[V8] New experience...not welcome, either.

[Tony and Lillie]

Done quite a few converters, both factory (customer cars) and aftermarket 
(mine and several customers). I like the aftermarket ones, simply for the 
price. They are not bolt in, you have to have a mufler shop install them. 
But, it still works out to about $100/converter from my personal experience. 
The factory ones range from about $250 to over $1000 depending on the 
application. They are a direct bolt in, though.

I buy my converters from either Jegs.com or Summitracing.com. Never had any 
issues with any of them, one of them has over 70K of my (hard-redline) miles 
on it with no problems. Oh, btw, you want a three way converter.

I also vote clock spring, done quite a few of those as well.

Tony Hoffman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
To: <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:27 PM
Subject: [V8] New experience...not welcome, either.


> We've been experiencing an increasing amount of drivability issues with my
> wife's 100CS Avant.  The symptoms were loss of power, reluctance to
> downshift and general malaise.
>
> The first time it was reported to me I found the floor mat all coiled up
> underneath the accelerator, and putting the mat back where it should have
> been corrected the problem.
>
> Then it began to happen again, and finally happened when I was driving the
> car.
>
> The diagnosis is a plugged catalytic converter.  That is the first time 
> that
> I have had a converter go bad on any car.  The car has in excess of 
> 135,000
> miles to date, all but the first 39,000 miles are ours.
>
> I am braced for the estimate, which will include finding out why the 
> airbag
> light is on, and I am not looking forward to THAT diagnosis either.  So we
> have so far today, the catalytic converter, an upper rear control arm, an
> oil leak in the front, which may be the valve cover gaskets, and the
> mysterious airbag issue, which is either a wire broken or the airbag
> controller itself.  Also the switch on the top of the transmission that
> controls the backup lights is out, and the Audi part new is $400...we will
> NOT be buying a new Audi part for that, of course.
>
> Anyone on this list done catalytic converters before?  OUCH!
>
> Roger
>
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