NAC..'00 VW Passat 4Motion...$7200 in repairs!!!

[Andrew Duane]

Well, the cats in my '00 A6Q2.8 (the same engine as in the Passat
4Motion) died at about 70K miles. Just under warranty.
Other than these recent cars, I pretty much never seen a cat
fail under normal use.

Hairy green toads from Mars made cobram at juno.com say:
>  Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > My
> > 1991 V8q is still running the original cats.  (How often do these
> > things need to be replaced anyway?)  Certainly not as a function of
> > scatter-effect diagnosis, even at aftermarket prices.
> 
> Did they put a "death chip" in the newer catalytic converters, like they
> now do on inkjet cartridges?  This is the 5th or 6th person I've come
> across whose car has been dealer diagnosed with bad cats, AFTER (some a
> few hundred miles after) the Federal 8 years/80,000 mile emission
> warranty expires.  I smell a rat, the kind that a new cat won't take care
> of.
> 
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> 
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