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Topic: Merry X-Mas To Me  (Read 4153 times)

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Woke up this morning in great spirits headed out the door to go to the local starbucks for my fix jumped into my 4 Runner started it up to hear an awful exhaust sound. Looked underneath and what do you know, my F-ing catalytic converter is gone!!!!! After doing some research I found that those bastards target Toyota's for the converters because they contain about an 1/8 of an ounce of platinum in them..Just cant wait to find how much its gonna cost to replace.....Damn!!!! :smt013.. What I would give to catch someone under my truck... :smt071
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THAT is F'd up...  :smt013
I've heard about this kind of theft and that Toyota trucks are the #1 targets. Un-fricken-believable.
And yes, it ain't gonna be cheap to replace.
Hope the rest of your Xmas is wonderful enough to eclipse this BS.
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Sorry about your 4runner dude. That sucks so bad. I hope these guys get caught
not by the police but by owners of the vehicles. You know what I mean? I hope
to replace it doesn't cost too much.

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Man, I am so sorry to hear that some punks decided it was worth stealing from such a cool guy, on christmas no less...


So, I decided to get you a small gift, hopefully take the sting out of the situation for you a bit.  I paid for a AOTY entry for you just a few minutes ago and sent a note to Bill that it's for you.


Merry Christmas to you and your family Andy!

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FM,

That is a complete bummer.  Sorry to hear that some scrooges had to put a damper on your Christmas.

And on the flipside, it is nice to know that there are some good guys out there.  That is super cool of Al to do that for you.  Big-ups to you Al.

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Man, I am so sorry to hear that some punks decided it was worth stealing from such a cool guy, on christmas no less...


So, I decided to get you a small gift, hopefully take the sting out of the situation for you a bit.  I paid for a AOTY entry for you just a few minutes ago and sent a note to Bill that it's for you.


Merry Christmas to you and your family Andy!


...Dude that is awsome really appreciated Alain, you know we are going to slay them right?See ya on Saturday, Merry X-mas my man!!!!!...Andy
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So sorry to hear about your 4Runner. I hate thieves with a passion!!!!! But this stoops to a whole new level to do something like this on Xmas.
Al sure showed the true spirit of giving and the TRUE spirit of NCKA.
Way to step up Al. Karma my man, karma!
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go to autopartswarehouse.com

replacement bolt on catalytic convertors arent too bad.



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 :smt011 :smt013 The low-lifes are in full effect :smt011


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Same thing happend to my son in Sac. he had the muffler guy weld re-bar down his pipe so it would a little tougher to steal next time :smt013. He also has a Toyota truck.

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I worked as a manager in Toyota service dpt, and we had a lot of people coming in for that problem..  Same thing happened to my 2000 4runner.  It's now welded on.  Sorry to hear about that.  What year was it?  We actually had a ring or gang from LA coming to bakersfield.  We had 40 stolen off our new vehicles at Toyota one night.
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Andy, that sucks..  happened to a friend twice at BART this year, Tacoma 4x4.

Al, awesome gift, way to turn the thread/situation in a positive direction.


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A new reason to buy American: Nobody wants 'em.


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DUDE! That sucks.
I knew something happened but this is the first time I've read the story.

Time to move away from Salas brother.
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