My Car has really bad wind

DKLS

I presume its the Cat, thats causing it, but every morning coming off the M1
and cruising up the slip road, The car gives off a terrible guff and it stinks really rank. Anything I can do to stop it?, Can i ditch the cat and get a straight through exhaust and just switch vefore the MOT?

S-T-E-V-E_3

If you get caught running the car without a CAT then you can get into very serious trouble, also the car will be a bit noisier without the CAT so you'll be swapping smell for noise.

Maybe worth trying Salvage or Scrap yards to get A 2nd hand CAT

Alternatively might be worth trying a different fuel

natanddan1

why dont you take the CAT to the vets to see if he can give some medication!!!!!!!!


sorry, couldnt help myself

saintjanet

Could be aircon,assuming you have it!!

zappahey

S-T-E-V-E wrote: »

If you get caught running the car without a CAT then you can get into very serious trouble

Really? Care to elaborate?

reheat

What makes you think its the cat? There's all sorts of reasons cars can stink. Also the engine management would probably screw up if you removed the cat.

What car do you have? We have a Mondeo (95K miles) and there have been two different faults that have caused ghastly choking smells.

1) Heater fan has ballast resistors in the circuit. If the fan motor gets a bit stiff the resistors can overheat and burn the surrounding plastic casing. Truly awful whiff.

2) Air conditioning pump siezed up. The pump is driven via its own clutch which then slipped when the air conditioning tried to cut in. The smell from this was also diabolical.

There are many other reasons. Binding brakes, leaking fuel, leaking air con fluid, leaking exhaust, etc etc. Best get it checked, especially if the fumes pose any health risk. If exhaust fumes are getting into the car they could seriously affect your driving, even lead to an accident.

reheat

zappahey wrote: »

Really? Care to elaborate?

Not sure whether or not you can get done for not having a cat, but I imagine you can get done for driving a car with emissions above the legal limit. In practice it probably amounts to the same thing for most cars. Older cars probably exempt I imagine.

DKLS

Ok To answer some of the points:

Air con was recharged at last service and anti- bacteria stuff put in January.
So I dont think its that.

To describe the smell, its not like burnt clutch, leaking fuel or cooked brakes, its more of a Sulpherous type eggy smell, like a really bad fart.

And I have had it on a couple of previous cars including new hire cars, that when exiting a motorway and cruising to the junction the car lets one off.

Its not that much of an issue as I have now found the car I want, Ugly as hell, But anything that the Italians call "Il Monstro" has my name on it.

roswell

There is a website i found on google some time ago new cats are about £100, if your going to wait for it to fail a mot before you replace it expect to pay a lot more for the garage to fit it.

id take it to a garage and ask them to test the emitions and advise what they think the problem is, if your lucky they will say its the cat it will cost XYZ you can them just order the part yourself.