The Old Car Files: Is this Goodbye?
The days may be numbered on our 2003 Honda Element that we have owned since 2006 when it was just a pup. This is a picture of my actual car, not a stock photo, on a camping trip in 2007, shortly after we got it. It's about the only picture I have of the whole car. Maybe I need to take some more before it is too late. Rust, the cancer of cars, is ready to send it off the great scrapyard in the sky. Or maybe a farm upstate if you prefer. You may recall a post from about a year ago where I dealt with an exhaust hole . Well, the patch job with the JB Weld Exhaust Wrap has failed and I can smell exhaust gas getting into the cabin again when stopped at lights. My first thought was to take the easy way out and just quit stopping at lights. I started doing some research and figured I could put in a cheap catalytic converter and take my original one to a welder to have it fixed properly and then put it back on when the cheap one failed. (An OEM Honda Cat costs $1947.71 at an onlin