Replacing De-Cat with Standard Cat

[siburrman]

Anyone know if this is easy to do? Looking under the car the de-cat looks like its TWO Spring bolts connecting to downpipe and then a u-shaped lock with TWO bolts connecting to cat-back exhaust.

Is it a simple case of putting the car on stands and removing the four bolts, swap out the de-cat and putting the four bolts back on?

OR is it easier to pay someone £30 to get it swapped out?

Cheers

 

[Aaron182.]

172 or 182?

 

[Will.]

I'm guessing by the car under his name being a 182, so yes it's easy to do. 172, not so much.

 

[Aaron182.]

Tapatalk dosent show me f all. Is why I asked, but yeah 182 is easy, pretty much a 10 minute job as long as you can get the lambda sensor out.

 

[Fletcher]

172 is a total ball ache

 

[marnook]

172 is a total ball ache

hi mate just wondering why you are replacing it MOT due ive got the 182 im putting a de cat on next week does it make a difference to the cars running cheers

 

[siburrman]

Sorry yeah its a 182. I think i will give it a shot myself. Is the lambda sensore not just screwed in? Or is there a special way of taking it off?

Im looking to swap it out because its just way too loud plus it menas it will be ok for when it needs an MOT

 

[Aaron182.]

yeah the sensor is just screwed in, but they tend to be a bit tight. if a big spanner wont do it, add some heat

 

[geordie]

22mm spanner iirc

 

[Aaron182.]

Yep, 22mm. And a blowtorch to get mine out. But I put some grinding paste in. So it's easy to take out in the future.