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jippy
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BOB failed MOT
« on: Aug 2nd, 2009, 1:05pm » |
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My '97 cossie failed the MOT on emissions. The advice was to to replace both cats 
That 'll cost a lot, I'm afraid.
Can anything else be done? I dont want the car to be scrap yet!
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Tekno
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Re: BOB failed MOT
« Reply #1 on: Aug 2nd, 2009, 3:27pm » |
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Get a universal cat and weld it or pay someone to weld it..
Or get it from scrapyard and hope it's working.
That's how I did for my Granada and it didn't cost too much (50 euros)
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Re: BOB failed MOT
« Reply #2 on: Aug 3rd, 2009, 8:44am » |
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correctly diagnose it first.
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Re: BOB failed MOT
« Reply #3 on: Aug 3rd, 2009, 10:35am » |
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Cats aren't expensive - got one for my old 24v for £70 last year. Fitting can be a pain though.
As already said though, you really need to diagnose it firt and get it on an OBD reader - that will tell you if it the cats (or just one) or the lambda sensors at fault.
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Re: BOB failed MOT
« Reply #4 on: Aug 3rd, 2009, 4:32pm » |
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jippy, can you post CO, HC and lambda reading from the exhaust test?
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Re: BOB failed MOT
« Reply #5 on: Aug 6th, 2009, 9:36am » |
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I change both Cat whit 220€, i order them from UK to Finland.
Same time i change all lambda and them go easy MOT
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Re: BOB failed MOT
« Reply #6 on: Aug 6th, 2009, 11:01am » |
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on Aug 2nd, 2009, 1:05pm, jippy wrote:My '97 cossie failed the MOT on emissions. The advice was to to replace both cats
That 'll cost a lot, I'm afraid.
Can anything else be done? I dont want the car to be scrap yet! |
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As suggested above, get it correctly diagnosed first.
"The advice" was likely a guess
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