Parts containing steel, such as brake drums and panels, are expected to see even larger increases, ranging from 30% to 40%.

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

Catalytic-converter theft exploded because those honeycombs hide platinum, palladium, and rhodium. Hybrids (cooler-running ...

Area police have been reporting thefts of catalytic converters throughout the area, a signal that metal prices are high. The spike in demand for precious metals has made Toyota Prius vehicles that are ...

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 ...

It’s the rough idle no Toyota Prius owner ever wants to hear. When my neighbor heard a “loud, throaty sound” from his otherwise quiet Prius one morning, he knew the catalytic converter had been stolen ...

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The pollution control devices contain valuable metals, making them a hot commodity for recycling. Some beneficiaries of the thefts look the other way. The innards of a catalytic converter are coated ...

Three people pleaded guilty Monday for their role in a US catalytic-converter theft ring. Prosecutors say the operation shipped $600 million worth of stolen catalytic converters. The operation ...

Thefts of catalytic converters are a big deal, especially in California. In San Francisco, criminals are swiping the cats off of cop cars a few hundred feet away from the district attorney’s office.

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