Catalytic converters are an important part of your car's functioning exhaust system. Here's how they work and why their parts ...

Modern vehicles and the internal combustion engines that power them — well, most of them, that is — have come a long way in recent decades. From inefficient carburetor systems to fuel injection and, ...

Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

Cars are major greenhouse gas emitters. Every year, vehicles worldwide pump out millions of tons of CO2, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and a range of other gasses that contribute to global warming ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even the iconic Oscar Mayer Wienermobile fell victim to catalytic converter bandits earlier this year. Car thefts in general skyrocketed during the pandemic era, exceeding one million models taken ...

Across the country, reported catalytic converter thefts have skyrocketed in the last few years. Annual thefts of the auto part, which is tucked along the exhaust system to turn fumes from a car’s ...

Claims for stolen catalytic converters doubled in the year ending June 2022, according to State Farm, the largest auto insurer in the U.S., whose customers reported more than 43,200 stolen converters ...