The catalytic converter on her new 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander was gone and cost $1,000 to replace.
"There was metal pieces laying under the ground underneath," she continued. That was her first clue that something wasn't right. "I started my car and it sounded like a race car," West Palm Beach, Florida theft victim Pamela Beady said.
That's up over 1,100% from two years earlier. "It showed that he had made well over $800,000 in about a year's time just with the receipts we found in the home," Tampa Police Department Officer Greg Noble said.īloomberg reports in 2021, State Farm Insurance paid $62 million in claims for around 32,000 converter thefts. In Tampa, police busted one recycler last year who advertised on social media he was paying cash for converters and seized his paper work. Rhodium is used in converters with palladium and platinum to reduce exhaust gases, but as the rarest metal in the world, it's also valued for jewelry, high-end mirrors and electrical devices. "Certain electric cars that have a high efficiency and high amount of rhodium because of the price of rhodium going up some 1,500% these past few years." "Cars manufactured with a high amount of rhodium thefts, particularly in cars manufactured with a high amount of rhodium, like Prius and others," Chicago Police Superintendent David O.
There's only a gram or two of rhodium inside, but an ounce of the silvery metal can top $15,000. The thieves get as little as $50, but the metals inside include rhodium, which is the rarest metal on earth. Thieves cut the converters out of the car's exhaust systems, then sell them to scrappers, who then sell them again to recycling companies. "You just hear every day or every week somebody in my neighborhood is getting their catalytic converter stolen," Tempe, Arizona motorist Scott Cook said. Our award-winning PVC-u and aluminium windows and doors are consistent in quality, specification and appeal across every market that we supply, designed to meet the most rigorous challenges of Building Regulations as much as the discerning eyes of potential buyers searching for the perfect home for them and their families.It doesn't take long A quick slide under a car and moments later the thief emerges with a catalytic converter stolen for the precious metals inside. We work strictly to budget and deadline and understand the specific logistical requirements of new-build including site-safety and protocols and have the knowledge, experience, systems and capability to supply to site on-time, every time to agreed schedules. We understand the needs of developers and demands placed upon them, from local authorities to home-buyers and all points between. Quickslide has more than 15 years’ experience supplying new build projects, from small developments to multi-home sites. And whilst developers attach more importance now than ever on this detail, we believe that a great deal more can be achieved with the right supply partner, one that can share a deep understanding of the subject. In providing this service we are echoing the importance that established homeowners place on the choice of new windows and doors for their homes. We work with developers and builders to find the right combination of glazed elements for a property, from design and specification to the provision of supporting marketing materials and displays for show homes. The influence that windows and doors can have on the desirability of a property is often underestimated. The windows and doors and other fenestration elements of a property play a great part in defining the character and personality of a home, as well as its performance, and the safety, comfort, convenience and wellbeing of the residents. Quickslide is now regarded as a key supplier of all types of windows and doors, for all applications. The company has also added a full range of casement windows and residential, bi-folding and sliding doors, in PVC-u and aluminium, all manufactured to the same meticulous standards. Since then, Quickslide has developed the vertical sliding sash window in terms of its efficiency, quality of manufacture and authenticity of design. Quickslide is credited with popularising affordable replacements, manufactured on a large scale and using modern materials, with short lead times and national distribution. With an estimated six million homes built using this traditional type of window, the majority of which were installed in normal, modest homes, the choices for the owners to replace poorly performing, failing windows were limited to expensive, largely hand-made timber framed windows that were way beyond most budgets. This inherent instinct towards and commitment to continuous improvement was one of the founding concepts of Quickslide almost 20 years ago, when the owners looked at the market for vertical sliding, box sash windows.
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