Toyota's "Solution" To Catalytic Converter Theft Will Not Stop Theft

I have been a victim of a stolen CAT (2008 Prius). I purchased and had professionally installed a CAT Security Product for the 2008 Prius and for my 2021 Prius. My local auto repair shop installed them for $85 per vehicle. So far, the CAT and the anti- theft device are intact and I am sleeping much better at night

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Mine was stolen at night while 2006 Prius was in the driveway. I had comprehensive insurance and paid out of pocket only $100. However, the inconvenience of no car was far worse. My insurance covered only 30 days of a rental car (which have been in a shortage for some time.) And it took 2 months to get a new cat shipped in, due to high demand. It's about an hour's-ish labor and a $3,000 bill, but 2 months with no car is the real hassle. I am getting a Cat Shield after looking at many options, and now have cameras.

Ours was stolen too so we put the guard over the cat conv. but it makes a lot more noise in the cabin as it basically reflects the noise back up. Easy solution is to ban recycling them removing the demand or require wire transfers to bank accounts for payments leaving a paper trail.

My city's crime prevention officer says the same. It's not like Operation Identification, where engraving made things toxic to fences. What he said was that within days the catalytic converters are beyond recovery in places that don't care where they came from. He didn't quite say painting and etching were useless but said they were way less important than parking in a garage. So we have riveted shields now.

I got my catalytic converter stolen just last week (2010 Prius). It was right before I was planning to sell the car so I just had to end up selling it for way less than originally planned unfortunately. It’s a real problem especially in California. CAT security seems like the most viable option to prevent theft.

I had my cats stolen off of a 2014 Tundra, in a parking garage of a hospital ( I am a cardiac nurse). Dealing with faulty O2 sensors now. Hopefully Toyota will figure out something for a cat that the thieves/MF/worthless pieces of shit, lazy (hopefully your hand will get cut off) (sharia law) won't steal. If not hopefully a car will crush them.
The pricks have no idea (I am sure they don't care) what they have caused. PS, If their family member is having a heart attack, I will ignore the call.

A little over a year ago I had 2 guns pulled on me in my face by the thieves that stole the catalytic converter from my Prius. When it first happened my adrenalin was up there and the gun thing didnt really seem all that bad. But then I told the story put loud and it hit me I could have died for the cost of a catalytic converter. I have since had to spend over 2000 to replace the catalytic converter but I then invested in a plate that Toyota installed over 1000 and this morning I got woken up by thieves cutting off my catalytic converter. So now my catalytic converter is dangling from the under body off my Toyota Prius and will have to pay yet again for a new one and have waisted money on a plate that is suppose to stop or slow them down and it does neither. So with the cost of everything going up and and just the cost to live going up yet we aren't making more I will go indebt so I have a vehicle to get to work to not even be able to pay all the bills to begin with and the little punks that go around causing all this mayhem just make money off of us. Doesn't seem right or fair that the criminals are aloud to stay criminal out walking free continuing to steel and the law abiding citizens get screwed. Where is the justice and god forbid we take the justice into our own hands only the criminals are aloud to commit crimes not the blue collar workers out busting there butts to not even make a dime. It really makes me angry ill tell you that much.