Joined
·
236 Posts
Hi Guys
Car is in for an annual service and dealer has finally managed to look at the car (seperate issue but not really happy with service level I have received) and has come back with a huge list of items needing attention, the most significant being that the L/H cat is faulty and needs to be replaced. They are happy to do this for £2250 which strikes me as expensive given that the labour involved can't be huge and Eurospares sell the part for £1200! Not sure if cats have a finite life but car is 5 years old and 26k miles but I would have expected them to last longer than that. Also cats are excluded from the extended 3rd party warranty I have, which seems to be normal for these policies, so that doesn't help either. Dealer take was that they can fail for all manner of reasons, speed bumps, water hitting a hot cat etc etc. Not entirely convinced but suspect I will not get any help from them.
Was then thinking about other options other than simply replacing the faulty cat such as full de-cat but suspect it would not pass the annual emissions test as part of the MOT and I didn't really want to make it significantly louder which I suspect would be a by product. The car is a daily driver and I do also use it for long trips and additional noise would detract from the useability. Also wonder if there would be other issues that might start to effect the ECU etc without them there. Assumed this would be cheepest option but probably not the most practical.
Thought then turned to free flow/sports cats which should still pass emissions but give a better respone. I really have no knowledge of these and don't know if you also have ECU issues or whether the car would effectively not notice. Advice would be gratefully received.
If there is anything I have not considered would be happy to hear about it otherwise any advice gratefully received.
Cheers
Carl
Car is in for an annual service and dealer has finally managed to look at the car (seperate issue but not really happy with service level I have received) and has come back with a huge list of items needing attention, the most significant being that the L/H cat is faulty and needs to be replaced. They are happy to do this for £2250 which strikes me as expensive given that the labour involved can't be huge and Eurospares sell the part for £1200! Not sure if cats have a finite life but car is 5 years old and 26k miles but I would have expected them to last longer than that. Also cats are excluded from the extended 3rd party warranty I have, which seems to be normal for these policies, so that doesn't help either. Dealer take was that they can fail for all manner of reasons, speed bumps, water hitting a hot cat etc etc. Not entirely convinced but suspect I will not get any help from them.
Was then thinking about other options other than simply replacing the faulty cat such as full de-cat but suspect it would not pass the annual emissions test as part of the MOT and I didn't really want to make it significantly louder which I suspect would be a by product. The car is a daily driver and I do also use it for long trips and additional noise would detract from the useability. Also wonder if there would be other issues that might start to effect the ECU etc without them there. Assumed this would be cheepest option but probably not the most practical.
Thought then turned to free flow/sports cats which should still pass emissions but give a better respone. I really have no knowledge of these and don't know if you also have ECU issues or whether the car would effectively not notice. Advice would be gratefully received.
If there is anything I have not considered would be happy to hear about it otherwise any advice gratefully received.
Cheers
Carl