Eastern 40237 Direct Fit Catalytic Converter Fits select: 2000-2005 SUBARU LEGACY, 1999-2005 SUBARU FORESTER

Needed to replace the cat on my Subaru Impreza around 150k miles. Didn't want to spend more money than necessary on an older car, so I bought one of these. Over three years, I had THREE of these catalytic converters fail (CEL, broken catalyst, plugged exhaust), each starting to fail within months (if not weeks) of installing. Fortunately, Eastern Catalytic covered the first two as a warranty, so I'll give them that. However, they wouldn't cover the last one, even though I reported that it was failing TWO WEEKS after I had it installed! They said that there was evidence of fuel burning in the catalyst (even though I had a fuel trim test done). Any car that needs a new catalytic converter has a lot of miles and is not going to run perfectly, short of rebuilding the engine. I had it installed professionally each time, and each time it was broken in per the instructions. After the last failure, I bought a Walker catalytic converter at the recommendation of a mechanic friend. I've been running it for over three years now on the same car with no work and have not had one problem. Save yourself the hassle and don't buy one of these.