New $20 cat
 

Last year I replaced my cat with a Walker Direct Fit converter due to a code 67 (P0420). The light's never come back. The cat was $150 shipped free from Amazon and at the time Walker had a $40 rebate, so $110 out-of-pocket. At the junkyard the other day someone told me that metal recyclers will pay for old cats as long as the honeycomb is intact, which mine was. I searched the web and found a place in PA that's paying me $90 for the for my old cat plus they're paying the shipping.

Even w/o a rebate, $60 for a new cat is a pretty good deal.

I thought it was against the law to sell old cats?

Maybe just in California.

Illegal in a few states, not just California.

I think that recyclers can buy used catalytic converters to recycle the metals used in them. You can ask the place that bought your old catalytic converter about the law.

Maybe they are exempt for buying them?

you know I have heard of that.
I should have cut the one off the car I just scrapped as I could have sold it seperatly.

It's Federal law:"http://www.epa.gov/otaq/cert/factshts/catcvrts.pdf"

The law targets reinstallation, not recycling. Recylers remove and crush the honeycomb then take the platinum, palladium and/or rhodium out of it, mostly for reuse in new cats. Platinum costs around $1700 an ounce, which is why a recycler is paying me $90 for my old cat.

With the rash of "Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold" posts lately, I just think it's a pretty good deal to snag a new cat for net $60.

Yes, they want the metal inside the cat.

Heck there are "people" that will steal cat's from cars (mainly trucks since you can get under them quickly with a sawsall) to sell them.

So because of that, there are now companies that sell security "systems" for cat's.

What a wonderful world we live in.......:(