Re: Braking the Ceramic Stuff out of my CAT's...

[ti@amb.org (Ti Kan)]

Elliott Potter writes:
> > Is there any way to break all the ceramic crap out of the catalytic
> > converters...  I own a 93 100CSQ and wanna kill the cat's becuase my
> > drivers side cat is dying....  also do you know any who'd do it for me?
> 
> Don't do it quite yet (unless you really want to) because so many people
> are having them break there might be another recall.
> And ACE hardware sells this *really big* drill bit........
> 
> > And also how hard is it to do it and will is screw up the electronics that
> > monitor exhaust?
>  
> Shouldn't, I don't think there are any electronics back that far.

I don't know about your vintage, but recent Audis (both 2.8 V6 and 1.8T)
have oxygen sensors *before and after* the catalytic convertor (yes, four
sensors total on the V6).  This is to provide the computer with information
about whether the cat is working.  On these cars, a failed cat will
generate a fault and stored in fault memory.

-Ti
96 A4 2.8 quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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