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Originally Posted by Xist
I have watched for good Prius deals for years and have shared many on here. It used to be that I regularly saw them for sale with bad transmissions. I don't know why that changed, but now I usually see them with bad or stolen catalytic converters or bad displays.
Many people claim that you can throw a cheap eBay cat on whatever vehicle, but my Fischer cat started throwing codes again after 2.5 years, and if the CC was stolen they probably damaged a bunch of stuff.
Prii also have especially-expensive cats that are integrated with the rest of the exhaust, so unless you have a muffler shop weld in a new one, it is going to be complicated.
I used to always see Prius drivers going 80 on the freeway. I always figured they were in a hurry to save the world. I always laughed because in Germany I always saw Audis passing everyone.
I feel like almost everyone, Prius and lifted pickup drivers alike, drives 80 in Phoenix.
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There's a reason the aftermarket cats, even the ones designed to fit a Prius, are a tenth the cost of an OEM one. Recently a guy on the Prius Chat forum put on an aftermarket cat and took it to an emissions test and failed. And no, that was not from a visual inspection, it just didn't pass the acceptable levels of pollution in the exhaust.