• @pezhore@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    There’s a question that has always bothered me. Wtf do you do now that you have an obviously stolen, used catalytic converter? Find an unscrupulous junk yard? Take it to a pawn shop?

    • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      They’re sold for scrap. Just gotta go to a scrapyard and say “There was something wrong with mine, I replaced it, here’s the old one I’m selling for scrap.”

      That or extract the previous metals yourself and sell them directly.

      • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        2011 months ago

        Many states now have laws that prevent scrap dealers from buying a catalytic converter without paperwork identifying the vehicle it came from.

    • @catexaminer@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      if you have one, you are “scrapping your own car”, if you have twenty, then you find shady junkyards