THEFT PREVENTION CATALYTIC CONVERTER

It's the BAMF tcase skid, you need the other two, as well and exhaust reroute (after the cat). 1/4 steel, great stuff.

https://www.bayareametalfab.com/2005-2021-Toyota-Tacoma-Skid-Trilogy-_p_71.html

 

In yesterday's NY Times

Thieves Nationwide Are Slithering Under Cars, Swiping Catalytic Converters
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/climate/catalytic-converter-theft.html

From about $500 an ounce five years ago, the price of palladium quintupled to hit a record of $2,875 an ounce last year, and is now hovering between $2,000 and $2,500 an ounce, above the price of gold. Rhodium prices have skyrocketed more than 3,000 percent from about $640 an ounce five years ago to a record $21,900 an ounce this year, roughly 12 times the price of gold.

Online, ads abound of scrapyards willing to pay quick cash for catalytic converters. One site advertised payouts of up to $500 for certain foreign models. Older foreign models tend to contain more of the precious metals than newer ones.

Toyota Prius converters also fetch a higher price because their gasoline engines aren’t in as much use, and so it can take longer for the car to burn out the precious metals.

Some Toyota owners, in fact, are demanding that the automaker add anti-theft protections like metal shields to converters to make stealing them more difficult.

Ed Hellwig, a spokesman for Toyota, called catalytic converter theft “an industry-wide challenge” and said the Prius was no more at risk than any other vehicle. He urged owners to “follow the basics to protect their vehicles,” including parking in well-lit areas.

 

https://pgmoftexas.com/pgm-video/

Lots of converters are recycled in San Marcos, TX

 

I just replaced a catalytic converter of a Ford Focus. Nobody wants to go through that, definitely not worth steeling.

 

How much of the cat does this plate cover? Looking to get something like this.

 

All of it.

 

How many catalytic converters does the Tacoma have?

 

Right up there with identity theft and scamming old people. I would be pleased to beat one of these MFr's with a sock full of nickels.

Left/Right/Center, idk I think this would be a nice agenda we could all get on board with.

 

I too have noticed an uptick of cat theft in my area. Early this morning a Prius just a few blocks away got hit! Here's a link to their Ring video: https://neighbors.ring.com/n/82OLl019LO Motivated me to finally clear out the bay in my garage so I can pull the tuck in at night. Man, I hate thieves!

 

https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/...shed-death-by-car/DGANBMJUERBKLNGOOEEW4QHKTQ/

 

I would vote for and even throw in a few bucks to pay for doing it like the Romans:



Link here: LacusCurtius • Roman Laws about Theft (Smith's Dictionary ...penelope.uchicago.edu › Texts › secondary › Furtum

^Long read... my favorite part below:

The strictness of the old law in the case of actions of theft was gradually modified, as already shown. By the law of the Twelve Tables, if theft (furtum) was committed in the night, the thief, if caught in the act, might be killed: and he might also be killed in the daytime, it he was caught in the act and defended himself with any kind of a weapon (telum); if did not so defend himself, he was whipped and became addictus, if a freeman (as above stated) and if a slave, he was whipped and thrown down a precipice. ["precipice" is a steep cliff LOL]​

 

This is what happens when you use harbor freight for your criminal activity. You have to invest in your criminal career with good tools if you want to succeed

 

https://komonews.com/news/local/bellevue-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-stealing-catalytic-converter

Nice to see Bellevue is doing something about property crime.

 

Makes me wonder if cat thefts have created a feedback loop in the cost of these precious metals.
Initial thefts increase demand for replacement cats, which increases demand for the metals to manufacture them, which leads to higher metal prices, which encourages more cat thefts.

edit: found another article that says the spike in the price is due to countries (China most notably) starting to require pollution control devices on cars, so demand for cats has increased globally.

 

I though China was all in on EV's like Germany who want to be fossil free too

 

I've already dealt with that situation before I can get hit. They've been stealing them out of our parking lot at work. Well, they won't get mine!!
Bought the truck on March 13, and on March 14, right after I debadged it, this happened. I bought this URD y-pipe while I was waiting on my truck to be built.
By the way, the truck only has 44 miles on it.

 

It'll get worse in china and India is just as bad. The US has some of the cleanest air in the world. Here's a list of the top 100 most polluted cities in the world. There's a reocuuring theme here.


Gurugram, India
Ghaziabad, India
Faisalabad, Pakistan
Faridabad, India
Bhiwadi, India
Noida, India
Patna, India
Hotan, China
Lucknow, India
Lahore, Pakistan
Delhi, India
Jodhpur, India
Muzaffarpur, India
Varanasi, India
Moradabad, India
Agra, India
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gaya, India
Kashgar, China
Jind, India
Kanpur, India
Singrauli, India
Kolkata, India
Pali, India
Rohtak, India
Mandi Gobindgarh, India
Xingtai Shi, China
Shijiazhuang, China
Ahmedabad, India
Aksu, China
Handan, China
Anyang, China
Baoding, China
Linfen, China
Wujiaqu, China
Xianyang, China
Jaipur, India
Jiaozuo, China
Hengshui Shi, China
Xuzhou, China
Cangzhou Shi, China
Pingdingshan, China
Kaifeng, China
Asansol, India
Howrah, India
Xuchang, China
Zhengzhou, China
Tangshan, China
Puyang, China
Luohe, China
Shangqiu, China
Kabul, Afghanistan
Xinxiang, China
Shihezi, China
Laiwu, China
Nanyang, China
Amritsar, India
Xiangyang, China
Zhumadian, China
Liaocheng, China
Heze, China
Kizilsu, China
Xian, China
Luoyang, China
Yuncheng, China
Jincheng, China
Manama, Bahrain
Urumqi, China
Yangquan, China
Zhoukou, China
Mumbai, India
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Huaibei, China
Weinan, China
Mandideep, India
Talcher, India
Suzhou, China
Zaozhuang, China
Sanmenxia, China
Bozhou, China
Zigong, China
Jalandhar, India
Jingmen, China
Panchkula, India
Turpan, China
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Zibo, China
Taiyuan, China
Langfang, China
Binzhou, China
Hebi, China
Lukavac, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Udaipur, India
Ludhiana, India
Changji, China
Dezhou, China
Huainan, China
Fuyang, China
Kathmandu, Nepal

 

FYI bamf is running a daily deal on their full skid set today! 29% off, great deal if you want some cat protection (among other things).

https://www.bayareametalfab.com/2005-2021-Toyota-Tacoma-Skid-Trilogy-_p_71.html

 

Both sides got grabbed today. Are there two per side, four total? Trying to figure out what I need to order and it looks like there's a cat right off each manifold, then another downstream (which is what they got).