New Cat Convertor on A3 3.2...options?

The decat I have has a threaded hole for the lamda sensor to be screwed into. Unsure if all decats have this however?

It also means you will have to get under the car twice a year to do the swap. It's easy on my car, unsure on yours.
 
[TW]Fox;22776743 said:
Do you find these in Yellow Pages or something? How is Mr Average supposed to find a dishon... sorry 'friendly' garage for MOT's?
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Well if many of your friends are into cars and/or own modified vehicles its not hard to find out if you ask around?

One presume a guy who owns a 3.2 litre car and is already considering a decat might be something of a petrolhead and have a few contacts he could ask? :)
 
That's quite pricey indeed! I didn't get an emmisions sheet with my MOT, do you still get them?

I'm thinking since he put on a centre section and backbox he just became 'friendly' to get it passed. Purely because the previous owner had a horrible time trying to get the car passed looking at previous MOTs.
 
Will said:
Well if many of your friends are into cars and/or own modified vehicles its not hard to find out if you ask around?

One presume a guy who owns a 3.2 litre car and is already considering a decat might be something of a petrolhead and have a few contacts he could ask? :)
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I'm surprised such places exist these days. My usual garage won't let me get away with anything now, even forced me to fit a rear fog on the 300 after 8 years of not having one.
 
[TW]Fox;22776743 said:
Do you find these in Yellow Pages or something? How is Mr Average supposed to find a dishon... sorry 'friendly' garage for MOT's?
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You ask around at work/in the pub/gym/hobby , basically wherever there are people

Obviously not as easy as getting a non dodgy MOT but hardly impossible
 
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Clarkey said:
I'm surprised such places exist these days. My usual garage won't let me get away with anything now, even forced me to fit a rear fog on the 300 after 8 years of not having one.
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I have no doubt it will get increasingly harder, but I know of enough people over time who have decatted cars and never struggle come MOT time to think that there are still enough garages to turn a blind eye.
 
Gixer said:
The decat I have has a threaded hole for the lamda sensor to be screwed into. Unsure if all decats have this however?

It also means you will have to get under the car twice a year to do the swap. It's easy on my car, unsure on yours.
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pure pig of a job on the a3 3.2

having done this on both a 8P a3 and a mk4 golf I would never like the displeasure of doing a manifold on either car again. certainly wouldn't want to be doing it twice a year
 
Will said:
I have no doubt it will get increasingly harder, but I know of enough people over time who have decatted cars and never struggle come MOT time to think that there are still enough garages to turn a blind eye.
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yeah but there cars probably still passed the emissions with the cat removed , but as of July this year no cat no MOT it wont even get to the emissions test, i guess the tester will have to know you to let that slide
 
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