1.8Gdi stolen cat - help on options please

[clarkey1984]

Originally Posted by Nick45

Clarkey is talking about things like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RSJ90708-...kAAOSwmZFZoeMQ

There are also things like this:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VOLVO-V40...514b1258fd2c2f

Have a word with your local neighbourhood backstreet garage and see if they think they can make it work. Good luck

Exactly that, people throwing numbers anything like 800 quid around for exhaust bits should be charged with attempted extortion.

[theboymike]

Thanks guys and apologies for my delayed response - for some reason the forum would no longer let me post message or send PMs; I've tried contacting one of the mods but over a month later I've had no response

Originally Posted by clarkey1984

An aftermarket cat for a GDI is about 60 pounds on eBay, as long as it drops the emissions so it can pass an MOT it doesn't really matter what make it is, I'm unsure who's quoted you those kind of figures but thats just horrendous.

Indeed. The £800 was for an OEM unit direct from Volvo as it's the only place I can source a type-approved unit.

I appreciate what you're saying about the aftermaket item; however tbh I'm a bit reluctant to gamble the £400ish I reckon it'd cost to source and fit the parts, only to find down the line that it won't pass an MOT.

Originally Posted by SwissXC90

Make sure you report it to the police, and also to your insurance company

Depending on insurance, you may be insured for theft of parts from the vehicle

Thanks - that's been done but tbh I don't think it's worth speaking to the insurance company as I'm likely to get all of £500 back for the car, which the parasites would doubtless have back off me over a couple of years of loaded premiums in the face of my obliterated NCB


Today I've spoken to a local garage who are going to look into it for me (the car's sat outside unmoved since my last posts as tbh the whole thing still makes me sick with rage to think about).

Unfortunately it looks like the writing's on the wall and it'll be going to the scrapper (or maybe someone on here who might break it..?).

Going to be fun trying to source a replacement given the state of the world currently / for the forseeable. The things I could do to the maggots responsible

[canis]

Why don't you buy an MOT failure, and just swap the entire exhaust? Then scrap the new one and keep the car you love.

[theboymike]

Originally Posted by canis

Why don't you buy an MOT failure, and just swap the entire exhaust? Then scrap the new one and keep the car you love.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I hadn't thought of that but I doubt it's viable in practice tbh - I have no facility to do the work myself so it'd effectively be doubling the labour in having to remove the bits from the donor vehicle; plus the hassle of sourcing it / getting it to me / to the garage.

That and the fact that there's a fair bit more than needs doing on the car anyway, so that wouldn't be the only cost. It's taken me long enough but I think I've come to terms with the prospect of scrapping the car.

Tbh I don't really "love" it, it just holds some sentimental attachment, I feel guilty towards the car itself as it's never been treated as it should and I resent it being written off as the result of the greed and selfishness of some waste of skin oxygen thief

[pierremcalpine]

Originally Posted by Nick45

CAT theft is becoming a common occurrence judging by threads on other forums I frequent - not just for scrap either. The rarer items are being stolen and re-sold. See here for more info about preventative bolt on guards etc.. (and a fair bit of righteous anger too!):
https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/212982/stole-cat

Hope you get a decent outcome Mike.

My sister-in-law lives in decent neighborhood in London and on a dark, rainy and thunder filled night someone took a sawzall to their Lexus cat. Beware of noisy storms! They mask the racket from the sawzall nicely, I guess.