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Re:Catalytic Converter Theft by throwaway0a5e on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:58AM (#27616313)
>You should have to have the tittle for the car to bring a converter in, since it’s a federal offense to remove them.

If my eyes could roll in a complete circle they would.

Nobody who is parting out cars (resulting in a decent number of legitimately owned cats lying around to scrap) is bringing in the title because cheap junk often changes hands without a title and if not you gave the title to the junkyard in order for them to take the bare shell without you cutting it up.

And how is the scrap yard supposed to figure out which cat matches which title?

(the other guy covered the mechanic use case so I won't)

Re:Catalytic Converter Theft by tabletthrowaway on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:13AM (#27616929)
A potentially less bad idea: circulate a list of known stolen catalytic converters by serial number, and encourage scrappers not to buy them/help find who stole them.

I think this is done with bikes in a lot of places.