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Originally Posted by M-technik-3
The smarter thieves bring the cat's home, take the material out and smelt it down then sell it that way. 80's BMW's had some fantastic cat's the amount of platinum and palladium that were in em made it worth while to scrap metal em. Before E30 prices went through the roof because of drift tax.
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So what is the down-market sale of reconstituted platinum, rhodium and palladium? I doubt the common thief has the equipment at home to smelt the separate metals from the catalytic core. Who buys it? They are industrial metals.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."