BM catalytic converters (any good)

[Vince70]

Now that the car sounds like someone has thrown a bag of spanners into the engine bay due to the cat breaking up I will need a new one sooner rather than later and obviously a main dealer one is out of the question so it's going to be a cheap one or I just turn the stereo up as the garage said not too worry but it's a bit embarrassing when its rattling away at idle at traffic lights etc and it's making the neighbours curtains twitch every time I pull off the drive.

 

Well I've found I can get a cheap cat for under £60 from a company call BM catalysts for my Car it's just a shame it's not a single cam E36 as on Amazon I can get an obsolete old stock one for under £10 by playing with the part numbers but I wondered if anyone has any experience with a cheap BM catalytic converter.

[garbaldy]

Just get a length of wood and hammer a couple of dents in the side that should stop the rattle for a month or so

[Vince70]

Just get a length of wood and hammer a couple of dents in the side that should stop the rattle for a month or so

Knowing my luck I would give it a tap and put a crack in the manifold lol

[DodgeRover]

Just get the £10 one and make it fit, be sure to weigh the old one in they're worth ££££s

[garbaldy]

Just get the £10 one and make it fit, be sure to weigh the old one in they're worth ££££s

This man speaks much truths as I got a whole £7.50 for one

[PhillipM]

If they're anything like the couple I bought a few years ago, they make more fucking noise than the bolloxed ones you take off, welded by blind monkeys with parkinsons.

[sierraman]

You'll find scrapyards aren't interested in buying odd ones of stuff like cats or battery's. If you've got a dozen then yes.

[garbaldy]

The most I've ever had for a cat is £20, sometimes they stick a probe down and give a price other times they go through a book to match up the number.

I don't bother even taking them untill I have ten or so as like sierra man says they don't want to know

[dieselassist]

If you can find a FIAT cat; listed on e-bay/amazon etc or someone breaking a FIAT - with the inlet n outlets similar to your old one, n a similar size, get a FIAT one, n weld/make it fit...

...the garage round the corner from me swear by FIAT cats; they fit them to a lotta 10year n older cars, that have failed the emmissions on the test - they reckon they are the best o/e cat....

[Pillock]

BM Cats were a spinoff from BM Exhausts which were a local exhaust/tyre place to me when I lived in Mansfield. They weren't the cheapest but never had a problem with their exhausts or customer services, and I used to take all my motors there.

 

Not used one of their cats, but unless they've sold out massively they should be OK

[bub2006]

I used to work there 12/13 years back. Good workmanship from what I recall but never bought anything personally

[Vince70]

I bought a BM cat in the end and got it from EBay for £53 with delivery..

I was thinking of buying the one on Amazon which would of needed adapting for £12 but I think the garage would of cursed me if they had to cut and weld the thing up.