#1: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:42 pm ---- 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.
#2: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: Timon2210, Location: PalestinePosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:56 pm ---- 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
#3: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: broadblaster, Location: south coastPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:59 pm ---- if it is the cat gone its not that bad 60 quid www.cats2u.co.uk/produ...s_id=30890
#4: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:01 pm ---- Thanks for the speedy reply Timon2210. How easy is it to de-cat? Anything special required?
#5: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:01 pm ---- Thanks for the speedy reply Timon2210. How easy is it to de-cat? Anything special required?
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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. Last edited by dmcwe on Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:07 pm; edited 1 time in total
#6: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: broadblaster, Location: south coastPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:04 pm ---- just a decat pipe needed but fail on the next mot i would just get a new one and have done with it.
#7: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:09 pm ----
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.
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
#9: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:51 pm ---- 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.
£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
#12: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:41 am ---- 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?
#13: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: Timon2210, Location: PalestinePosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:54 pm ---- 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!
#14: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:44 pm ---- 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!. .??
#15: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: Seabook, Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:49 pm ---- so you didn't get the code read?
#16: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:53 pm ---- Nope!
#17: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: Ash, Location: Running from Ant and Lee and Adam...........Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:07 pm ----
£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!
So it will break before you've even stripped the car.
P.S. Lee. Tulisa. Really? Haven't you seen the video?
Yeah I've seen it. But doesn't change the fact that I think she's amazing lol
#20: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: Seabook, Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:02 pm ---- ideally you need to get the code read otherwise you will have to isolate the problem stepwise....
randomly replacing parts isn't the best practise.
cat glowing red/ overheating indicate high work load on the cat.
could be misfire or running rich.
that means coilpack, injectors, spark plug, O2 sensor or even MAP sensor could play a roll.....
even if the timing belt jump a tooth would cause misfiring.....
you really need to get the code read to narrow down the choices...
£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!
So it will break before you've even stripped the car.
P.S. Lee. Tulisa. Really? Haven't you seen the video?
Yeah I've seen it. But doesn't change the fact that I think she's amazing lol
whe, whe, where was I , car, I can't think straight......I'll be back tomorrow!
this?
#23: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: LeeThr, Location: North West WalesPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:05 pm ---- I had this on my 1.4 a few months back, no power, eml flashing, cat was glowing. stank of fuel, turned out to be the coil pack had packed up.
Cat glowing shows unburnt fuel detonating in the cat causing it to get even hotter than usual.
#24: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:51 am ---- Thanks Lee, that's what I'm thinking. Did you get any fault codes? There's nothing showing on the display say any fault code that's why I'm reluctant to get it read. I do appreciate the input from sea book tho.
#25: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:02 am ----
Seabook wrote:
randomly replacing parts isn't the best practise.
Works for people / garages that havent got a clue
As its a TU lump then the coolant temp sensor which is a know weakness would be the first place I would look.
#28: Re: Engine problem, cat glowing orange hot! Author: dmcwe, Location: under the carPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:45 am ----
LeeThr wrote:
I had this on my 1.4 a few months back, no power, eml flashing, cat was glowing. stank of fuel, turned out to be the coil pack had packed up.
Cat glowing shows unburnt fuel detonating in the cat causing it to get even hotter than usual.
Changed the coil pack and whoo hoo, success!
Thanks everyone.
I had this on my 1.4 a few months back, no power, eml flashing, cat was glowing. stank of fuel, turned out to be the coil pack had packed up.
Cat glowing shows unburnt fuel detonating in the cat causing it to get even hotter than usual.
Changed the coil pack and whoo hoo, success!
Thanks everyone.
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