Miller Cat Protector

are they stealing prime cats too now?

 

Humm, since thieves can't see the protector until they already raised the car and are under the car. Wouldn't they try to cut it anyway? Then how hard is it to cut the stainless steel plate if they can cut the exhaust pipe in such a short time? Unless it takes substantially longer to cut the plate, it may not be much of a deterrent.

 

My stainless steel Miller CatShield arrived yesterday... when the weather clears here I'll pop it on. The kit includes a TS27 security bit.

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Only the rear cat can readily be stolen on Gen 4's. The front cat and egr cooler pipe is part of the exhaust manifold.


You'd also need where to cut out the second cat to prevent coolant from leaking out of the preheater coolant lines,

 

An easy way to add extra security to those security Torx screws is to fill the heads with putty, caulk, drywall compound or some other soft sealant material.

To remove them, even if the thief had the correct security bit, the filler would have to be tediously dug out carefully with a very small flat blade screwdriver, before the screw could be removed.

 

A2 grade 304 stainless steel. They would have to have thought to bring a battery powered angle grinder. The rear accessible to theft catalytic converter won't have as much precious metal as the front one.

Only a rank amateur would want to go to that much trouble to steal one.

 

Might not have so much worry from the rank amateurs... especially if they get crushed to death because they haven't got the sense not to sneak under a car with only a scissor jack between their flesh and 3 tons of Prius.

 

Yeah; From seeing the fluid under the Gen 3, he was so stupid that he cut into the preheater coolant lines like the idiot in this video.

 

I've seen this vid before. CARNAGE. I hope that coolant was still hot and that's why these idiots aborted, so they could flee to lick their burns. Cars are like people's horses or bicycles.... the cat theft enrages me. So many people rely on cars for their livelihoods, esp. with so many doing ride-shares.

 

Want additional security?

Just fill the security screw heads with putty or duct sealant.

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It's tedious to remove. You need to dig it out with a micro flat blade screwdriver.

The duct sealant is very handy for many other uses around the car, the workshop and the home.

 

A 3/8 inch drill bit works very well with 6mm rivet nuts, as the end of the rivet nut that expands will flare out to tighten securely onto the top edge of the hole in the sheet metal. That extra expansion and flaring out against the burred outer section of the hole actually provides a more secure fastening than a close fit of the 25/64 inch drill bit.

The actual Youtube installation video on the MillerCat web site shows the installer using a Unibit type step drill bit that has a 3/8 inch step as the tool used.

 

Yes, right meow.