“California garage owner designs catalytic converter theft deterrent”

Original article by Dave Ross | KIRO Seattle News Radio | Feb 14, 2022 Original Article Linked Here

“Catalytic converter thefts in Washington are out of control lately, but a California garage owner may have come up with a deterrent.

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“As laid back as I am, I was thinking of slipping a spike strip under the car when I parked just to surprise the thieves,” KIRO Newsradio’s Dave Ross said.

Bill Todd, who owns a garage in Morro Bay, California, has another idea.

“We looked at the current devices that were on the market and, being a smog technician, one of the things I saw was it was pretty difficult to see the catalytic converter once we put the device on to do a smog inspection,” Todd explained. “We were supposed to be able to inspect it. So that was one of the issues I saw.”

“I came up with a design, a stainless steel device that essentially attaches in less than three minutes. I put a video on YouTube showing my son taping me doing it — simple as a 14 millimeter wrench and a three-quarter inch wrench,” he said.”

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