selling catalytic converters
has a huge dong
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From: v.b.
Re: selling catalytic converters
you are probably buying an aftermarket cat...like from a parts store...they are junk and are worth about 15 bucks....they will have an arrow on them indicating flow direction...they are garbage...for all that are interested in selling to me dend me a pic and i will give you a price...its that easy
Fuckinitupagain
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From: Mechanicsville
Re: selling catalytic converters
Why are you guys trying to find people on here to buy them? You can take them to any place that recycles metal. I've taken all of the ones I got ahold to recycling places and the most I've gotten was $75 for one. I've got 5 more that I'm about to take in.
RIP Chris Schader
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From: Hampton
Re: selling catalytic converters
i have so many cats, i could start a petstore. jk.. my family owns a towing company and i end up junking alot of cars, ill start cutting the cats off if someone will buy them..
superuser
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From: Glen Allen VA
Re: selling catalytic converters
Arrests made in the Central area, too.
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search...7-22-0180.html
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search...7-22-0180.html
The Hanover County Sheriff's Office has arrested three suspects on felony charges in a catalytic converter theft in the Mechanicsville area.
Arrested were Dennis L. King II, 20; Brian W. Parsons, 33; and John P. Penuel, 28; all of the 7300 block of Atlee Road. They face multiple felony charges of larceny, attempted grand larceny and conspiracy. Penuel and Parsons were charged with additional felony offenses on July 15 in connection with the incident.
An officer patrolling in the Atlee Commerce Center off Sliding Hill Road on July 1 observed two people under a parked vehicle at about 10 p.m. They fled when the officer attempted contact. Another officer saw two men getting into a vehicle in a nearby neighborhood. The vehicle was stopped, and King, Parsons and Penuel were arrested.
Arrested were Dennis L. King II, 20; Brian W. Parsons, 33; and John P. Penuel, 28; all of the 7300 block of Atlee Road. They face multiple felony charges of larceny, attempted grand larceny and conspiracy. Penuel and Parsons were charged with additional felony offenses on July 15 in connection with the incident.
An officer patrolling in the Atlee Commerce Center off Sliding Hill Road on July 1 observed two people under a parked vehicle at about 10 p.m. They fled when the officer attempted contact. Another officer saw two men getting into a vehicle in a nearby neighborhood. The vehicle was stopped, and King, Parsons and Penuel were arrested.
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Re: selling catalytic converters
Racetracks
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Re: selling catalytic converters
But there is only a very small amount of it; it's deposited on the surface of a ceramic (or other material) substrate, which is why cats can be poisoned really easily with leaded gas, etc.. Once you cover the thin layer of platinum, it doesn't work any more. You'd waste a lot more money spending time to disassemble the cat and refining the very small amount of platinum than you would actually recover in platinum value.
Racetracks
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Re: selling catalytic converters
The difference in quality between the cheap universal aftermarket ones is that the internal surface area is lower, and the substrates aren't as good (and aren't plated as heavily). Cat design is very dependent on the engine, which is why it is illegal to install aftermarket cats in many states. The cat is designed around engine temp, exhaust flow/velocity, time to operating temp, etc., and is the reason that there are different cats for different engine choices in the same base car. Slap a universal cat on there, and you have no idea of how it will work or if it will ever get up to operating temp. There is a lot of engineering here, and you throw it all out the window for a gamble with a universal setup.
Sure, anything is better than nothing as far as emissions are concerned, but you really don't know what you're getting.