Anyone had one stolen ?
My brother hears a noise outside, early hours of Fri morning. peeks though the curtains & there’s a Mondeo parked across his drive, someone in the car & chap by my brothers car, (a 4yr old Kia Sportage). So my brother shouts WTF etc, & theres a shout (in what he first thought was an Eastern European accent) & another chap appears from behing my brothers car carrying what appeared to ba a tank & a hose coming from it. They jump into this Mondeo & off they go before picking up another chap waiting on the corner.
My brother calls the Police & goes out to check the car. Thinking they were stealing fuel but then realises they were actually cutting the cat off the car…!!!
Turns out this tank & pipe was some kind of hydraulic scissor as the exhaust had been literally cut in half. Police told him next day that they had actually chased this car for a good 45 mins but abanodened the chase due to the speeds they were travelling at etc. Eventually finding the car abanodened after scrambling a force helicopter. In the boot about half a dozen stolen cats (not the meowing type obviously). 🙄
Police said its a misconception that they are stealing these cats because of the precious metals inside them, most are actually sold on as spares…
Cue a phone call to Kia & a quote for £300 to replace the exhaust…
Cue a visit to a local exhaust centre who welded the whole mess back up for £30. 🙂