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It was a difficult day... Turns out a Toyota dealership in Seattle is addressing the supply shortage of cats by welding up their own (or so they claim) with non OEM cats and the wrong resonator!

"A resonators’ sole purpose in life is to change a vehicle’s engine noise before it reaches the muffler for a final decibel reduction." source: What Is A Resonator and Why Should You Care? | The Drive

Below one image shows an invoice that indicates they welded their own pipe. Two others images indicate they're using non-OEM Toyota cats that are not allowed to be used in some CARB states.

Guess desperate times call for desperate measures, but look at the photo below of the exhaust pipe between muffler and resonator, it's more than an inch lower than anything else! Also it lost it's rear right underbelly panel during this repair.

But maddening part is a resonator is all...

Bob Wilson