Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Alan Bucknam’s teenage child started the Toyota 4Runner to drive to school, it sounded like a Harley Davidson revving up. “I figured either the muffler ...

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 ...

The attorney general of Kansas has added catalytic converters to a list of scrap materials whose sale to a dealer must be forwarded to a Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) database. Attorney General ...

When Alan Bucknam’s daughter started the Toyota 4Runner to drive to school, it sounded like a Harley Davidson revving up. “I figured either the muffler fell off or the catalytic converter was taken ...

A catalytic converter is an integral part of a car’s overall exhaust system. However, while they are normally something a car owner would never think about, thefts of catalytic converters spiked to ...

The good news: Catalytic converter thefts have come down considerably since hitting a peak several years ago. Roughly 14,000 converters were stolen in 2024, according to the National Insurance Crime ...

Thefts of catalytic converters continue to climb at an alarming rate, and the pandemic and its resulting economic issues have made their resale value rise even further. Aside from comprehensive ...

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, ...