Catalytic Converters?? Possible source of a lot of problems?
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Catalytic Converters?? Possible source of a lot of problems?
My catalytic converter recently went bad, as in it wont go past 6k rpm, it smells horrible and my car is really slow. I have an appointment tomorrow morning at the dealer.
I bought the car used and since day 1 there was always something weird with the exhaust. It sounded weird and it had that fumy smell to it, i just figured it was because it was a rotary. 11,000 miles later though and the cat's cooked.
I also noticed my car started feeling slower and that I was getting worse gas mileage than ever before within the last 2 months or so.
This kind of made me think, I wonder if a lot of people who get excessively crappy mileage, low dyno numbers, etc. are victims of catalytic converters that aren't working optimally?
Just another reason to go midpipe...
I bought the car used and since day 1 there was always something weird with the exhaust. It sounded weird and it had that fumy smell to it, i just figured it was because it was a rotary. 11,000 miles later though and the cat's cooked.
I also noticed my car started feeling slower and that I was getting worse gas mileage than ever before within the last 2 months or so.
This kind of made me think, I wonder if a lot of people who get excessively crappy mileage, low dyno numbers, etc. are victims of catalytic converters that aren't working optimally?
Just another reason to go midpipe...
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Many people have had their cats replaced myself included. In my instance and a lot of times the cat falls victim due to coil & plug failures. How many miles do you have on your set of coils and plugs?
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I learned my coils and plugs are bad. I guess the coils and plugs are the source of the problem then.
61k miles. I think this is like 3 times the usable mileage of the oem coils....
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