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Trading Area => Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted => Topic started by: cruisetopoland on 09 November 2009, 16:15:21

Title: Wanted 2.2 petrol cat pipe and poss manifold
Post by: cruisetopoland on 09 November 2009, 16:15:21

Anyone got an as-new cat pipe for a 2000X 2.2 petrol auto?
May need the manifold too...

Happy to buy new-please recommend supplier asap as need to have it by Friday  :y

Ebay was most expensive after VX, best seen so far £94 online...any ideas??

(definitely gone-has been checked by OOF member)

Title: Re: Wanted 2.2 petrol cat pipe and poss manifold
Post by: cruisetopoland on 09 November 2009, 18:33:11

A "mechanic" friend suggested I just screw long self tappers through the case into the innards to stop it clanking.  Sounds daft to me....

Comments?

Help appreciated  :y

Title: Re: Wanted 2.2 petrol cat pipe and poss manifold
Post by: hotel21 on 09 November 2009, 18:54:08

I feel that this would work but only on a short term basis.  As I understand it, cat internals are basically ceramic (awaits following posts to confirm/deny) and the use of long self tappers would do the deed only for as long as the internal structure held up.  Week?  month?  Year or two?  Dunno....

Title: Re: Wanted 2.2 petrol cat pipe and poss manifold
Post by: cruisetopoland on 10 November 2009, 08:27:45

Should I just order a new one then???

Is £94 too much??

Please help-must order it today to get it for the weekend  :y

Title: Re: Wanted 2.2 petrol cat pipe and poss manifold
Post by: bluehawk on 10 November 2009, 12:55:48

where are you getting one for that price as i am after one as well

Title: Re: Wanted 2.2 petrol cat pipe and poss manifold
Post by: cruisetopoland on 10 November 2009, 13:06:38

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where are you getting one for that price as i am after one as well

Luckily I get on well with our local Vauxhall garage (they are also Suzuki dealer and I have had 4 new cars off them since 2006), so they are very helpful with my endless Omega questions and supplied a new header tank for under £30.

I spoke to the service guy about buying a replacement cat and asked for genuine VX price......£644.51+vat.....!!
He advised that it would be much better to buy a good used cat off a broken Omega than to buy a cheap new one, as they have had terrible experiences with cheap new cats upsetting the Omega sensors and engine management etc.  One client returned four different cats and ended up fitting a secondhand one, another had a cheapo fitted by a chain and had to take it back to Vauxhall for the genuine part.

I note that any cat fitted to a March 2001- registered car must be R103 certificated, but parts appear identical...look into this before ordering a more expensive R103 certed one unnecessarily...

I have no idea about this, but the friendly advice from the VX garage chap was to source a good secondhand genuine part.  I have now done this through a club memeber who is fitting it for me on Saturday.

Hope this helps you choose :y

Title: Re: Wanted 2.2 petrol cat pipe and poss manifold
Post by: mathewst on 12 November 2009, 14:55:19

Hotel21 just for the info, Cats cores are either ceramic or now even mettalic ones (far better and more resistant but more expensive too)