JTK
$100 Site Donor 2025
This is an 8th gen 2.5L equipped Malibu. It's got 98K miles on it, runs like a top and has no exhaust leaks that I can see, feel or hear. This code just started about two weeks ago. Of course it's due for it's PR of NY yearly state inspection this month and won't pass with the MIL lit. A CARB compliant replacement CC is in the $1600 range and this is all you can mail order or have installed in NY. She's not worth throwing ~$2K into just this. I don't know if any of the 'cat clean' products are worth a try, or some spacers for the downstream O2 sensor, but I may be trying both. Pretty thrilled about this.