I heard on the news that cats can sell for a good amount of $ on the street but I’m sorry that happened man
I parted out a 2001 F350 with a v10 and the first thing I did was the cat. $350 in about 15 minutes after I placed the ad. The guy who bought it...had his stolen. A new replacement $1100 aftermarket.....$2400 from the dealer.
My wife’s Infiniti needed new upper cats. Since they were the integrated in the manifold style I couldn’t use the universals I bought. I called around. Dealer $1200 each with a $200 core if I didn’t have my old ones so it would of been $1400 each plus tax. So let’s call it $3000 and I kid you not....$1200 EACH to install. So the repair would of been $5400 to replace two cats/manifolds.
I did it in 8 hours split between a Saturday and Sunday. I found a place online that sold me California CARB legal cats for $1300 a pair. I sold my wife’s old cats for $400 to recoup some money.
I’ve seen videos my LEO buddies shows me where it took less than 30 seconds on a vehicle with ground clearance and about a minute on a regular car because they used a jack.
out in San Fernando valley they caught a few guys with 750,000 dollars worth of stolen cats
I offered all my neighbors the opportunity to use my vehicle lift and we can engrave their VIN number on their cars then put stickers diwn low on the rocker panels staring the cars are marked against theft with a vin number. One neighbor had me put his drivers license on there.