Cats saga continued 95 sport 90 q

[Todd & Edith Young]

Of course the dealer will try to steer you away from the aftermarket, that way
they can make their 300% or so profit on selling you "Audi" catalytic
converters. That's all BULLSH*T!

As required by federal law, the guts inside the cat converter are all the same,
there's no magic (at least with older cars, some of the brand new ones coming
off the lot are another story).

I personally bought a replacement cat from Discount Converters and installed it
myself in my 1993 90S, and it bolted right in. I've been running it now for
almost 2 years and have not had ANY problems. I'll be damned if I'm going to
line the pocket of the nearest Audi dealership any more than I absolutely have
too.

If you are really that gulliable that you are going to believe the service
director's line about only using OEM parts, I'm sure there is someone on this
list that would also like to sell you some "oceanfront property in Arizona" (as
the song goes).

John Stanton wrote:

> Thanks to all that responded to original query about new cats.  Question are
> those from http://www.discountconverter.com/converters/ from the OEM or just
> knock offs.  I want to get as close to original as I can w/o paying $1200 a
> piece.  Had an interesting conversation with service dir at dealership who
> was steering me away in favor of using OEM parts.  The units are rattling at
> start up and upon deceleration from time to time.  It is getting annoying at
> this point.  Question is how long before annoying turns into extreme back
> pressure problem?  Anyone ever ream them out, poorly for off road use only?
>
> Thanks all

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Todd & Edith Young
7079 Dawn Ave.
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
651-450-7725