Dont throw the cat in the bin..

[markyp130]

This is the last time iam throwing my cat in the bin... I replaced the leaking cat on my car last weekend ,and on monday took it with some rubbish to the local recycling centre. I know old cats are worth something but was having a tidy up and just wanted it gone, But browsing ebay for 406 bits as you do i found a scrap peugeot 406 cat locally for sale and the bidding is already at £40 with £13 delivery . The new cat was only £73 delivered, so as with all cats do throw them in the bin. The ebay listing number is 170598615333 sorry not sure how it place a link!! I will have to ask the kids

[Gary406]

my 406 doesnt have 1

why would some 1 pay that much if there on 70 new

[FarmerPug]

Theres precious metals in a cat.

[Welly]

yeah.......the local tinkers would give you a drink for an old CAT......then it'd be on it's little holiday trip to china

[sirwiggum]

Cats tend to be attached to flexis. Which HDis chew for brekkie when the mounts are shot.

[FarmerPug]

if all our scrap is going to china that means new rovers are made of scrap.

[steve_earwig]

As opposed to made into scrap

[FarmerPug]

instead of turning scrap metal into something useful they make it into scrap again in the form of an outdated rover.

[waue1978]

Or it can get made into things like these:





We've got a 2 foot tall one of these at home.

[sirwiggum]

When I first read the thread title, I thought of this



As for Chinese metal:

Not Rovers, but "Roewes". Actually pronounced "Rong-wei".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roewe

Badge is the same shape as a Rover longboat, but is a checkered design with a lion and an R.

Tata, who own Jag / Land Rover own the name "Rover". Rumours abound that they will use the name as a sub-brand for cheap Jags (similar to the rumour that Pug will use Talbot to sell old 206s and 407s when the 508 arrives).

While not a treehugger, I am a fan of recycling. Don't like wasting anything. Might as well make another car rather than burying it in some landfill.

[Doggy]

my 406 doesnt have 1

Mine doesn't either. following a sympathetic conversion using a large hammer.....

FWIW, the cat element was almost entirely ceramic, having a fine wire screen stuck on the exit end of the honeycomb - this, I imagine was steel or similar, plated with something more pricey. It couldn't have weighed more than an ounce or so.

Think I've got some pics - I'll post them later, if I can find them.

[FarmerPug]

On the throwing stuff out issue, i am guilty of hoarding stuff, that includes the top of broken bolts, broken plastic trim pieces etc, they come in handy some time. I also pulled a box full of switches and plugs out of a skip an electrician had, he said take the stuff. I filed my boot, and now have a whole load of switches and plugs for a house.

But heres a fantastic use for an old engine block:

Imagine that, instead of a normal coffee table where you look at a boring slab of wood, you can look at the piston liners and oil and coolant channels.

[Doggy]

Looks like a bit of play on the big ends.

Said Doggy, anticipating an inclusion in Disco's sig.....

[lozz]

if all our scrap is going to china that means new rovers are made of scrap.

The new rovers are not actualy called rover any more iirc the name is now Rowe theyve re manafactured the 75 over there trendy looking car now it is

[steve_earwig]

Rowe? What does that mean? Why couldn't they call them "Fido" or "Spike"?