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    For Immediate Release


    Contacts:       Jane Ostrander
                    Media Relations
                    847 482-5607
                    jane.ostrander@tenneco-automotive.com
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                    Leslie Hunziker
                    Investor Relations
                    847 482-5042
                    leslie.hunziker@tenneco-automotive.com
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  TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF ITS 2003 ANNUAL STOCKHOLDER MEETING

LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, MAY 14, 2003 - Tenneco Automotive (NYSE: TEN) announced
at its annual meeting yesterday that the company's stockholders re-elected
Charles W. Cramb, M. Kathryn Eickhoff, Mark P. Frissora, Frank E. Macher, Sir
David Plastow, Roger B. Porter, David B. Price, Jr., Dennis G. Severance and
Paul T. Stecko to the company's board of directors. The directors have been
re-elected to serve for a term expiring at the 2004 annual meeting of
stockholders.

Stockholders also ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as
independent public accountants for 2003; and approved a proposal to amend the
Tenneco Automotive, Inc. 2002 Long-Term Incentive Plan to increase the shares of
the company's common stock available for delivery under the plan.

Tenneco Automotive is a $3.5 billion manufacturing company with headquarters in
Lake Forest, Illinois and approximately 19,600 employees worldwide. Tenneco
Automotive is one of the world's largest producers and marketers of ride control
and exhaust systems and products, which are sold under the Monroe(R) and
Walker(R) global brand names. Among its products are Sensa-Trac(R) and Monroe
Reflex(R) shocks and struts, Rancho(R) shock absorbers, Walker(R) Quiet-Flow(R)
mufflers and DynoMax(R) performance exhaust products, and Monroe(R) Clevite(R)
vibration control components.