How can car owners protect themselves from the wave of catalytic converter theft that has swept the country? Claims for stolen catalytic converters doubled in the year ending June 2022, according to ...

If your vehicle’s catalytic converter was one of 44,000 recently stolen in Washington, Nevada, California, Texas, Oregon or New York, authorities may have arrested the group responsible. Police ...

What is a catalytic converter? According to CARFAX, a catalytic converter cuts back on the pollution that the vehicle creates, changing hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides into oxygen, ...

Thanks to the Clean Air Act of 1970, all cars sold in the US after 1975 must have catalytic converters (cats) installed on them. That means that if you drive a relatively modern car, it should have ...

Cars making loud noises are never a good sign and are a particular hassle when the cause of the noise is a missing catalytic converter. Catalytic converters are regularly targeted car parts, sometimes ...

One recent trend we should thank COVID-19 for is the increasing number of catalytic converter thefts. Let’s see why this happens, which cars are the most vulnerable, and how to protect them. A ...