I'm winding up the process of junking what's left of a parts Excursion that I've been picking apart for the last 4 months. All that's left is really left is crap that's so bent up it's unusable or unsellable. Except for this big-**** catalytic converter. I called around a couple local places and they told me that price would depend on the number stamped on it this thing is pretty crusty, and all I was able to raise was the last three digits, which appear to be RAL. With that, I'm getting some wildly varying quotes.

A place in Vermont (I'm in Indiana) asked me to send a pic, and with that pic, they quoted me $1000- without ever asking for a number. I about soiled my britches, then immediately started to worry about the safety of the cat on my Ex- thinking steel plates, barbed wire, a permanently-attached guard dog...

Anyway, does any of this seem right? The Vermont place appears to do nothing but buy cats, and their reviews seem good enough. How can the quote a crap-your-pants price with just a picture, while local places are quoting $50 to $250 depending on the number? Why do they need the number, but the big dollar guy doesn't? And is there a list of numbers out there for me to try to figure out what I have? Because I've just spent an hour on Google and couldn't find any such list.

 

The little guy is probably selling to a bigger guy who is offloading in bulk to the big guy. You're probably cutting out the middle man. The big Ford converters are some of the most expensive. For a while several years ago guys were rolling under trucks in parking lots and cutting them off. Texas has much stricter scrap sales laws now. You must have ID to sell, refrigerant license to scrap AC components, etc.

 

I have no problem showing my ID, as I'm not doing anything nefarious here and still possess the title and much of the body that's loaded on a trailer, ready to take in (and even have the ASE 609 license to deal with refrigerant if/when I need to). I was just amazed that the Vermont guy is offering a cool grand without caring what the number on the converter is, while the low-paying locals seem to need the number to determine a price.

At this point, I'm mainly interested in finding a chart or something for the numbers. I can't reliably read these numbers I have (maybe) a 7C, then either a 3 or 5, then O, then (maybe) a space, then AB, then maybe a space, then RAL

 

F the numbers, take the money and run LOL!!!

 

Well, the $1000 is an estimate, sight unseen other than the pic I sent. I'm just trying to avoid shipping this thing to Vermont to have them say, oops, the number ain't right, here's 50 bucks. LOL

 

I'm with Nitro, and feel free to share the info for the guy who pays a lot.

I have a couple old cats I been meaning to scrap for a while now.

 

Wasn't sure if I was allowed to share the business or not, but I'll take the chance- it's converterguys.com

It appears they buy old O2 sensors too. Shame I didn't know this before the garbage man came...

 

Have you looked up your current CAT replacement say with the dealer? A valid part number may give you a google image that you can find a number on the CAT ending in the one you have.

 

Do you have the rear windows left from the excursion? I need the plastic piece from the vent window actuator to the vent window (rear passenger side)