When the check-engine light snaps on, it is not a suggestion, it is your car’s way of saying something in the powertrain or ...

Catalytic converters are an important part of your car's functioning exhaust system. Here's how they work and why their parts are so valuable.

A federal jury convicted a 72-year-old California man of selling thousands of stolen catalytic converters for a multi-million dollar profit, the Justice Department announced. George Thomas could serve ...

The Urban Prepper provides tips to prevent catalytic converter theft from your vehicle. Man gropes, attacks store's customers, then female shopper fatally shoots him, authorities say Islamist ...

Thanks to modern fuel injection, the engine computer has extremely precise control over the proportions of the air/fuel mixture inside the cylinders. A countless number of sensors around the car tell ...

Mark Olek holds a replacement catalytic converter at his Economy Muffler shop on University Avenue in St. Paul on Jan. 9, 2020.

Platinum has been considered a precious metal for a couple thousand years now, with folks in both hemispheres using it to show off their conspicuous consumption since about 700 BCE. This is partly ...

Introduced in 1974 by General Motors, catalytic converters were a byproduct of the 1970 Clean Air Act, which aimed at improving air quality in the U.S. by curbing smog emissions that were choking U.S.

(WXIN/WTTV) — An Indiana Congressman has introduced new legislation aiming to cut down on nationwide catalytic converter thefts. Rep. Jim Baird, a Republican from Indiana’s 4th District, introduced ...