"Brian" <brianlecnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Feb 7, 10:00 am, Chris <ch...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Thanks for sending that its the Cat and sensor you need replaceing,
> which is part of the exhaust, there are very pricey,best thing to do is
> ring round and find some one that sales them ,done one on a vaxhall and
> that was a lot of money,has it had to be vauxhall part.it is a job you
> can do yourself.
> good luck chris..
No Chris, it is the particle filter in the exhaust which is blocked.
The prices quoted are normal for this, and to my knowledge, they are
only available from the main dealers. The exchange unit is one which
has been washed out.
> Barney, I don't know how handy you are with mechanics, but I cleaned
> mine out myself. Been fine for 8k+ miles since.
> I took it off and back flushed it out with several kettle-fulls of
> boiling water, blowing through with compressed air between. A load of
> white ash, and some soot came out. I then refitted it after leaving it
> in a warm place overnight to dry out a little. Apart from a bit of
> steam when I first started it, it was fine. Cost? well how much to
> boil up 10 kettles of water?
> Took a couple of hours or so. The most difficult bit was getting the
> clamps off the joints on the pipe.
> The filter on yours, 2001, is what looks like the front silencer box,
> it has a heat ****eld under it, and a sensor in the middle. This is
> actually a heat sensor.
> At the front end, and rear, there are little pipes which go to
> pressure sensors, which is where the error message is generated from,
> when they see too much restriction in the filter. You do have to be
> careful to get these back in the same order.
> The German diagram is actually for the larter model, where the cat and
> filter are in one box with a flange joint to separate them. On yours,
> the cat is right up on the back of the turbo, the box on the exhaust
> only contains the filter.
Many thanks Brian (and Chris). Very detailed description of what is
required
to remove and clean it out. Since I took it for a 30 minute blat along the
motorway the warning has not come back again. I wonder if the filter has
regenerated? Still, if it comes back I can decide whether to dismantle it
myself. Many thanks once again.
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