Catalytic converters

there's a fellow here who offers to buy them for the metals. a private sale to someone who needs one for their car would be supply and demand, and how to determine if it's good?

in cali, you can only replace with an oem.

 

Ron, they probably wouldn't even look. Mostly they look for codes. If the replacement cat is professionally done, it shouldn't stand out. CA cars can be recatted with aftermarket, just can't ship the parts to California (or NY, for that matter.) A little road trip to Reno, Ashland or Medford, Vegas, or Kingman, Tucson, or Phoenix (Yumer too) would do the trick.

I had the cat on my 02 done at Midas (I provided the cat.) with parts it came to about $200.

I wouldn't bother with a used cat. If the pipes are okay, a new universal cat will do the trick.

 

I had my cat stolen from my car a couple weeks ago, and saw two other gen1 prius for sale with stolen cats!
The only source for them (for California) is the Toyota dealer, and they are $850 + shipping, for the whole center section with two cats and resonator. I gave one a week before to a friend who had his stolen (I found out later when I wanted it back!).
I actually drove to Nevada to get one I could put on my car for $200 so get the check engine light to go off.

I could use another one, particularly the one that attaches to the manifold, it has a flange that is not easy to find (well, impossible it seems, they only come with the cat, which only comes with the rest of the exhaust..).

 

I just bought a whole prius that runs great for $600.

 

you have seven priuses or seven catalytic converters?

 

I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this, mine are gen 2 tho. I just learn best using an Oklahoma roadmap (aka, reverse engineering) (aka, taking apart the remote control)