If you're still riding around in your car, which had it's catalytic converter stolen, then you're likely smelling unburnt hydrocarbons in your exhaust, which is what the catalyst is supposed to burn off.
I just got my car back. Like an hour ago. It’s fixed now. What I found out from the mechanic though is that my car has two catalytic converters. It has a cheap one and an expensive one. The cheap one costs like 200 bucks. The expensive one costs somewhere over a thousand. They stole the cheap one cause it’s easy to get to. The expensive one is way up in the car. It would take actual work to get the expensive one and they would damage a lot of shit in the process
Yeah I told you that when you made the post about it. Glad you got it sorted out, it could just be an exhaust leak pre/post cat. Check the welds on the cat, likely it was mig welded. You can tell it's mig welded when it's spotty and blobby AF, most exhaust shops mig weld because it's easier and holds up fine for most exhausts. Pros tig weld, what they call "stacking dimes" is typically what you see when you tig weld, much stronger and higher quality, but requires more preparation, and skill obviously.
Often mig welds leak like a mofo because mechanics are taco niggers that are welding shit blind, because they don't want to remove the exhaust.
Iv had this car 1 year almost to the day. Just payed my third insurance payment. Iv had to have it in the shop once because some nigger pulled out in front of me to beat all the invisible traffic at 11pm. I had the engine go out over a computer update. That was mind blowing. Then my cruise control went out. And this happened. So it averages 3 months before something goes wrong. I’m just wondering what’s next
I’ll check at some point. I’m probably gonna replace the whole thing eventually anyways. I just want it to be like it was and any type of welding isn’t that. I’m not gonna do it till the price of metal goes down. I can buy the muffler and converter piece for 700 then bolt it on. I just got car I want it to be like it’s supposed to be. I know that if I catch a person doing it they better have a weapon on them cause I will and I’m not just gonna call the cops and hope they get there in time
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