Just the words "catalytic converter theft" can make car owners shudder. It's a highly inconvenient issue that's on the rise due to the valuable metals within these critical emissions-control devices.

If your catalytic converter fails, you may be tempted to replace it with a cheap aftermarket model, but here's why that's ...

What Is A Catalytic Converter? A catalytic converter is a portion of your exhaust system designed to reduce emissions. It looks like a small muffler on the outside, but the inside structure is what ...

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, ...

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 ...

It's become a fear many Houstonians have when they leave a vehicle unattended: Is a thief coming to crawl underneath and saw off the catalytic converter? Catalytic converter thefts have soared in ...