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Old 11-02-2007, 02:16 PM
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what kind of cat to buy?

a friend of mine has a 2000 maxima. she needs to replace her catalytic converter. nissan wants a lot of money for one. they quoted her something like $1000 with parts and labor. she doesnt have any aftermarket mods just wants it replaced. should she still get it from nissan or is an aftermarket one like Random Tech a better way to go. unfortunately I don't know much about parts for her max. I have a 97.different gen.
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Old 11-02-2007, 02:50 PM
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no need to buy the expensive nissan one. just get a cheaper aftermarket one.
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Old 11-02-2007, 04:02 PM
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You might want to get some clarification on which converter is bad. If they are quoting 1000 it might be a cali spec car and have 3 converters, one of which they would never diagnose for any reason which leaves the two expensive ones. One is in teh y-pipe and the other is just off the front exhaust manifold. If it is either of the latter 2 then you are kinda screwed in the aftermarket. When my manifold cat went out i was LUCKY to find one from someone for super cheap, but a junkyard may be the best bet if it is one of the two precats.
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Old 11-02-2007, 08:03 PM
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go to a muffler shop and get them to do it

is the car under 100k miles? if so nissan should do it for free
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