Hi guys, I expect this is region specific, but where I live (LA metro), catalytic converters are being cut out at record rates. Last month, six students at my grad school found their CC's had been cut out in a single day (adjacent parking lots). There are even news reports about it. Honestly, till it happened to people I know, I had no idea it was happening at all. But one Google search and I found it's a trend in cities all over the country. I park on the street and in parking lots all the time. It sounds like a pretty expensive repair too.
Wondering why we haven't found a fabricator interested in creating a armored panel to secure our Catalytic converters. It couldn't be that difficult. There is off the shelf armor for everything else. Why not this?
With a vehicle that hasn't change much in 11yrs, you'd think fabbing a prototype for every 5th Gen 4Runner would be slam-dunk easy.
Sure, it could be defeated. But thieves are looking for the easy mark, not the difficult one. Otherwise, those six students I mentioned earlier would have been 60.
Curious if anyone would be interested in finding a fabricator to produce armor for our Catalytic Converters?
Wondering why we haven't found a fabricator interested in creating a armored panel to secure our Catalytic converters. It couldn't be that difficult. There is off the shelf armor for everything else. Why not this?
With a vehicle that hasn't change much in 11yrs, you'd think fabbing a prototype for every 5th Gen 4Runner would be slam-dunk easy.
Sure, it could be defeated. But thieves are looking for the easy mark, not the difficult one. Otherwise, those six students I mentioned earlier would have been 60.
Curious if anyone would be interested in finding a fabricator to produce armor for our Catalytic Converters?
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