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Recently purchased a 420 gsi tourer and an 800 turbo with a view to doing an engine swop,both cars were parked outside my premises when some plonker arrived and cut both cats off rendering cars imobile,WHO would want to steal 2nd hand cats off cars that old,420 has 80 000 miles and the 800 has 101 000,cod and chips twice please

they are worth a fair bit scrap value, cash in hand no questions asked,

give a jippo a cat and he can feed his jippo family for a week,
give him a socket set and he can feed his family for life

God!imagine what he would do with a snap on van

Heard about this on the radio, it's becoming fairly common to nick cats.

One reason to get a decat I guess.

Ive heard of fleets of 20-30 vehicles being done in one night its a common theft now.

I've have never heard of that before. And i live in Salford . Whats the world coming too
And to be honest there a pain to get to as there under the car.
Shorely if you see someone under a car a 3 in the morning in raises a few questions.

funny enough my neighbour came over mine last night and asked if id seen anybody hanging around near his car ..when i asked why he said he took his car for an mot and the tester there said some one has been trying to cut off your cat with pipe cutter's wtf is this world coming too? i mean this bloke is in his early 80's and uses the car to get too and from town because he can only walk so far bless him...

looks like im going to have to rig up my security camra again

as said trouble is the scrap value, the average cat is worth £50 scrap, go pinch 6 a night and they have no need to work for a week....

sneaky pikey barstewards. I'm so glad my cat is between manifold and pipe.
I've heard of it happening but not parked outside your f**king house. It's a shame they aren't classed as vermin then we could set to with a slug gun

we have had a few stolefrom the car auction over the last few months but they have only taken 4x4 ones,suppose they are heavier and get more when weighed in. best time to have a de-cat really and keep your cat locked in garage .

I've got half a dozen old cat's in my shed...

Where abouts do I go to 'weigh' them in....? Any old scrap mercahnts?

216si wrote:as said trouble is the scrap value, the average cat is worth £50 scrap, go pinch 6 a night and they have no need to work for a week....

yep very true

jays gsi turbo wrote:we have had a few stolefrom the car auction over the last few months but they have only taken 4x4 ones,suppose they are heavier and get more when weighed in.

More likely that it's easier to get under a 4x4 than a car. Makes lowering a car seem quite sensible as a practical anti-theft measure too.

xuk wrote: It's a shame they aren't classed as vermin then we could set to with a slug gun

Oxford English Dictionary wrote:vermin

• noun treated as pl. 1 wild mammals and birds which are harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or which carry disease. 2 parasitic worms or insects. 3 very unpleasant and destructive people

Sounds to me that they are indeed classed as vermin!

can`t understand how they did it as it was not with a pipe cutter,looks like a hacksaw from the marks but as its in the tunnel you wouldn`t be able to get a hacksaw in,does not look like an angle grinder either,definately saw cuts

Hi,

we had it a few months ago, bodyshop lost a couple of cats (at a replacement cost of over £1k), we got lucky (not that there's many cats on cars we tend to work on ) and only had one pipe cut so just a re-weld job.

Police didn't appear very interested at first but we eventually had them around and they caught some thieving gits the following night on a dealership forecourt.

Cheers

Neil

ttrw2 wrote:I've got half a dozen old cat's in my shed...

Where abouts do I go to 'weigh' them in....? Any old scrap mercahnts?

Its not the weight its the material within them usually about 40-50 for an average one to about 60-70 for a large i.e 4x4

220Si wrote:

ttrw2 wrote:I've got half a dozen old cat's in my shed...

Where abouts do I go to 'weigh' them in....? Any old scrap mercahnts?

Its not the weight its the material within them usually about 40-50 for an average one to about 60-70 for a large i.e 4x4

£58 for a small one
£78 for a medium one
£120 for a big commercial one

but they have to be dealer only cats as the aftermarket ones are only worth £7 as they contain cheaper materials

Hopefully be safe then with the car being slammed, in the garage most nights and have no cat fitted with the sports cat sat on a shelf! Surely the easiest way would be to unbolt them rather than hacking away at it???

This is why I love cars when lowered. Makes it a bit harder for such scum. Sure, they could jack it up... But Im a light sleeper and I dont think they would want to feel the sting of my Black Widow slingshot!

*WHACK*

a lot of people do it round here too, and I've heard they use chain cutters.
Supposedly pretty much silent and very quick.

Gaz, those prices have gone up if you are quoting from EMR
Last week I weighed in a small, a broken 3/4 medium and a large commerical.
I got £64 for the small
£53 for the broken 3/4 medium
and £143 for the commercial.

Seems to be going up and up at that place at the moment.

hay bobby you know what that is UNLUCKY sorry dude i heard they get taken at the airport and heatlands for as they are on stilts so they are very easy to access

Bobbybrown wrote:a lot of people do it round here too, and I've heard they use chain cutters.
Supposedly pretty much silent and very quick.

Gaz, those prices have gone up if you are quoting from EMR
Last week I weighed in a small, a broken 3/4 medium and a large commerical.
I got £64 for the small
£53 for the broken 3/4 medium
and £143 for the commercial.

Seems to be going up and up at that place at the moment.

What???????????????????

where from??????????

got 2 cats sitting here!!!! LOL