wife works at night, parked in the hosp parking garage, drove home this morning and it was loud as hell. check engine, vsc and trac lights are all on.

she called a wrecker and when he put in on the bed trailer, saw that the cat is cut

 

Check to see if the hospital had survalience in the garage. Maybe you can get a license plate number? That would be awesome if you could bust them!

 

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the older vehicles that had the precious metal cats on them? This was on the 01' Limited? Wierd, I haven't heard any stolen from a vehilcle so new?

 

Well cat's work because they have a micro layer thin layer of platinum in it. I have never heard if one being stolen though. Maybe that just cause of where I live.

 

I see reports on here all the time, just not on such a new vehicle.

 

Damn thieves!

 

Buddy of mine ahd his stolen off of a 98 runner. I'm a little paranoid because mine hangs below the frame in full view to the world.

 

haha damn man sorry to laugh but ive never herd of them being stolen from a 4 runner. i know that if you can get one off a newer model BMW you can get like 800$ for them.. thats amazing, haha probibly someone just put a hole in theres and didnt want to pay the factory for a new one and found your truck and took yours.... i bet thats what it was...

 

There's been a couple threads on this before, but as for being as new as 2001, that doesn't seem to have been addressed.

 

does some1 sell a test tube I so can keep my cat from being stolen? or at least have it ready when my cat gets stolen, so the truck will not be so loud?

 

whats the test tube for?

 

it replaces the cat so u can either keep ur cat safe & off the truck or wait til ur cat is stolen then put tube in, so it won't be so loud (provides the connection for the exhaust to go thru the muffler). u will get pulled over if ur car sounds like a top fuel dragster, which it will with the cat gone & nothing to connect headers to exhaust.

 

oh haha those test pipes when you said test tube i thought real test tubes

 

Man that sucks...i know a few members from ttora that replaced their forward cat with a magnaflow and added a o2 simulator from urd which keeps the check engine light off.

 

I?ve heard they are mostly stolen by tweekers who sell them at recycle yards for about $10-$20.

I think the pre Tacoma is one of their favorite targets.

I just slid under my taco and put a couple tack welds on each flange. Not 100% theft-proof, but now it?s not just 4 bolts and gone.

 

now they'll just CUT IT OFF

 

This happened to my father-in-law's Tercel. Went to warm up his car one morning and wondered why it sounded so LOUD! Peek underneath and saw no more cat! We had a news here one time about cat. thieves bust. A would-be-buyer tipped the police...

 

Yep, the tweakers sometimes steal the strangest stuff. They steal wiring out of houses, alternators, hot water heaters, and catalytic converters. I'm not too surprised about that. They'll just sell it to get more meth. It's a shame they had to steal yours.

 

Mine got stolen before the 4runner was mine! I needed my wife to test drive it before I could buy it, so I took her to the lot, and she started it up - it sounded like a lawnmower on steroids. So she hops out and shuts the door while we diagnose the problem, and of course the doors are locked when she goes to turn it off. Needless to say, it wasn't a great first impression. Turns out some idiots just unbolted the cat and took off. It got replaced and we bought the rig that day. How's that for a warm & fuzzy story?

 

That's a touching story....