2). Out of academic interest, is there a way of getting a "cat" front pipe off the 300 TDi (with front anti-roll bar) without cutting the pipe or removing half the front suspension?
the "non-cat" pipe will *just* go on in one piece, luckily...
doesn't appear to make any difference to the smnoke. If anything, the smoke once running and warm looks to be less, not more.
Platinum and Iridium or summat similar. There must be a fair value of it as there's a firm here that buys 'dead' cats for enough money for me to bother calling them when I have one.
The catalyst is Platinum. Platinum isn't cheap at about =A3560/troy oz (31 grams). Gold is only =A3300/troy oz...
There are 4 to 5 grams of PGMs in each convertor. PGM =3D Platinum Group= Metals, Platinum, Rhodium, Palladium. The other two aren't particulary cheap either.
Isn't google wonderful? B-)
On or around Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:46:18 +1300, EMB enlightened us thusly:
I knew this was the case for petrol 3-way cats. wasn't sure what was in the diesel one.
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