CARS.COM — The National Insurance Crime Bureau is clearing the air on the latest trend in car-component theft: catalytic converters. The crime-stats crunchers at Illinois-based NICB examined insurance ...

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A catalytic converter is an integral part of a car’s overall exhaust system. However, while they are normally something a car owner would never think about, thefts of catalytic converters spiked to ...

Getting your catalytic converter stolen is an expensive and annoying tribulation. The converters are important components of the car that transform toxic gasses and pollutants into car exhaust, and ...

While the introduction of new powertrains has transformed which components make up a vehicle, catalytic converters are still used in both hybrid and traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) ...

When the price of precious metals began tumbling late last summer, so too did demand for stolen catalytic converters, the exhaust-cleaning components that can be cut from a vehicle’s undercarriage in ...

Death, taxes and catalytic converter thefts. At Stanford, it is a near-certainty that community members will at some point receive an AlertSU sharing news that a catalytic converter has been stolen.

Thefts of catalytic converters from cars and trucks continue to be a problem in Texas and across the nation. The catalytic converter, which in some cases is as big as a loaf of bread, has been ...

Misfueling a gasoline car with diesel is one of those mistakes that goes from embarrassing to expensive in a matter of ...

The increase in catalytic converter thefts in California has been, in a word, exhausting. Listen to these numbers: in Los Angeles alone, nearly 8,000 catalytic converter components have been stolen — ...

Porsche patent shows that they have a solution for extending the life of the catalytic converter while also reducing ...