Green Beast Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I finally got the codes to replace the Cats on our 2000 Outback. Who has the best price on Catalytic converters today?? Any help would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bratman2 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 If you can have them welded in I would buy Magnaflow replacement cats. They make dozens of universal models for nearly every application out there. You would be looking at less than a 100 apiece. Try Performance Peddler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I finally got the codes to replace the Cats on our 2000 Outback. Who has the best price on Catalytic converters today?? Any help would be great. go to the dealer you may be covered under the emissions warrenty of ten years 100k miles nipper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAWalker Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Food for thought..............I have gotten alot of feedback about aftermarket cats not fixing the P0420 code on these cars. They will clean up the exhaust but will not always make the computer happy and you will still have the check engine light. Just somthing to think about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Beast Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 We are over the 100K for the warranty work...As far as the Cats I'd like to stick to a factory set up...I've found a few makers on line but thought I'd ask here for feedback before buying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Outback Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Here's a tip to pass the PA emission inspection without replacing the cat. That is if you can live with the CEL light on. I've been doing this for a couple of years. Clear the code and drive the car for a couple of days without taking it out on the highway, or doing highway speeds. All the readiness montitors will reset, except the catalylist efficiency montior. The PA emission inspection law allows for two readiness monitiors not to be set. In this case you won't have the catalyst efficiency monitior set, but that's ok because it's only one of the montiors that is not set. Now your CEL will probably come back on as soon as you take it out the the highway, but you've already passed the test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2X2KOB Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Prior to cat replacement, try a new rear oxygen sensor. It worked for me. Personally I don't believe all these year 2000 cat convertors are crapping out, I think the monitoring system is too sensitive. Please let us know what you do with this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I put a new front ox sensor on my 99 and it got rid of the code. The front one works the hardest so I tried that first. It has been a few months now and no more PO420, I guess I'll see how long this works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannonball Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Prior to cat replacement, try a new rear oxygen sensor. It worked for me. Personally I don't believe all these year 2000 cat convertors are crapping out, I think the monitoring system is too sensitive. Please let us know what you do with this... Another 2000 OBW owner here with the P0420 code. I replaced both sensors at 95,000. The CEL came back on after 115,000. I now have 145,000 on the car and no problems. My CEL comes and goes rather frequently. Meaning it comes and goes with each tank of gas. Luckily we don't have inspections around here anymore. I have to agree that the computer system must be sensitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
friendly_jacek Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 The computer is OK, the problem is that the sulfur in gas, phosphorus and metals in oil (if you burn oil), and crap in some injector cleaners kill cats. This is why we have low sulfur fuel since 2004 and lower additives in oil since 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2X2KOB Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 The computer is OK, the problem is that the sulfur in gas, phosphorus and metals in oil (if you burn oil), and crap in some injector cleaners kill cats.This is why we have low sulfur fuel since 2004 and lower additives in oil since 2005. All right, if that's the case, how come all cars don't exhibit this behavior? The fix of second-to-last resort (right before a new $900 cat): search for "mil eliminator". It's just voltage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Mnay brands of car do have this behavior. My daily driver is a BMW so I always check the BMW boards. Before that I had a Mercedes. Cat problems, PO420, and changing the front ox sensor seems pretty common on a car over 100,000 miles, and many cars don't make that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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