Trying to sell a pair of my precats and I am wondering what the price of these could go for is there more of a demand for buying pre-gutted precats? or just selling the precats with all the existing goodness inside of them and letting the buyer do the gutting??


i mean of course the time and labor into gutting them would increase the price so thats what I am thinking. but before i start the hacking wanted to see what you guys thought.

thanks for any cents.

 

Now you are into the wonderful world of marketing. The answer depends on who you are trying to sell them to.

You would most likely be selling to a do-it-yourself person

If the person wants to keep the car in stock form and comply with all emissions laws, then they won't want the gutted versions. I think this is a small percentage of your market. Most people in this thought group would most likely not be do-it-yourselfers and would take the car to a repair shop.

I think the gutted cat option gives you a much larger group of people to sell to. Besides being a do-it-yourself person, they are also looking for some extra performance from their car. You would be proving a product that appeals to them.

Gut them and sell them. Earlier this week there was a poster had a P0420 who could be a buyer for you. Contact him and see.

https://maxima.org/forums/5th-genera...t-4-codes.html

 

I would leave them as they are. There are people who need to replace bad cats but don't want to buy new ones from Ni$$an. If you gut them you're automatically cutting these people out of your customer base.

If someone wants a pair to gut they can gut them themselves. Really, if someone wants to gut cats they can gut their own instead of spending money on something they already have. Why buy a pair to gut when they already have them?

You could always sell them as they are with the option of having you gut them for a small additional fee.

 

I think the price difference between them is so little it doesn't matter. Just sell em not gutted. Let whoever do what they want with them.

 

They're very easy to gut, I'm not convinced anyone would have trouble doing it themselves. Therefore your best bet is to sell them intact. The only time I would sell them gutted is if a salvage yard will buy the guts from you separately.

 

well interesting enough, I bought a pair of precats when I had my originals on my car, this way I could gut them, and hand them to a mechanic to install. this is how I now have my originals intact.
Yes this is what I was thinking, i could probably double the price of selling them gutted because it is a good hour of work, and would be plug and play to someone interested in them.
i am not sure, I saw some numbers for gutted cats, and I paid a cheaper number for intact ones.... so im not sure.
This is true, but again I saw them sold gutted for a higher price than just intact. So I am not sure...

Appreciate everyone's two cents....thanks a lot. maybe I put the offer on the table to gut them for the buyer for an additional price, that is kinda the solution that solves the multiple scenarios.

 

wouldn't gutting the cats cause the ECU to flip it's **** and throw a check engine light since the O2 readings would be all different?

 

um... yes... but that is besides any point near this thread

 

IN my opinion i would sell them intact, if the buyer wants to gut them, then let them do that. Not everyone wants a loud car, some people, like myself want to keep things running the way they are since i just purchased my car, just want to keep up the maintanence. How much would you sell them for?

 

i am in your crowd with keeping quite, and i must say they barely change the loudness of your exhaust especially when used alone w no other exhaust upgrades, it changes more of the tone, not the decibel and volume of the exhuast percieved.

currently i have

gutted cats/ws y-pipe /fast cat /walker b-pipe /SS walker muffler

now with all thatthat it is definately....maybe a few small levels louder, but in the crowd where extra noise is not wanted , it is totally no where near "being loud" still quiet enough for me who never ever wanted to be loud. i am very happy, the tone is nice and deep yet around town and idle etc is not loud at all.

i went to show people the volume of the whole entire new set up and sometimes I feel stupid because people expect it to be louder when i say "i just did my whole exhaust" and only get a little tone difference.

i can post vids if u want but they rarely do justice for anything on the matter, pm me if you wanna talk prices.

 

Still got em?

 

no its been 18 months