Lakes Rob

Lakes Rob

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A friend of mine has just returned from Manchester where he left his car (not a Landy) parked up while he watched a footy game. When he got back someone had jacked his car up and used a grinder to cut his cat out of the exhaust. Because they hacked it out he must replace the whole exhaust - £1500.00! Fortunately the insurance will pay out, but he's lost his no claims discount. After he told me this I then read in our local paper that the same thing has happened a few times in Cumbria as well. I'm not sure how to guard against this but I'm even more careful where I park now!
 
er...I must admit...

I assumed you hit a cat and needed to poke it out the body and workings :lol:
 
who`s bin out fer a xmas drink then boys..
a cat ffs ... :)

ok, sorry, if it were me, I`d find an old exhaust wiv a cat in it (meeooowwww)
and weld the fcuker back into the system.....


or, buy a cheapo car to park in Manchester
gotta be cheaper then losing yer no claims discount shirley.... :(
 
This crime surprisingly actully happens quite alot, down near me some one went throught a fleet of hired hiluxs on a buiding site bout 15 i think also when i worked for kwick fit would have a different custmer in bout once twice a month, its cause the price of scrap, normaly they only go for new cars cause aftermarket cats arnt worth a bean, the worst affected i seen was a disabled chap they cut his out and was main dealer only £1800 trade price without vat, makes you wounder what this worlds comming to
 
cotton said:
This crime surprisingly actully happens quite alot, down near me some one went throught a fleet of hired hiluxs on a buiding site bout 15 i think also when i worked for kwick fit would have a different custmer in bout once twice a month, its cause the price of scrap, normaly they only go for new cars cause aftermarket cats arnt worth a bean, the worst affected i seen was a disabled chap they cut his out and was main dealer only £1800 trade price without vat, makes you wounder what this worlds comming to
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actually they are worth a bit more than a bean. as they are scrapped for the precious metals inside of them. IIRC they fetch approx £50 scrap. at the last time I looked.
 
I have the easiest solution, cut the cat out yourself, bag your own £50 and replace the section with a length of acro, jobs a goodun :D
 
*£60 for a cat not £50 :)

Happened to me, except my neighbour disturbed them half way through the job.

They don't use grinders though, they use exhaust pipe cutters - takes not time at all, they even do it in Tesco car parks :(
 
I had a complete exhaust nicked off the escort I used to own years ago they had to crawl underneath to unbolt it.................. I had the last laugh though it only cost £36 to replace it and that was where my Dog had a **** every morning :hysterically_laughi:hysterically_laughi
 
Removals01 said:
I had a complete exhaust nicked off the escort I used to own years ago they had to crawl underneath to unbolt it.................. I had the last laugh though it only cost £36 to replace it and that was where my Dog had a **** every morning :hysterically_laughi:hysterically_laughi
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:D
when in need an all that.
probs it was a holday maker..
fekin tourists :)
could never understand resentment to fekin tourists,

till we moved right next to a great beach.... :)
 
my father took my grancha to get an exhaust. It was only when they where fitting it to his morris minor my gancha said "lucky you mate was scraping that car" to the rply "what mate it was a car dumped on estate" my grancha did not speak to my old man for months but still put exhaust on his car:D:D
 
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