mrwibble
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 01:36 PM |
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wigs in the exhaust
a little while ago my misses car spat out a load of wigs. at first we thought it was a practical joke, and someone had rammed a load of wigs and fake
hair extensions up the exhaust of her 1.3 KA. but then someone said they had found the same come out of their exhaust when the cat died. a further
observer thought it was out of the silencer. on fleabay i can find a new cat which comes welded onto a manifold for about 90£.
Is it worth worrying about till MOT time, in Dec? do these things die in stages or will it be fecked completely, tbh doesn't sound overly loud
so i'm sure theres plenty of fake hair left inside... outside condition of the pipes looks ok, and the middle (& tail?)section was replaced
not too long ago...
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 01:40 PM |
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Once you achieve full wig removal, you will get a headache.. Then you know you need a new one
[Edited on 23/9/09 by Bluemoon]
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 01:54 PM |
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PMSL 
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 01:56 PM |
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It's nothing to do with the cat, the hair you see coming out is from the absorptive silencer, which is usually the first silencer of a two box
system. The inner perforated tube rots through and the exhaust gasses blow the wadding through the exhaust and out of the tail pipe. This is quite a
common problem.
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mrwibble
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 01:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
It's nothing to do with the cat, the hair you see coming out is from the absorptive silencer, which is usually the first silencer of a two box
system. The inner perforated tube rots through and the exhaust gasses blow the wadding through the exhaust and out of the tail pipe. This is quite a
common problem.
aha! excellent if this is true, i shall tell the misses to forget it. Now the person who told me it was the cat said "the garage told me it was
the cat" so he got stung!!!
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l0rd
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 02:06 PM |
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You will know if the cat is dead when they fail you on the MOT for emissions.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 02:14 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mrwibble
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
It's nothing to do with the cat, the hair you see coming out is from the absorptive silencer, which is usually the first silencer of a two box
system. The inner perforated tube rots through and the exhaust gasses blow the wadding through the exhaust and out of the tail pipe. This is quite a
common problem.
aha! excellent if this is true, i shall tell the misses to forget it. Now the person who told me it was the cat said "the garage told me it was
the cat" so he got stung!!!
tbh I won't put it past a garage to claim it was the cat. There is no wading in the cat just a ceramic honey comb like this (though they are
quite fragile) -
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mrwibble
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 02:18 PM |
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great, i was almost booking it in for an emissions test to see if the cat needed replacing b4 the mot.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 02:30 PM |
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I wouldn’t bother doing any thing right now as if the noise isn’t too bad. The wading will blow itself out till it’s no longer affected by the gas
flow. Usually it’s the middle silencer that is a straight through one with the wading and the rear silencer is a baffled box with none, though it does
vary. The car should still be perfectly fine to go through an MOT.
[Edited on 23/9/09 by Mr Whippy]
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 04:06 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
The car should still be perfectly fine to go through an MOT.
Though the MOT man might not be impressed if his exhaust probe has a sudden hair growth during the test
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big_wasa
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 04:14 PM |
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It was a scam at a local tyre fitters our way.
You go in for a back box or a mid section and they tell you you must have a new cat before it can be driven or it will damage the engine.
The firm is target driven so one cat is the same sale to them as four cheap tyres. The fitters where then selling the old cats out the back door for
cash in hand weekend money. 
I sent the wifes car up for a mid section as I couldnt be bothered to weld it. They cut the old exhaust of the car and refused to refit the new one
with out a new cat.
They even cut the cat of with out asking .
The car past its mot for three years after.
I wont be going there again
[Edited on 23/9/09 by big_wasa]
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Peteff
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 05:24 PM |
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Our car failed emissions last year and when I took the front pipe with the cat off the car it was completely hollow, no evidence of anything inside it
at all. I fitted a replacement £90 front cat pipe and it passed straight away and again this year.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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kipper
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| posted on 23/9/09 at 06:49 PM |
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dead cat
What was the poor pussy doing up there
in the first place 
Where did that go?
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