dealer to F off...the part itself that they want to replace is about 1200 bucks. so they want like a grand to R/R 4 bolts????

go to a muffler shop and have them weld on a high flow cat for about 200 bucks.

You might want to kick the service advisor in the nuts for even offering the service at that price.

 

Buy the Cat
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Go to muffler shop and have the bolt it on .... 50 bucks max...

2k.... Seriously....

 

Man that sucks. I hope they catch and flog the jack-hole that did it to you. Sounds like an idea for a new thread, any good way to secure it somehow?

 

park next to a shark tank, where the sharks have lazers

 

Dude, yeah...just get a normal cat and have it welded in. Maybe a high flow cat even; you might be able to get some performance gain out of it. This might be the best time to do a header mod if there ever was one.

 

go straight pipes!

 

Thanks for the replys. I think I have figured out how to get it fixed on the cheap but still done right. I will take pics and give more details later. Still on my phone.

 

I'm really sorry to hear about your cat being stolen. I am troubled by this disturbing tweaker behavior.

Here is a nice thread from a fellow TW member ph16drive who fabricated a theft deterrent plate for his Tacoma. Check his thread out here: --> My way to stop cat theft

Not only are our tacos a target, but large power utility companies are having to defend their infrastructure from criminals as well.

 

On a four banger there is no cat near the headers.

Damn people stealing the cats for the platinum. How does ones steal a cat, do they hack it off?

 

I fucking hate theives!!!!! I'm so sorry that happened to you man, hope everyting works out okay

 

on a 4 banger???

 

When i saw this I Pictured a little furry kitten being stolen haha
oh well.

 

yep, with a sawzaw

 

Yup, sawzall and about 30 seconds...

the lifted trucks just make it that much easier....

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stupid link keeps screwing up... but the site is www.********.com cat clamp . com no spaces... just trying to get the link to show up

 

A battery powered Sawzall.