Am I a victim of precat failure?? *ENGINE SWAP IN PROGRESS*

Anonymous · October 16, 2007, 23:06

Ok so Toyota are in this case not proving to be particularly helpful!
It's great that this site exists=]
The end result of my visit to the garage today was that I have to get the gearbox fixed myself and IF the loss of power is still evident then I should return to them to get the engine examined.

Should I follow their advice or should I just tell them to stop fobbing me off?
I am aware that the gearbox problem will need fixing at some point, I have just put it off because it sounds expensive, and not knowing much about cars I was always holding out some hope that it would just go away one day!@!!!

s;-) ;-) s;-)

Anonymous · October 16, 2007, 23:08

Speedy, they did not replace the main cat, your engine has either gone or is going, period.

Anonymous · October 16, 2007, 23:15

Speedy you have a pm, private message in your inbox.

Anonymous · October 19, 2007, 22:06

Oh right?! I wasn't aware that they literally break up and completely disintegrate. I thought only bits of them would come off here and there.

I guess the next job is to go to another garage and find out if they can check these for me.

aaronjb · October 19, 2007, 22:16

I bet I know where your precats are..

In your main CAT.

Which would explain the lack of power, and why they weren't there when Toyota looked.

Anonymous · October 20, 2007, 12:54

Oh right?! I wasn't aware that they literally break up and completely disintegrate. I thought only bits of them would come off here and there.

I guess the next job is to go to another garage and find out if they can check these for me.

Gbirch · October 23, 2007, 12:53

How quickly will a new engine be bodged if driven with the orginal CAT.?

Mine was driven about 20 miles for MOT. Now back at garage waiting a CAT that i desperately trying to source.

Anonymous · October 23, 2007, 15:49

Possibly about 1 mile, or could be up to 1000. No-one knows, but I wouldn't like to try it. s;)

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