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 Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:42 pm |
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Hi, my lads petrol 1.4 (51 plate) has tonight decided that it wants to play up. It running incredibly lumpy and "grabbing" as though it's struggling to get air. The engine management light is flashing also. I got it home, lifted the bonnet and the exhaust from the manifold was glowing orange!.
Any thoughts/advice/ideas would be grateful
Thanks, Dave.
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:56 pm |
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you can say Bye Bye to your car Catalyst converter,it's clogged,which makes the air flow very poor,and the engine is suffering to breath,so decat it,or get a new one from scrappy,because the brand new one will cost you an arm and leg 
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:59 pm |
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:01 pm |
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Thanks for the speedy reply Timon2210. How easy is it to de-cat? Anything special required?
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:01 pm |
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Thanks for the speedy reply Timon2210. How easy is it to de-cat? Anything special required?
Sorry pressed submit twice!
Thanks Broadblaster, I'll be having a look under the car tomorrow and see whats what. I may go for the de-cat option tho.
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Last edited by dmcwe on Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:07 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:04 pm |
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just a decat pipe needed but fail on the next mot i would just get a new one and have done with it.
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:09 pm |
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| broadblaster wrote: |
| just a decat pipe needed but fail on the next mot i would just get a new one and have done with it. |
Ok, looks like a new cat then!
Thanks again, Dave
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:26 pm |
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| dmcwe wrote: |
| Thanks for the speedy reply Timon2210. How easy is it to de-cat? Anything special required? |
you are most welcome,well it's very easy to de-cat,just a straight pipe instead of the CAT,but as he said,it's illegal 
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:51 pm |
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I had a quick look underneath this morning, I was intending to remove the front part of the exhaust but it requires a deep socket to get the bolts off...I don't have any so it's going to have to wait till after the bank holiday,
Thanks again, Dave.
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:23 pm |
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£60 for a CAT? aye f*** off, it'll last about as long as me if I was in bed with Jessica Alba and Tulisa!
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:27 pm |
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| Lee wrote: |
£60 for a CAT? aye f*** off, it'll last about as long as me if I was in bed with Jessica Alba and Tulisa! |
 did'not say it was a top quality one now did i
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:41 am |
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Well, I changed the cat today and it's still a bag of crap!. Running like s**t. Any other ideas? Coil pack? Is there any reason why that should make the cat get to meltin point?
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:54 pm |
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try to run the car with no CAT,to see how things goes?,and did you got a new CAT for 60£,or a second hand one from scrappy!
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:44 pm |
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New cat £90. I'm thinking coil pack. If all the fuel isn't being burnt (plugs look sooty) and the cat is hot then the fuel is being burnt in the cat..hence nice glowing cat!. .??
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:49 pm |
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so you didn't get the code read?
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