Re: [16v] now my car is screwed! any suggestions?

[Mike VanAmburgh <vwvr6r@fiber.net>]

I was thinking the cat too.  A friend just went through the same
experience with a 91 GTI 8V.  He was actually blowing chunks of melted
cat out the exhaust.  Too cool.  Hehe.  He took everything apart, gutted
the cat and all is good now.  All he had left was a egg-sized piece left
in the cat, which was getting caught in the exhaust path when he stomped
on it.  

-Mike

Captnbr@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 12/18/99 4:22:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, rts@nol.net
> writes:
> 
> << Driving home from work through 30 miles of semi
>  residential streets, the first stop i come to the car
>  idle dips a bit, each subsequent stop the idle dips again
>  to around 400-500 and almost stalls. Now each time
>  progressively the car seems more sluggish off the line,
>  then at the stops, my oil light flickers. at this point
>  the car barely is able to chug up to 2krpm then the power
>  kicks in..2 stops later the car wont budge, just sits there
>  and idles, cant rev it up! >>
> 
> Well the description you gave above would sound to me like a self-destructing
> Catalytic converter.  First starting to melt away a little causing some
> excessive backpressure.  Then progressively melting further causing more
> backpressure.  Whether the converter can melt so far as to cause a complete
> clog not allowing your car to run at all I do not know but this may be your
> problem.  And if this can happen so suddenly,  Have you used any foreign
> products in the fuel system or around the air intake, or overfilled the oil
> crankcase?
> 
> Brian 86 16v
> http://hometown.aol.com/captnbr/myhomepage/auto.html
> 
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