Problems with catalytic converters are one of the most common causes of check engine lights, but they’re extremely expensive ...

In a rising wave of automobile catalytic converter thefts that has swept the country, many are wondering what makes these car parts so valuable to roadway robbers and if they might be the next target ...

For more than 30 years the vast majority of vehicles sold in Britain have included an expensive component in the exhaust system — the catalytic converter. This emissions-reducing device has now become ...

After seeing how many people have been affected by catalytic converter thefts, and just how bad the problem has become, an Okanagan man got to work, creating a device that should prevent that very ...

NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with Benjamin Preston of Consumer Reports, about why catalytic converter thefts remain a nationwide problem. An actor who starred in the soap opera "General Hospital" was shot ...

The pollution control devices contain valuable metals, making them a hot commodity for recycling. Some beneficiaries of the thefts look the other way. The innards of a catalytic converter are coated ...

It’s the rough idle no Toyota Prius owner ever wants to hear. When my neighbor heard a “loud, throaty sound” from his otherwise quiet Prius one morning, he knew the catalytic converter had been stolen ...