If the converter passes, Giant Auto Parts labels it with a part number and date. Too rich of an air-fuel mix, that will kill a converter." "It's really supposed to last the life of the vehicle," he said. Aftermarket converters are required to last two years. The original equipment converters are required to last eight years or 80,000 miles, but Krakauer said under normal conditions, they last much longer. "The quality of the OE converter is vastly superior." "We have yet to have an aftermarket converter pass our test," he said. Those that are tested overwhelmingly pass - about 95%, he said. It's sold to a scrap dealer, and in rare cases sent to one of two locations in the U.S. If an OE converter is obviously damaged, Krakauer's team won't bother to test it. Over the years, he said, it's demonstrated that used original equipment converters perform better than aftermarket converters. Giant Auto Parts built a testing system for used catalytic converters that is more sensitive than E-Check testing equipment. "It was obvious to them that we knew what we were doing," Krakauer said. But Krakauer's technician at the time convinced them his testing regimen met increasingly tough emissions standards and complied with Clean Air Act requirements. " met with the staff there and said, 'We would like to start selling used catalytic converters.' "Īt first, the EPA staffers were skeptical. "We went to the EPA in Michigan," Krakauer said. Environmental Protection Agency, he said. He established that fact three decades ago with the U.S. What he doesn't want or can't use is sold to another sector of the industry, scrap dealers.Īnd people aren't aware that used converters, in accordance with strict regulations, can be reused. He doesn't buy from individuals, getting his parts from purchasing salvage vehicles. People don't understand the salvage business, he said. "If we could have an unlimited supply of converters, we could sell a ton of them." "We do get lots and lots of phone calls from them," Krakauer said Wednesday at his establishment. Will Giant Auto Parts buy a converter off them?
He knows about the troubling increase in converter theft from media reports and he knows more directly from phone calls he receives from individual sellers. More: An exhausting blow to the budget: Catalytic converter thefts increase in Akron area More: A brief history of Akron man's effort to stop the theft of his catalytic converter One that disturbs him - enough to write a letter in support of proposed state legislation - is catalytic converter theft.
Krakauer hasn't been around that long, but he has a few decades behind him at the Tallmadge Avenue location and has seen a lot of changes in his business. His business, the North Hill fixture Giant Auto Parts, has been buying and selling auto parts, salvaging vehicles and servicing them since 1930. Then, there are the parts in boxes on top of boxes with parts. In boxes on the floor, on shelves in the storage area to the left of the front counter, in boxes on those shelves, on top of boxes and in numbered boxes on shelves behind the counter. Modern smartphones allow users to use photos from the web or photographs captured with a phone's camera can be set as a wallpaper.Car parts are everywhere at Art Krakauer's establishment.
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