NCP Car park No1 Birmingham Airport Secure Parking - 'We are not responsible for anything that happens to your car'..
Got off plane after long flight - started car...Sounded like a V8 - looked underneath - cat stolen
Drove home at 11pm at night with no exhaust ..
Insurance wants full excess before any work and it would be a recorded fault claim affecting NCD..
Toyota are not selling cats to garages due to needing them themselves..
Would have to wait to import a cat.. car off road maybe 6 weeks..
Have bought aftermarket from eBay £375 + Lambda £70 - will diy Friday..
Cancelled Insurance claim to keep NC Bonus..
If i wasn't a car builder I would have been well stuffed
Update:
Monday 11.00pm discovered cat stolen..
Tuesday 11.00am ordered eBay equivalent Catalyser..
Wednesday 8am UPS delivered
Fitted up and running 11.30am - cleared engine code - all done..
[Edited on 11/12/19 by johnemms]
Own chassis & Build - First time pass!!
"7's" aren't really "cars", they are 'experiences"
As you say if you weren't a car builder and DIY minded it would be a tru PITA waiting for it to be sorted.
I've not hear of Catalysers being stolen before, but people will steal most things that have a cost and/or availability issue attached to them.
My Dad had a work Ford Transit stolen some years ago. The police found it a few miles away with the front cut off and the engine missing. It appears
it was stolen simply for the engine. Insurance at the time paid out and the thieves weren't to know the engine was pretty well on it's
last legs anyway.
Hope you get your cat fitted and the car up and running OK.
I've always been frustrated by my Saab 9-3 and their decision to put the cat directly under the turbo right in the engine bay. But when I see
things like this I do wonder whether they had the right idea.
I've always been frustrated by my Saab 9-3 and their decision to put the cat directly under the turbo right in the engine bay. But when I see
things like this I do wonder whether they had the right idea.
If the miscreants are armed with a cordless angle grinder I can't see a steel cable defeating them !!!
I've always been frustrated by my Saab 9-3 and their decision to put the cat directly under the turbo right in the engine bay. But when I see
things like this I do wonder whether they had the right idea.
If the miscreants are armed with a cordless angle grinder I can't see a steel cable defeating them !!!
Agreed, an angle grinder would go through the cable as would a set of bolt cutters. I'd imagine the thieves are pretty well tooled and
determined to get the cats.
quote:Originally posted by Nickp
It's a big issue, especially on 4x4 as it's much easier to get at the cat
Wife came out f work about 6 weeks ago. Got in her MX5. Loud exhaust. Yep. Cat stolen.....
Wife was furious. Seriously, not seen her so cross. Ever.
Genuine Cat £800+. Repro £35 upwards, tend to last a few hundred miles as virtually no platinum (hence low cost) but got a genuine used one locally
for £30. However, made a temp decat pipe as thieves often return to have your new cat....
Come MOT time I will fit the "new" one, then go back to a decat. Should be a very quick swap over.
NCP Car park No1 Birmingham Airport Secure Parking - 'We are not responsible for anything that happens to your car'..
Got off plane after long flight - started car...Sounded like a V8 - looked underneath - cat stolen
Drove home at 11pm at night with no exhaust ..
Insurance wants full excess before any work and it would be a recorded fault claim affecting NCD..
Toyota are not selling cats to garages due to needing them themselves..
Would have to wait to import a cat.. car off road maybe 6 weeks..
Have bought aftermarket from eBay £375 + Lambda £70 - will diy Friday..
Cancelled Insurance claim to keep NC Bonus..
If i wasn't a car builder I would have been well stuffed
Update:
Monday 11.00pm discovered cat stolen..
Tuesday 11.00am ordered eBay equivalent Catalyser..
Wednesday 8am UPS delivered
Fitted up and running 11.30am - cleared engine code - all done..
[Edited on 11/12/19 by johnemms]
These people are toe rags and vermin
Just curious though, As it was an NCP car park wasn't there any CCTV there ?
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posted on 11/12/19 at 08:11 PM
"Just curious though, As it was an NCP car park wasn't there any CCTV there ?"
because someone there is in on the scam, also being an airport, and very noisy, its an obvious place to do this type
of criminal damage, I bet they have quite a few go missing there
did you contact the Police?
steve
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
Cat theft is back in fashion again replacing crash for cash as flavour of the month for scum bags. Regarding aftermarket cats the type approved
ones while they don't contain the weight of catalyst of OEM tend to last a few years provided there is no engine fault upstream of the cat that
caused the fail and trigger a P0420.
To test if a replacement cat is any good you can do a Catalyst Reserve Oxygen Test with an OBD2 Dongle that graphs live data.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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quote:Originally posted by ken555
No grinder needed, there is a chain type tool for cutting exhaust pipes
Clamp it on, rotate a few degrees each direction, tighten and repeat.
[Edited on 11-12-19 by ken555]
hat is what I think they used on our car.
I have a friend who works with CCTV stuff. Helped with a case of cat-theft. Bloke pops out the passenger door of a Zafira (reg comes back as a Mini)
and under 2 mins later gets back in with teh cat off a hybrid. About £2k bill for that one....
I think the older MX5 cats fetch £100 or so scrap. Some older Hondas £400ish. But EVERY scrote will know the value and location of each car...
I believe some vehicles now have a plate covering the cat to help prevent theft.
A lot of newer vehicles now have the primary cat close coupled to the exhaust ports --- the cat isn't just part of exhaust manifold it is the
exhaust manifold. It must cost a chunk of power but the cat gets working really fast after start up.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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quote:Originally posted by johnemms NCP Car park No1 Birmingham Airport Secure Parking - 'We are not responsible for anything that happens to your car'..
Aren't they in breach of trade descriptions laws?
If they do actually use the term "Secure Parking", then surely the small claims court is likely to ignore their statement of them not
being "responsible." Either they keep it secure or they are selling a service that they are not providing and you have suffered because of
it.
One of our local garages have had 2 Honda Jazz cars in that have had the cats cut off whilst parked in different park and ride sites, both in the last
week or so.
posted on 11/12/19 at 08:15 AM
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