- Type of device (metal or ceramic);
- Countries of origin (Germany, France, USA, Japan or China, RF);
- Car model, engine size, year of manufacture, country of assembly or where it was exported;
- From size: cut from the body, whole or broken, shredded;
- On the purity, degree of contamination of the delivered mass: with asbestos, cotton wool or without;
- From exchange quotations of prices for metals Pt, Pd, Rh and from exchange rates;
- Weights, there are catalytic converters which weight is only 100 grams;
- Duration of operation and its intensity, up to 150 tons of 1/3 of the original;
- On the quality and type of fuel. For example, on gas for 2 years and as a result it is almost empty.
- The price of the first converters unlimited is higher than all subsequent ones, even if they are in the same housing, with the exception of Subaru, on the contrary, the latter is more expensive.
Auto producers are creating more and more sophisticated vehicles to comply with environmental laws. A converters unlimited is a gadget of a vehicle, pointed toward lessening harmful emissions into the environment by diminishing NO and afterburning CO. Most of all precious metals are contained in a ceramic catalytic converter from German cars, such as Opel, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen. The cost for catalytic converters will be approximately one hundred and twenty percent of the average indicated, but it should be taken into account that the converters unlimited from cars released after 2000 will differ significantly in price from the car manufactured before 1997. It should also be taken into account that there is a catalytic converter with a predominance of platinum and a predominance of palladium.
Next in the price range are car converters unlimited from Japanese cars like Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Honda. Their cost ranges from seventy five one hundred and ten percent, followed by the cars of French automakers, the cost of their converters unlimited is seventy to ninety five percent of the nominal. Then, according to the cost there are American cars with sixty to ninety percent, “Koreans” – sixty-eighty five %. The cheapest used car catalytic converters are from Russian-made cars, unless, of course, this is an export option.