How to lose years of life to a car catalytic converter?
- November 5, 2022
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The Russian fleet is not young, and the trend “I left and sold for three years” is getting further and further away from a simple motorist every day.
The Russian fleet is not young, and the trend “I left and sold for three years” is getting further and further away from a simple motorist every day. There is no doubt that in the very near future most “drivers” will be faced with one of the most difficult and expensive problems of a modern car – the failure of the catalytic converter. How to postpone this day as much as possible, the AvtoVzglyad portal says.
There is no more unknown and more dangerous element of an internal combustion engine than a catalytic converter. They are afraid of him, because it is worth not following, not noticing how the ceramic honeycombs immediately fall apart, fill the cylinders with dust, which will crack the surfaces and lead to the engine bulkhead. However, preventive “surgery”, which many car owners go for after reading the Internet, is also a “so-so option”.
After cutting off one of the nodes of the system, you have to make changes to the engine software, use various “plugs” and “tricks”, which in the end leads to a lot of problems and difficulties. In the end, the check engine icon is always on the dashboard and the black exhaust that sticks to the bumper is no fun either. Pay an experienced “surgeon”, or choose between two evils. Pretty sad prospect.
Dirty fuel, which has been tireless in the Russian regions, but in vain, fighting for many decades, eternal traffic jams and mediocre car maintenance with widespread savings “on competitions”, will one day drive the catalyst to the grave. I am silent about the gas installation, which will make this path extremely short. And what to do?
The experience of unfortunate neighbors suggests a very, very productive solution that sometimes allows you to extend the life of the “cat”. Read, not for months, but for years. And the solution, in general, is simple, which is already being used in Russia: it turns out that the catalytic converter can be washed! The “cleaner” cartridge naturally gets clogged, but if you realized it in time, heard the signals from the car itself, with one simple operation, which is not too expensive, you can and should save a lot.
The catalytic converter is thus located in the exhaust pipe and its main task is to clean up harmful emissions. Simply put, once they pass through, toxic exhaust fumes are no longer like that. Clogged with the remnants of burnt oil and low quality fuel, the catalytic converter causes poor engine performance, slow acceleration and loss of power. It was at this time that the check engine lights up on the dashboard – “Chekan”, “Chekulya”, “Jackie Chan” and further down the list, depending on the region and the intelligence level of the car owner. At the moment, as a rule, there is only one way out: drop out.
The fact is that the new catalyst itself will be expensive: it consists of precious metals, including gold and platinum. In addition, an old, outdated catalytic converter costs a lot of money, about which the “surgeon” regularly “forgets” to inform the owner of the car. It is for this reason that the popularity of the operation has developed: the master gets money twice. First from the owner of the car, and then from the delivery of the node to the non-ferrous metal.
However, it is worth making such serious decisions only in one case: if the catalyst has already begun to crumble. If it is intact – it is easy to check, just unscrew the first lambda probe and climb into the room, which now costs a thousand rubles on a market day – then the catalytic converter should definitely be kept and washed.
All you need is a car wash and special caustic chemicals that can wash away stuck-on deposits for years to come. A few hours of work, and you can post it. There’s only one way to get what you want, to get quality service at a healthy rate: prepare and find out the details. As for the repair, the rule will work. This is not a gas station, this is the time.
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There is no more unknown and more dangerous element of an internal combustion engine than a catalytic converter. They are afraid of him, because it is worth not following, not noticing how the ceramic honeycombs immediately fall apart, fill the cylinders with dust, which will crack the surfaces and lead to the engine bulkhead. However, preventive “surgery”, which many car owners go for after reading the Internet, is also a “so-so option”.
After cutting off one of the nodes of the system, you have to make changes to the engine software, use various “plugs” and “tricks”, which in the end leads to a lot of problems and difficulties. In the end, the check engine icon is always on the dashboard and the black exhaust that sticks to the bumper is no fun either. Pay an experienced “surgeon”, or choose between two evils. Pretty sad prospect.
Dirty fuel, which has been tireless in the Russian regions, but in vain, fighting for many decades, eternal traffic jams and mediocre car maintenance with widespread savings “on competitions”, will one day drive the catalyst to the grave. I am silent about the gas installation, which will make this path extremely short. And what to do?
The experience of unfortunate neighbors suggests a very, very productive solution that sometimes allows you to extend the life of the “cat”. Read, not for months, but for years. And the solution, in general, is simple, which is already being used in Russia: it turns out that the catalytic converter can be washed! The “cleaner” cartridge naturally gets clogged, but if you realized it in time, heard the signals from the car itself, with one simple operation, which is not too expensive, you can and should save a lot.
The catalytic converter is thus located in the exhaust pipe and its main task is to clean up harmful emissions. Simply put, once they pass through, toxic exhaust fumes are no longer like that. Clogged with the remnants of burnt oil and low quality fuel, the catalytic converter causes poor engine performance, slow acceleration and loss of power. It was at this time that the check engine lights up on the dashboard – “Chekan”, “Chekulya”, “Jackie Chan” and further down the list, depending on the region and the intelligence level of the car owner. At the moment, as a rule, there is only one way out: drop out.
The fact is that the new catalyst itself will be expensive: it consists of precious metals, including gold and platinum. In addition, an old, outdated catalytic converter costs a lot of money, about which the “surgeon” regularly “forgets” to inform the owner of the car. It is for this reason that the popularity of the operation has developed: the master gets money twice. First from the owner of the car, and then from the delivery of the node to the non-ferrous metal.
However, it is worth making such serious decisions only in one case: if the catalyst has already begun to crumble. If it is intact – it is easy to check, just unscrew the first lambda probe and climb into the room, which now costs a thousand rubles on a market day – then the catalytic converter should definitely be kept and washed.
All you need is a car wash and special caustic chemicals that can wash away stuck-on deposits for years to come. A few hours of work, and you can post it. There’s only one way to get what you want, to get quality service at a healthy rate: prepare and find out the details. As for the repair, the rule will work. This is not a gas station, this is the time.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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