Featured Over 100 catalytic converters stolen from cars in recent weeks

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Actually yes it says you can design a near zero pollution car, but you need $1000 worth (few grams) of rare platinum, which the good news is highly recyclable, and the bad news is highly recyclable.

Prius weaknesses: Of Mice and Men

 

"the smashed Honda sedan that left those skid marks before the driver crashed into a stout sycamore at the southeast corner of Sixth and A streets on the west side of Petaluma. Moments earlier, ambulances had transported the car’s two unidentified occupants to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with injuries that appeared serious, but not life-threatening."

Ah, well, at least these two might be off the streets for a while. But there are others.

 

it is an epidemic in California and the state is not interested in doing anything about it. But then again, either are the manufacturers. They could spot weld.

 

That’s just the problem: if the makers of the aftermarket parts had such data, they could submit it to the California Air Resources Board and get their parts approved, and no legislation would be needed.

Has anyone asked a company such as Walker (Tenneco), which sells CARB-approved catalytic converters for other Toyota models, why they don’t offer a CARB-approved catalytic converter for Prius cars? Since they sell some for Prius cars registered in other U.S. states, I’d hope they have enough test results to meet the “reasonable basis” standard of EPA’s Tampering Enforcement Policy (PDF).

Similar questions could be asked of CARB: can they explain why the aftermarket hasn’t filled this obvious need, especially if Toyota is reportedly unable to meet the demand? Is it just too expensive to run the test program for one model? Would an aftermarket manufacturer need technical data that Toyota doesn’t have to share, such as specifics of how the hybrid system keeps the catalytic converter warm enough to be effective without running the engine continuously? Is there a patent that’s not available to license, or for which the royalties would make an aftermarket product too costly to compete?

It might well be possible to get a legislator interested in this problem, since it’s ongoing and affects many innocent people of modest means, but a solution would probably need CARB’s acquiesence: no politician wants to be on record as having voted against clean air.

 

a few spot welds can be removed with an angle grinder in short order. Rather than bring a Sawzall for the theft, they'd just switch to battery angle grinders. The sooner everybody goes to BEV's, the sooner the cat converter theft will end.

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Have to wonder how much $ they yield from each gen2 cat

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thieves remove your cat then sell it back to you for $1000+ due to failed legal requirements

Aka They are worth more as OEM parts than materials in CARB states

I’ve always been of the mindset that once a car hits some age beyond 10 years old requiring sometimes non-existent OEM parts for a repair/replacement is an excessive hardship which should drive a ban on any such legislative requirement.

 

Yes thats why I don't cash them in, still have to wonder what the scrap value is because I get a few that are plugged up

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A blow torch and an air compressor will “fix” most any failed cat like new

 

i have been watching videos on tube people soaking in this and that but always wondered how they might respond to a good roasting!

is there a thread on this by any chance, i really need to do something about my daughters car it started whistling from the cat on hill climbs lol