Re: Tegger's 'Teg needs a cat...

Looks like you're in for some custom work regardless...

JT

(Who scoffs at CCs)



Tegger wrote:
> ...because the original has a rust hole in it, which has rendered it
noisy.
> 
> 
> New Honda OEM cats are $1,100, and are discontinued for my car, to boot.
I 
> am therefore reduced to trolling the aftermarket, for which I have a 
> healthy distrust.
> 
> Enquiries at local garages turn up several brands. Good prices all, but
no 
> brands which inspire confidence. Being a twenty first-century kinda guy,
I 
> start looking online. Only to discover those very same sorry brands and
not 
> much else.
> 
> However, I do discover a listing that, at least visually, looks 
> suspiciously like my own OEM cat, here:
> <http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/search/?Ntt=hon1623&N=0&uts=true>
> Check it out. It's a dead-ringer for the OEM cat and lower heat ****eld.
> 
> I had a nice online chat with an sales rep from Auto Parts Warehouse,
the 
> seller of that cat.
> A transcript is linked below. It's interesting reading.
> <http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/misc/apw-hon1623-chat-transcript.txt>
> "John" is me. "Mari" is the APW rep.
> 
> The upshot is that their photo is /highly/ misleading. Deliberately? You

> decide.
> 
> 
>