Flan wrote:

Funny as I’m reading this and listening to the police scanner, they just put out a bolo for car that stole a cat converter from a BJs wholesale club parking lot. It is currently 20 of 4 on a wed, they are doing this in broad daylight!

Gdetrailer wrote:



X2!

Might stop a casual thief, but those cables don't stand a chance with a determined thief. You added only a couple of seconds for each wire to cut and they will still be done with the job in under 2 minutes.

The extra work you went through most likely will irritate them enough to cause even more damage while under there.. Lots of things they can do like drilling your fuel tank, cutting wires..

If I was going to make it difficult, I would have had a 1/4" steel plate cut to cover the cat and a bunch of 1/2" bolts.. But once again, making it more difficult risks backlash from desperate thieves..

jjj wrote:

My brother moved just recently to Fallon Nevada. Small little town 6 hours north of Las Vegas. While his truck and trailer were in a RV storage lot loaded and ready to go away for the week, when they arrived to leave he started up the truck and the cat was missing. they were unable to go. These thieves are everywhere.

RLS7201 wrote:

My RV sits on it's own full service pad right next to the house.
My CCW qualifying target is posted in plain site, for those that want to own some of my property. It also stopped the neighbor kids from taking a short cut across my yard. MO. law allows me to protect my property as I would protect my life.
Afew years ago my neighbor got robbed at a ATM. As the crook with drew, my neighbor emptied his CCW clip in the bad guy. The county court said good job and closed the case. Now we don't have to spend thousands of dollars a year to house and feed the crook.

Richard

SJ-Chris wrote:



I support your right to protect your property.

You may not feel the need to add the ~$100 worth of protection that I have, but let me ask you a question... Would you prefer....

a) A thief spending 1-2 minutes under your RV stealing your CC with their sawsall and the amount of noise that would make, or

b) A thief needing 3-8 minutes of time underneath your RV trying to steal your CC, and having a 115db alarm blasting to alert you of their presence?

Hope nothing ever gets stolen from you!
Chris

SJ-Chris wrote:



With seemingly an endless supply of easy targets, my hope is that a thief will take one look and move on to another vehicle. They likely crawl underneath a vehicle with just a cordless sawsall in hand as that will do the trick 99% of the time. If they have to fetch another tool from their vehicle (high speed cut-off tool) it adds time. Or, perhaps the cables can be cut with their sawsall in hand. Regardless, it turns their job of cutting just 2 simple and sturdy access spots (right in front of and right behind the cat) into cutting those plus 6-7 more spots (some which require getting above the cat which would be a challenge especially with something as big as a sawsall...I could hardly reach my arm up there to install the cable). All this while a 115db alarm is blasting drawing attention to them.

Yes, given enough time and determination a thief can steal anything. What I have done for less than $100 probably makes it 5x harder for them to remove, 10x more likely they will get caught or scared off by the alarm, and 20x more likely they will simply move on to find an easier target (...at least this is my hope).

Gives me more piece of mind also (which has value). I recently had my RV (prior to this install) parked in front of my home overnight. I couldn't help but worry a little through the night that it (the CC) might not be there in the morning. Now, I'm no longer worried.

If I have any worthwhile incidents (theft, attempted but unsuccessful theft, etc) I'll certainly report back. Let me know if any of you decide to protect you catalytic converter this way. I hope it never happens, but if I ever start up my RV and hear "the rumble" from the exhaust and then I look underneath to see the main pipe(s) have been cut but the cabled cat is still hanging there because the thief gave up or got scared away, I'll be smiling and back on the road quickly.

Good luck all!
Chris

RLS7201 wrote:



None of the above..I prefer a thief 6 foot under. That way we don't have to pay for his trial of pay to house him. If all the theifs were out of service, none of us would have to spend our $$ trying to protect ourselves from them.

Richard

PS: My MH was manufactured without a CC.