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... |
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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Originally Posted by peterlemonjello
(Post 2483311)
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?
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.... |
Stock cat fails all the time. one of the reason is the higher exhaust temp by Rotary engine.
Meh, u have warranty up to 80K miles. no biggie. I need to have mine check out too. probably sometime next week. |
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