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          For Immediate Release


          Contacts:                Jane Ostrander
                                   Media Relations
                                   847 482-5607
                                   jane.ostrander@tenneco-automotive.com

                                   Leslie Hunziker
                                   Investor Relations
                                   847 482-5042
                                   leslie.hunziker@tenneco-automotive.com


     TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE COMMENCES OFFERING OF $300,000,000 IN PLAN TO REPAY
                  CERTAIN AMOUNTS UNDER SENIOR CREDIT FACILITY



Lake Forest, Illinois, May 30, 2003 - Tenneco Automotive Inc. (NYSE: TEN) today
said it had commenced an offering of $300,000,000 of Senior Secured Notes.
Tenneco Automotive plans to use the net proceeds of the offering to prepay
certain term loans under, and a portion of the outstanding balance of the
revolving credit portion of, the Company's existing senior credit facility. The
offering is subject to market and other conditions.

The notes will be senior secured obligations of Tenneco Automotive and will
mature in 2013 with interest payable semi-annually. The notes will be guaranteed
by each of Tenneco Automotive's material domestic wholly-owned subsidiaries. The
notes and guarantees will be secured by a second priority lien, subject to
certain exceptions, on substantially all the assets of Tenneco Automotive and of
the subsidiary guarantors, respectively, that secure obligations under Tenneco
Automotive's senior credit facility.

Tenneco Automotive is offering the notes in reliance upon an exemption from
registration under the Securities Act of 1933 for an offer and sale of
securities that does not involve a public offering. The notes have not been
registered


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under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States
absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration. This news
release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to
buy any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any
jurisdiction in which it would be unlawful.

This news release contains forward-looking statements concerning Tenneco
Automotive's proposed offering. The terms of, and Tenneco Automotive's ability
to complete, such transactions will depend upon prevailing market conditions and
other factors. The forward-looking statements are subject to these and other
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.


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