Cat Theft!!!!

Hello Tacomanites,

I live in Houston and the worms of the world are stealing the heck out of Toyota catalytic converters here. I take the park and ride into downtown for work daily and after arriving to the lot after work one afternoon, a fellow rider started up his Tundra and it sounded like an M60 Main Battle Tank. I work for the City of Houston and the vast majority of our fleet Prius have been hit. Are our converters just as easy to snatch up? Looks like they're recessed a bit, but of course if they want it bad enough, it's gone. Has any of you dealt with this or had yours taken. Any good deterrents out there?

Thanks,

 

its definitely a thing on tacomas. there have been threads here recently about it. youre lucky yours wasnt snatched in the lot with that tundra.

 

I wish someone would steal our cat

 

Welcome to the party pal.

 

Skid plates will help protect them.

 

Gonna be honest, I thought someone stole your pet cat and was getting ready to light the torches and grab my pitchfork

 

Cat strap with the sonic alarm kit is what I would do in your situation. The expensive cats are in the engine bay near the headers, but that wouldn't stop a dumb thief from taking the lower cats.

 

Truck lives in a locked garage. So far so good.

 

Get the y pipe and delete the rear cats. If they get my top cats, imma offer them a job.

 

Dude you and me both. Thumbs up on Buckethead btw

 

Heck yeah, I'd trade our cat for just one of the 284 Buckethead pike CDs!

 

Pretty much epidemic proportions here. Mostly at night fro residences. I have a nice motion sensor and hunt over bait.

 

How many you want?

 

Is there any easy solution to prevent theft, welded brace of some sort? or would they just cut through that as well?

 

Sawzall with a carbide bit is damn near unstoppable.

 

There's a guy on FB marketplace here in HI that advertises to buy cats, he's new in town and by the looks of it he used to buy cats back in Maine... It just gives the scum ideas on how to make a few bucks and piss a lot of people off. I guess we are going to be having a problem here soon too.

Friends in Denver say it's a huge problem there along with stealing the spare tyre!

 

Do they cut them off ? Or unbolt it ? If unbolt spot weld them .

 

They generally use a battery powered sawzall.. less then a minute and they are under out and gone.