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cat bypass pipe made up
For sure, if I had the time and space to work on it, I’d have gone this route and seen how we got on. As it stood originally, my wife just needed the car back on the road ASAP for work so it was just a scramble to get parts sorted.
Now the question is how to stop it getting nicked again. I was gonna write “cheap cat” on it, but I figure once someone’s under the car after a cat, they’re gonna take whatever’s there regardless.
Tynan’s anti theft paste or similar was one thought, until I realised that any substance as a deterrent would either stink or catch fire as the exhaust heats up!
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lower the car, set the alarm to a more sensitive setting, engrave something on the cat that says "theft tracking number XXXXX, do not buy without proof of ownership" and put a sticker in the window that says "Cat is registered with police". The last one may seem stupid, but if you think about being on the other end of the situation it could be a pretty decent deterrent.
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Now the question is how to stop it getting nicked again.
Pet leopard, trained to sleep under the car.
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Brommers
It's shit that even stuff that is nailed down is fair game to pondlife. I would have been tempted to get a cat bypass pipe made up and then run the rest of the exhaust and then hope it squeezed through another MOT. You're doing it properly though.