I lived in Vegas a few years and worked at Enterprise a little under a year....and thats where I learned that theres a big market for these. I worked at a branch in a "ghetto" part of town....it was definitely a lower income area, and in the few months I was there about 8 trucks got hit. It was funny cuz my branch manager got really good cameras put in....and all that basically did was give a HD video of us getting robbed 😂😂😂 If I remember correctly corporate didnt wanna pay for a monitored system...and the manager kinda had to do his thing and also didnt wanna pay for monitoring. Needless to say the monitoring was needed since they didnt seem to be much of a deterrent LOL



I never researched how they did it...but from what i seen on video seems like a pretty simple gig. Im sure the ones I saw were pros...but youd be surprised how in and out they can get....and its Vegas where I was....someone is always awake....but they might be a crackhead or gambling degen too so I guess that didnt help 🤔😂

Meth monkeys will steal anything

They need to bust the buyers and that would slow down the thefts. I mean someone has to buy these things and then extract the metal. And someone else buys it.

Thieves remove the chemical contents from the converter - in the form of small beads if I remember correctly. This material is then sold in mass quantity to someone. There's no regulation or control of that chemical material that's inside, and that's what they are selling. Thieves abandon the converter housings as trash.

Enough scrap platinum for a days worth the meth cost you $1000. Nice. https://www.allstate.com/tr/car-insurance/catalytic-converter-theft.aspx

. Your a little off on this. Rhodium is almost $29,000 an ounce. That’s why the thefts have gotten so bad.

Mine was stolen at the Holinday inn express in Orange at the Bassmaster event. I was parked next to Brandon Lester and John cox and a couple other Toyota reps. The OEM converters on on a 3-6 month backorder. Luckily the Toyota dealer in town got us rolling with some after market stuff.

Toyota dealership off 820 in Hurst gets hit alot on their brand new trucks.

guy buying them on Facebook Marketplace. No wonder there are thefts

Facebook Marketplace

Wow! I did not know this kind of stuff was going on....crazy!!!

I am a Service Director for a Toyota Dealership and can tell you it is a major problem. The cost to replace with factory catalytic convertors can exceed $5,000 and the parts are on a national backorder. We have 21 vehicles down and counting at this time. We are installing a protective plate on all our in stock units. https://www.facebook.com/pg/DesertEagleOffroad/posts/

Sorry but I don't buy the nothing they can do about it carp. The way they sell this stuff makes it fairly easy to identify who the thieves are. At that point it's just a matter of outsmarting a meth head. The powers that be just choose not to deal with crimes like this. It costs the city / county money to investigate and prosecute. Easier to just pretend there is nothing you can do about it and go write speeding tickets. They steal a huge number every single night here in Palestine. It's a major problem.

My Ford dually too, sounds amazing now. Good thing I was being proactive from theft

Its not like a pawn shop. and with there being no burden on buyers to ID, or get sourcing info from sellers (from my understanding) there really is no way to track them. Looking at that facebook posts looks like you can sell to random people who probably dont even care what your name is. I actually didnt know it was that easy! LOL

Im sure they can do sting operations....but id also figure a decent lawyer could get them off since there doesnt seem to be a way to track them. Hearing about the $5000 cost....kinda reminds me of recalls in vehicles (and fight club lol)....in that, whats that dollar amount that is their tipping point to either do something to prevent thefts or start tracking them...both of which cost money. But I gotta figure having to pay out over and over has a tipping point for a company. Im sure soon we will see protective cages and things like that being standard....since that should cost less than having to replace them over and over...or at least youd figure it would.

A battery powered Sawsall will have it off in 30 seconds.