2003 shut down, cat conv engine light. help-stranded
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2003 shut down, cat conv engine light. help-stranded
My 2003 SE shut down while driving. It has 200,000miles. A week ago the check engine light came on and the person at Autozone said the cat is underperforming. Today the car started making a rattle in the motor when i let off the gas and then it just shut down. The motor just shut down. Then it would run awhile and then shut down again. I reset the check engine light to make it go off and it didnt come back on. I only drove it about a block since I did that. It still makes a noise in the engine. A nice guy stopped to help and thinks I possibly overheated the oil due to exhaust not escaping from a clogged cat and that the noise is a ruined a bearing or rod. Can anyone help tell me what the problem is and what to do? Thanks so much!
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My 2003 SE shut down while driving. It has 200,000miles. A week ago the check engine light came on and the person at Autozone said the cat is underperforming. Today the car started making a rattle in the motor when i let off the gas and then it just shut down. The motor just shut down. Then it would run awhile and then shut down again. I reset the check engine light to make it go off and it didnt come back on. I only drove it about a block since I did that. It still makes a noise in the engine. A nice guy stopped to help and thinks I possibly overheated the oil due to exhaust not escaping from a clogged cat and that the noise is a ruined a bearing or rod. Can anyone help tell me what the problem is and what to do? Thanks so much!
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I am very much afraid that the sequence of events culminating with exhaust smoke may be the end for your engine - meaning it may be more economical to replace it with a JDM take-out or good one from a wrecker than repairing the one you have. That is worst case. Regardless, don't start it again. Sometimes when the catalytic converter fails, tiny pieces get sucked back into the engine and do the damage.
I am thinking of going to headers just to avoid the risk of a failed cat.
Good luck,
Glenn
I am thinking of going to headers just to avoid the risk of a failed cat.
Good luck,
Glenn
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