Meow? (NAC but VAG diagnostics)

[Robert Myers]

So if you think the kitty has a hair ball or something how about just 
disconnecting the exhaust pipe at the downpipe to see if it will run that 
way.  Might diagnose the problem for you if it does run well sans 
exhaust.  Noisy for a while, of course, but it's a test.

At 07:09 PM 4/6/2005, tihol tiholov wrote:

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>Patient: '99 VW NBeetle, 229K kms, 2.0, sparkplugs are about 30K, wires 
>about 4-5 weeks old, both OEM.
>Cold-like symptoms turing into pneumonia - cough, sneeze, sputter, @ 
>initial start smooth idle, then after a couple of seconds misfiring and 
>even stalling, no power, impossible to drive except downhill.
>All this went on and off for a few months, lately progressively worse to 
>almost lethal.
>On Sun used VAG-COM to turn off CEL or MIL, if you will, codes were System 
>too lean and some intermittent misfiring.  Irregular running but was 
>drivable on my 1.5-acre gravel driveway.  Smelled hot like a kitty.  On 
>Mon taking off downhill, made it till the mountain bottom, no power, 
>stopped, trying to drive, CEL blinking and smells like the kitty.
>So, I think, if it smells like a cat ... it gotta be one.  VAG-COM saved 
>random and particular cyl. misfiring - 3 and 4 this time, 2 was there 
>before.  OXS shall be renewed as it's more than 100K but doubt it it would 
>make it so sick.
>
>MAC - on my '88 Typ 89 the kitty was caught plugging before the 200k kms 
>mark by an alert exhaust tech, so no BTDT of my own.
>
>Just wonder what other people's experiences with a  plugging cat 
>were.  Also, anything else to blame the car flue on?
>
>Thanks all and merry spring motoring.
>Tihol
>
>
>TT
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Bob
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