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

[Tyson Varosyan]

John,

My neck is nice and white, but thanks for asking! I do have 3 high
performance cars of my own, that hardly have an untouched bolt on them and
am a member of a number of car tuner/racing/enthusiast clubs. Prior to last
fall (when I got crazy busy with running my own business), I had at least 4
cars in my driveway every weekend belonging to other people in my clubs that
were there to use my help with this and that on their car. Bottom line, you
sound like the type of guy that wears glasses and pushes papers all day in
some cubical - can you even point out the catalytic converter in your own
car?

Before making arrogant statements about other people, perhaps you should do
some research and read independent studies on the subject matter so that you
yourself do not come across as parrot-like moron repeating something that
you read on a placed ad in a newspaper about how great cats are. Or you
could get some hands-on experience - that works too.

Tyson Varosyan
Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC.
tyson at up-times.com
www.up-times.com
206-715-TECH (8324)

UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime

-----Original Message-----
From: John Larson [mailto:j.d.larson at verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:38 PM
To: tigran at tigran.com; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: NAC..'00 VW Passat 4Motion...$7200 in repairs!!!


Tyson wrote...............  "Catalytic converters are a bunch of crap
anyway! They do not work! Do what many people I know do on all their cars.
Take a hole saw with a long
extension, take out your cat, and drill the thing out. Or get a "Test pipe"
if there is one made for your car. Ether way, nuke the thing."
                                              ............snip..............
....

Interesting, and intensely expressed,  opinion.  Unsupportable, but
interesting.  Lotta people, the kind we call "rednecks", agree with you, I'm
sure.  BTW, Platinum has always been an important part of catalytic
converters ..................

John