Broken Cat

Simon Dean mumbled:

If you can assert in the first sentence that the cat's blocked...then you already know the symptoms, innit!

If you can cruise at 90 them I suggest your exhaust ain't blocked. Perhaps it's just in need of a good service, air filter, new plugs, that sort of thing.

Erm... the symptoms are blocked cat and leaky exhaust. Do you mean to say, "What are the possible causes?"?

blocked...then

plugs, that

Your biggest and most immediate problem is the leaking flange. Carbon Monoxide can easily permeate the vehicle interior and will soon render you incapable. You may drive for miles and not remember where you have been or where you were going. You might later have a blinding headache. This is if you are lucky. Do you feel lucky?

Huw

No. I mean, with this shoddy exhaust as it stands, what how is it likely to change the cars behaviour from normal? ie, is it likely to give it poor acceleration causing me to thrash the engine more than normal?

Essentially, i want to know, if I get a new cat fitted, will the car's responsiveness/acceleration etc be "normal".

Cya Simon

Hrm. I usually have the window rolled down.... but how does CO get inside the car if there's no holes in the floor? Just a question, not really belittling your judgement.

I do feel fairly lucky, but I haven't been on top of things the past few months...

But aside from myself, since the car's more important than me, what kind of engine complaints are attributable to a hole in the exhaust?

Cheers Simon

Typically a broken cat and thence a blocked exhaust system will cause the car to exhibit, in vary degrees of severity lack of power with wider throttle openings and higher revs- i.e. when the engines exhaust gas volume begins to exceed what the exhuast system can remove. At best you might not notice any problem, at worst the engine will only run at tick-over.

Tim..

Simon Dean mumbled:

How the hell do I know...we don't even know for sure it's the cat broken yet. If you reckon you can do 90 then I honestly doubt the exhaust is blocked.

That sounds familiar. Presumably though, with a leak just before the cat, the car has a little bit more power.

I feel a £200 investment coming on.

Cheers Simon

Obviously its not blocked, because there's a hole before the cat :-p

I dont know for sure the cat is blocked. But a mate who works on exhausts told me it was.

Cya Simon