Thought the muffler was going bad but instead the cataylic converter was coming apart where it was seamed on lower part. Anyone else ever had this problem? Checking tomorrow on cost. It is a 04 with 118,000 miles. The shop said it looks like a bad converter but with 118,000 on it, how could you call this bad.........

 

Well if it's one of the cats that doesn't have a sensor in it then you don't have to replace it. These cars have four cats and you can remove two of them and still pass emissions no problem. Down side to that is the car will be a little louder but it's not a bad loud or obnoxious loud. A new cat will most likely run you about 250-300 for a replacement or you could get a Magnaflow cat for I believe around 350 and it will sound even better but then you should replace all of them if you go that route. Sorry for all the ranting.

 

I beleive if its an emissions related problem, it will be covered under warranty for somewhere around 80k miles? This is a federal law?

 

There was another menber this happened to also, the seam split but is was covered under warranty but emissions warranty is 8/80, you also could take it to a muffler place and see if they could weld the seam back together. Rob at needswings has a nice cat delete pipe set up you might be able to go that route also, just a couple of thoughts.