Warning signs of Cat being on its way out??

[AndyWilde]

Morning all,

Over the last week or so I have noticed a weird rattling come from (I think) the front part of my car. It's definately not the cat-back as this is not even a year old and a K-tec one so good quality, think it might be the car but not sure.

The rattling is not that noticable from inside the car and appears worse when starting from cold.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Andy

 

[.J.a.m.e.s.]

has it been changed before and i so when?!

 

[AndyWilde]

I don't think it has been changed, the car is a 2003 with 47k

 

[Dangerous_dave]

not heatshield rattling is it? if not i have got my sports cat off now so its ready to go if you wanted it?

 

[AndyWilde]

Might be the heat shield, how easy is this to fix? Dave, if he price is right I will buy one went for £140 and £150 on eBay ;-)

 

[Gumby]

I thought you meant a meow meow cat

Mine rattled at certain rpm when it was on it's way out for some reason.

 

[Reyes]

Mine starts meowing when she wants to go out.





Exhaust though, it would smell eggy. Smell your exhaust.

 

[Fred@BTM]

k-tec had a dodgy batch of exhausts at one stage, might be worth giving them a call

 

[AndyWilde]

There doesn't seem to be any eggy smells so maybe it's not the cat...how easy a job is it to sort the heat shield (apologies if this a dumb Q but I'm useless at car maintenance)

 

[JoeyD]

k-tec had a dodgy batch of exhausts at one stage, might be worth giving them a call

How long ago? :S

 

[Kizza9]

There doesn't seem to be any eggy smells so maybe it's not the cat...how easy a job is it to sort the heat shield (apologies if this a dumb Q but I'm useless at car maintenance)

Not hard at all, get under your car (when its cold) and push on the heatshield with your hand and see if there is a lot of movement or see if it is resting on the exhaust, if it is fixing it you can either take the heatshield off or renault use some weird screw clip things to hold them on, just go down to your local scrappy and you can take a load off on a clio there and have a few spare