Financial setback for Edmonton daycare following catalytic converter theft
West said the cost to eventually replace the converter will be $6,000. In the meantime, the daycare is renting a smaller bus for $2,600 a month.In Alberta last year, 4,797 catalytic converter thefts were reported. Of those, 2,647 — or 55 per cent — took place in Edmonton, according to the Edmonton Police Service.
“It’s happening every day, everywhere,” Desmond Ross, with Fix Auto downtown, said regarding catalytic converter thefts. “We probably see three to five a week that we’re repairing.”Ross said replacements on personal vehicles can be done fairly quickly at Fix Auto downtown, but added converters for commercial vehicles seem more difficult to find.
“From what I’ve heard, they’re very costly and they’re very difficult to get,” Ross said. “So there could be a downtime of that vehicle and we all know in business, time is money.” In an email, Jon Proskurniak, fleet manager with Denny Andrews Ford Sales said “the supply chain is under tremendous strain, and the catalytic converter problem is not immune to that supply problem.”© 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
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