Cat warning - again!
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:17 pm
Any diagnostic thinking appreciated!
I have a 2006 E85 2.0 z4. Back in January, I drove to work after 2 weeks of not driving, to find the car vibrating heavily on the motorway and then I received the P0420 cat warning. This was repeatable only after 10 minutes of driving - so suspected that I needed a cat replacement. This car has 3: 2 inbuilt in the exhaust manifold and one downstream. I replaced the exhaust manifold with a salvaged one that had only done half the miles (60k) and had been tested. After a local garage reset the adapters, everything was back to normal... until recently; less than 1000 miles later - another warning, and also a bit later, a low oil warning, with some oil evident top of the exhaust manifold.
Leaky rocker cover / valve gasket? Oil getting into the exhaust and ruining the cat? Or unrelated....
Any ideas welcome!
I have a 2006 E85 2.0 z4. Back in January, I drove to work after 2 weeks of not driving, to find the car vibrating heavily on the motorway and then I received the P0420 cat warning. This was repeatable only after 10 minutes of driving - so suspected that I needed a cat replacement. This car has 3: 2 inbuilt in the exhaust manifold and one downstream. I replaced the exhaust manifold with a salvaged one that had only done half the miles (60k) and had been tested. After a local garage reset the adapters, everything was back to normal... until recently; less than 1000 miles later - another warning, and also a bit later, a low oil warning, with some oil evident top of the exhaust manifold.
Leaky rocker cover / valve gasket? Oil getting into the exhaust and ruining the cat? Or unrelated....
Any ideas welcome!