Exceptionally cheap catalytiv converter theft deterrant...

If they select their "fence" carefully, as I suspect many do, then they won't need to worry about engravings at all.

 

are they stealing gen 3?

 

In select US locations they are supposedly blindly stealing from any more modern car.

in Wisconsin it wouldn’t work since everyone runs straight pipes

 

"Generation 3 Prius’s are part of the unfortunate group of cars that are targeted by thieves for the catalytic converters. The difference between these and the earlier gen 1 and gen 2 cars is the cat assembly is cooled by engine coolant and a missing or stolen cat means you cannot operate the vehicle safely without it. "

Is the coolant intended to cool the cat? Or is the cat intended to more quickly bring the coolant up to operating temperature during warmup, as was advertised here when Gen3 was introduced?

Of course, if a fluid line gets cut, we don't want to be pumping most of the engine coolant onto the ground, where it can't cool the engine.

 

it replaced the gen 2 thermos. also reduces emmisions

 

So they cops stop you because yours is painted orange and probably stolen?
If a thief wants it bad enough, the thief will get it. All you can do is make it hard and harder
for them to get it. Unless you rig it in such a way that is will zap and kill them if they try to
steal it. But then you have another problem to worry about.
Hopefully the cover will make them look somewhere else.

 

kill the thief

if this was the goal, maybe it wouldn't take very long before the thieving ended.....or at least the gene pool would improve bit by bit..

 

I'd vastly prefer to make them want to find another career, especially a legal one.

Simply making them move on to other targets, does not benefit the community, it just creates a defensive arms race.

 

Everyone should decide what and how THEY deal with the problem.
I have NO compassion for the thief. They certainly don't have any when they take from others.

Whether they go somewhere else, find a community productive job, or get eliminated.
This is why I stated: "But then you have another problem to worry about. "

 

Wow...

Property more valuable than life. Great position.

+5mpg for posting

 

Wow, criminal more important than victim.

 

Maybe we should steer this thread toward something less controversial....how about religion?