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john1dart

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catalitic converters
« on: 29 May 2007, 20:43:35 »
How do you know when the cats are shot on a car? What are the tell tale signs?
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Re: catalitic converters
« Reply #1 on: 29 May 2007, 20:52:32 »
AN MOT failure ticket swiftly followed by a large garage bill  ;)
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Re: catalitic converters
« Reply #2 on: 29 May 2007, 21:19:22 »
On the 2.5 the lambda sensors are before the cats so cat failure shouldn't affect the running of the car at all (unless they're blocked).

Failure should only show up as an emissions problem when you have an MoT.
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Re: catalitic converters
« Reply #3 on: 30 May 2007, 03:32:05 »
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How do you know when the cats are shot on a car? What are the tell tale signs?

  Holes where the bullets went in and out ;D ;D ;D.
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