Nissan Titan Catalytic Converter Scrap Price – Big Cat, Big Money?

With an old catalytic converter in your hands, you may be thinking about some additional money to compensate for your big repair bills. To replace a cat converter in the Nissan Titan is not a cheap task. At least, the parts will cost a fortune. But the biggest problem is actually the decision on what you should do with the old converter to get more revenue and cause less harm to nature.

Today, we'll tell you whether you can sell your Nissan Titan catalytic converter for good money. We'll investigate the prices for this thing and will show you some ways to sell it at a better price. Of course, you can get a certain compensation after replacing the cat converters. But remember that the original Nissan catalytic converters (OEM) are valuable and can be sold at good prices.

Here's what we'll be talking about:

1. Nissan Titan cat converters: location and type.
2. How much are usually the OEM Titan converters?
3. Ways to sell your catalytic converters from Nissan Titan.
4. What do recycling companies do with catalytic converters from your Titan?

Let's get started!

What are the types of cat converters in your Nissan Titan?

So, the first generation of the Titan was presented in 2003. In 2016, the second generation arrived. Both generations have the 5.6 gasoline engine as their main powerplant. Also, the second generation has the 5-liter Cummins diesel as an option. These engines have two heads, they are V8. And this means that the Titan may have 2 or four catalytic converters.

The number of the cats depends much on the year of the vehicle and also some other important points. The cat converters from your Titan are going to cost a lot because they are big and heavy, they have a lot of precious metals inside, just like those classic converters from the 1990s that are now bought for insane money.

Here is something you need to know about the Titan cats:

• they are usually taken off the vehicle together with the pipe, but if you install the aftermarket cats instead, you may also cut them off;
• if you have original parts, you will find the serial number and also the Nissan logo on your cats (but diesel cats may have no logos);
• the OEM parts are integrated into the pipe, they aren't welded in it, so this is one more factor to understanding your cat is worth something;
• the original cats are usually not very rusty and not destroyed, they look normal, just like your muffler and some other parts underneath a car;
• these cats and pre-cats (or DPFs) can cost a lot of money if they are sold to a proper company.

The location of the catalytic converters in your Nissan Titan is quite traditional. You will find the converters under your vehicle. If the truck has two converters, they are situated closer to the muffler. If the vehicle has four converters, two of them will be placed very close to the engine. All converters can be sold, although the pre-cats are not so precious.

It's very important to find a proper company that can buy catalytic converters. If you don't know the average price for these things and you don't know who to sell them to, you can be easily fooled by scrapyards and unfair buyers.

What's the average price of Nissan Titan catalytic converters?

These cats may seem big and heavy, so you may expect that they have a lot of grams of precious metals inside. But actually, these catalytic converters are just average. They have about 7 grams of platinum, 5 grams of palladium, and also up to 1.5 grams of rhodium inside. You may know that the price of rhodium is not over $600 per gram.

It's not so easy to take these metals out. Sometimes, companies even fail to do it. So, they can't give you a lot for cat converters. But we believe that getting about $170 for each catalytic converter is possible.

So, the short answer: the average price of a single Nissan Titan catalytic converter should be about $170.

But we also know that it's not guaranteed that you will get this money. The eventual price depends on many factors:

• the year of your vehicle and the serial number on your cat converter;
• the condition of the cat - it's important that it shouldn't be rusty and damaged;
• the current price of the precious metals (platinum, palladium, and rhodium);
• the company that buys your catalytic converters.

So, you can't change the year of your car and you can't write a new serial number on the cat. Also, you can't change the prices of precious metals. But what you can do is choose the company that will buy your catalytic converter. How can you do that? Let's see.

Who to sell your Nissan Titan cat converter to?

Selling a used catalytic converter is not a very simple thing to do. You may know the two most popular ways to do that: scrapyards and eBay (or any similar website). But both have big disadvantages. Scrapyards don't usually pay good money and eBay and any similar websites will make you wait for months until someone is interested in your cat converters.

So, we will offer two different options that are more lucrative and easier for you:

1. Middlemen. Nearly every city and town has some middlemen or resellers who are ready to come to you and give you some cash for the cat converter. They will look at the cat, say the price and you will then agree or disagree. It's very convenient but the prices are not great.
2. Recycling companies. These are the companies that eventually get their hands on nearly all catalytic converters that are sold on the market. They have special equipment to deal with converters. And they will offer the best prices for your cats. If you think that you can only sell a lot of cats to these companies, you are wrong.

We would choose a recycling company for selling a cat converter from a Nissan Titan. One of the best things is that you have a choice. You can quote from different companies and then compare the prices. Let's see how to quote and how to get the maximum price from these recycling companies.

Selling the cats to a recycling company takes a couple of steps:

1. Take the cats off your car.
2. Take pictures of the catalytic converters showing the serial numbers.
3. Send these pictures to the recycling companies.
4. After a day or two, these companies will tell you their offered prices.
5. You will have the opportunity to choose the company.
6. After shipping is completed, you will have money on your account.

It works like that - a very good option for those who want more money and don't want to spend months selling their cat converters on eBay.

One big warning is that the stolen catalytic converters can't be sold with the help of these ways. Please never consider a cat converter theft as a way to make some money. You will probably sell a Nissan Titan catalytic converter for 20 bucks. And this is not worth the risks that you are taking.

What do recycling companies do with cat converters?

The catalytic converters from a Nissan Titan are delivered to a special production site. They are taken apart. The outer metal plates then go to metal scrap and are recycled with all other scrap metal in this company or in a partnering company.

The most precious thing is the ceramic honeycomb. It contains all the precious metals and is the most expensive thing in your catalytic converter.

The process of recycling is quite complicated:

• the ceramic honeycomb is cleaned from any metal parts and other side materials;
• the honeycomb is then put into a furnace at a high temperature;
• during heating, different metals start melting and are gathered into special reservoirs;
• the melted alloys are then separated into different metal types;
• after that, the company sells the metals to different industrial companies.

The process may seem straightforward but it really needs expensive equipment and a lot of energy for heating the honeycomb. So, it costs a lot to recycle catalytic converters. And that is why a recycling company can't pay a thousand for your Nissan Titan cat.

Final words

If you want a good price for your catalytic converter, you should forget about scrapyards, eBay sales, and also middlemen. You should find recycling companies and try to get more money. These companies offer you good prices and quick deals. You will just need to compare their offers and find out who can give you more for a cat.

We also recommend selling a catalytic converter to a licensed recycling company only. This way, you can be sure that the converter will go through all needed stages of recycling and the leftovers won't be just thrown away.