Thieves saw precious metals from cars

Posted on 17-06-2014 at 10:10 by CasperH – 22 Comments”

Some thieves have no longer on your whole car, they saw just the precious metals out of your car.

The more and more designs, in particular, to the catalytic converter of your car. This gross violation out of your car sawn because of the precious metals platinum, palladium and rhodium that are. These precious metals help exhaust to clean it so that there are less harmful emissions released.

The precious metals from a catalyst supply on the second hand market at least fifty euros, reports The Standard. Europol (an association of European police forces) noted that there are increasingly catalysts are nicked. This happens especially in cars that are slightly higher of the ground, such as SUVS and minivans. In addition, there were severe nicked at autoslopers.

The gangs travel around and deliver their loot to in German specialized companies that the precious metals out of it. In the meantime, however, there are also crooks who themselves useful enough to the metal out of the door, making detection more difficult. The thefts find, as yet, mainly in France, the United Kingdom and Spain, so be alert when you go on vacation.