Catalytic converter recycling

[LaFlavor]

So I have a stock midpipe from the cobra sitting in my garage. From what I understand, there is some value to catalytic converters, due to the platinum inside of them. Does anyone here have any idea what these might be worth, and/or where one might go to recycle them? Just from pestering google, I have seen prices ranging from as little as $20 to as high as $150 per cat. I'd just like a better idea of whether or not there's a better place to take them, and what I should expect when I contact someone.

Thanks in advance.

 

[FordSVTFan]

So I have a stock midpipe from the cobra sitting in my garage. From what I understand, there is some value to catalytic converters, due to the platinum inside of them. Does anyone here have any idea what these might be worth, and/or where one might go to recycle them? Just from pestering google, I have seen prices ranging from as little as $20 to as high as $150 per cat. I'd just like a better idea of whether or not there's a better place to take them, and what I should expect when I contact someone.

Thanks in advance.

Catalytic Converters either use palladium or platinum. But it is just a coating for the ceramic beads that exist in the honeycomb within the Converter. To extract the tiny amount of platinum, if yours has platinum, would be cost prohibitive unless done on an extremely large scale.

 

[LaFlavor]

Catalytic Converters either use palladium or platinum. But it is just a coating for the ceramic beads that exist in the honeycomb within the Converter. To extract the tiny amount of platinum, if yours has platinum, would be cost prohibitive unless done on an extremely large scale.

Yeah, I'm not planning on doing it myself. Just selling it to someone who does it on a large scale.

 

[SID297]

Check with your local salvage yards, they often sell them to a large scale processor.

 

[Monster Mach]

i got payed 130 for my stock midpipe... it was worth it.. i was expecting 90 bucks lmao

 

[LaFlavor]

i got payed 130 for my stock midpipe... it was worth it.. i was expecting 90 bucks lmao

What type of place did you take it to? Was it a salvage yard, or something else?

 

[pho_phizzat]

I have a buddy who does salvage stuff he said he would pay 100 bucks per cat and make 150 per cat but that was almost 2 years ago.


I also remember hearing storys of people getting them stolen off their cars at night. because the theives could make a killing stealing 10 or 12 of them per night with a cordless sawzall and a jack.

 

[LaFlavor]

I have a buddy who does salvage stuff he said he would pay 100 bucks per cat and make 150 per cat but that was almost 2 years ago.


I also remember hearing storys of people getting them stolen off their cars at night. because the theives could make a killing stealing 10 or 12 of them per night with a cordless sawzall and a jack.

Yeah, we had one stolen from the parking lot where I work a couple years ago. Middle of the day, 200+ employees. Ballsy move. If I could get $200 for the pair, I'd be ecstatic.

 

[SVT10TH#1721]

I sold the cats off an old mid pipe from a fox body i had on ebay a year ago for over $100

 

[VirtualSVT]

about 3 years go I took my stock h in and got 75 bucks per cat. Worked out well.