No power on hills - help desperately needed

[Kneale Brownson]

If it rattles, it's on the road to failure.  This may explain your lack of
power:  Ceramic materials inside the converter are jamming up your exhaust.

At 03:54 PM 2/7/2005 -0500, films wrote:
>Hey guys,
>
>I just had my Audi at the muffler shop and he pulled the pipes leading
>out of the catalytic converters to check them out.  Both look very clean
>from the back end.  He tapped on each and the larger cat on the left
>side has a definite rattle inside.  He had no way of knowing whether the
>rattle inside was leading to reduced performance and causing my troubles
>so now I'm trying to check around and see if anyone in the area can
>check a cat to see whether it's in working order. 
>
>I'll keep everyone updated.
>
>Thanks again!
>
>Tony
>
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