Catalysts- Don't You Love 'em?

[J&A]

About to fit a new stainless exhaust, crawled under car to be met by a picture of corrosion run wild! the flange which joins onto the tailpipe has all but disintegrated allowing gases to escape from the joint, evidenced by the ring of soot in the area. By contrast the other flange (Cat to downpipe) seems to be going the same way and leakage is apparent though not on the scale of the other end.

I obviously need a new cat and, seeing as how my '2 is a Rev.3 I'm assuming serviceable s/h ones are scarce- permanent removal not being practical so I'm trying to weigh up my options. Therefore I'd like to know whether anybody knows of a source cheaper than JSP- new or used?

I've also read that people have taken to weighing their old cats in at scrap metal merchants- the prices of their precious metal content having sharply risen recently. has anyone done this and if so how much did you receive? Must be pretty valuable tho- 3 cars recently had their converters removed one lunchtime on our local Sainsburys' car park!! How DO they manage it?

Anyway, as always I'd be really grateful for any help or info regarding this problem.

Thanks.

[blz-8027]

About to fit a new stainless exhaust, crawled under car to be met by a picture of corrosion run wild! the flange which joins onto the tailpipe has all but disintegrated allowing gases to escape from the joint, evidenced by the ring of soot in the area. By contrast the other flange (Cat to downpipe) seems to be going the same way and leakage is apparent though not on the scale of the other end.

I obviously need a new cat and, seeing as how my '2 is a Rev.3 I'm assuming serviceable s/h ones are scarce- permanent removal not being practical so I'm trying to weigh up my options. Therefore I'd like to know whether anybody knows of a source cheaper than JSP- new or used?

I've also read that people have taken to weighing their old cats in at scrap metal merchants- the prices of their precious metal content having sharply risen recently. has anyone done this and if so how much did you receive? Must be pretty valuable tho- 3 cars recently had their converters removed one lunchtime on our local Sainsburys' car park!! How DO they manage it?

Anyway, as always I'd be really grateful for any help or info regarding this problem.

Thanks.

Ive got a rev2turbo cat going?