Someone stole the cat from my 90' 4Runner. My wife was in the store and she heard the sales clerk say over the store speaker that something was stolen from underneath a white 4runner with so and so license plate. She called me and I'm thinking they stole the spare. I called my muffler guy and he said the other day the same thing happened to someone else. Obviously I searched this forum and see it is common. It's going to cost me $125 at the muffler shop. The only thing I was pissed at was my wife didn't have the alarm armed, though I don't know if it would have gone off. Luckily they just unbolted it. Just venting.

 

that sucks but $125 dollars ??

 

You can get a magnaflow for like 80 us online.

 

Seems the west coast, philly, chicago area, and NYC have this issue. I implore them to give mine a shot, mostly b/c they will go blind from all the mud dust that will fall on them. Well that and the nice lead pipe I beat them senseless with afterwards.

 

when you get a new one make sure to tack or have someone put the bolts in and put tacks on the thing so you have to grind a tiny bit to get it off, easy theft pertection.

 

They dont unbolt them usually, just take a battery operates sawzall and go at it in short time.

 

I live in northern California and work at the local Toyota dealership. The other day an '05 Tundra came in to get work done. It was loud as hell. I asked the technician working on it why someone would take BOTH their cats off, and he answered that it was a trend lately to hack off people's cats and sell them! That's crazy! So it's going on all over the place. They can steal mine. That'll just give me an excuse to run a straight pipe!

 

btw i have buddies in the exhaust business and they are selling cats as scrap to scrap metal dealers. for 90+ a piece currently so its easy fast money

sucks man im sorry i got an empty one somewhere i think maybe cant remember what i did with it.

 

off topic but hey whatever does anybody remember what company you send your old cat too and they send you money for it because of the platinum because my cat is just sitting in my garage since i free flowed my exhaust.

 

Hahahaha!

Start a new anti-theft trend. THUDS FOR THUGS:First they see mud, then they see stars.

 

any scrap metal dealer or recycler.

 

search on craigslist or post an ad up. They buy that stuff up like candy. The rhodium in them is ~$6000/ounce.

 

I HAVE CAUGHT THE THIEF!!!!!



Feel free to send me $100 via paypal for the information leading to the arrest and conviction of said cat burglar.

 

the muffler shop took mine when I got my exhaust done bastards!!

 

Lots of platinum or something liek taht in 'em. Prices are rising haa

 

Recycler will pay someone esle for anyone who bring them in so thats wonder how thieve strive to steal them occasionally, suck man..

 

Platinum and Rhodium. Rhodium is about 6k, and platinum is about 2500

 

dangit i just throw mine away after ia uncloged it lol wait i mean took it off and put a stock muffler on her lol but the new snorkle sounds better then it should anyways lol

 

What is the world coming to? Someone willing to die for a cat! Crack heads.

 

From reading the thread, I can go buy a new one for 80 then sell it to scrap yard for 90?