Bullcrap.
Stolen catalytic converters are sold on black markets in Colorado, California, and other States that don’t allow after market catalytic converters.
They are worth more than the metal content, as they can be sold to theft victims desperate to get their car to pass smog checks and back on the road.
It’s illegal to install a used cat.
So you’re suggesting that the same people that would NOT install an aftermarket cat (because it’s illegal) WOULD install a used OEM cat, even though that is also illegal?
That makes absolutely no sense.
Stolen catalytic converters are sold on black markets in Colorado, California, and other States that don’t allow after market catalytic converters.
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Wrong.
Thieves saw them off of the bottom of a car. There is no way that part is then usable in another car. the palladium, however, is more valuable than gold.