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Boblavens
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Can anyone describe "Cat Rattle" as I think mine is rattling.
The noise is from around the area of the Cat it doesn't appear immediately, you have to drive about 800 yds to a mile and it doesn;t matter if Drive or AC is engaged or not. its there when any gear or neutral or park is engaged.
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craig
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sure it's not a heat shield ?
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scorpio_man
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Re: Cat Rattle
« Reply #2 on: Jul 7th, 2005, 9:14pm » |
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hi there
has one of the egr rubber tubes blown off?
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Boblavens
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No it's not the heat sheild.
Strange the noise only appears to be there at low revs!!!!
i.e Parking and at traffic lights.
Bob
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scorpio_man
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Re: Cat Rattle
« Reply #4 on: Jul 21st, 2005, 6:02am » |
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hi there
jack the car up and when it's cool enough, hit the cat with your hand. if it's away, you'll hear it rattle.
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Biggles
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Re: Cat Rattle
« Reply #5 on: Jul 25th, 2005, 4:20pm » |
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Hi,
I had a rattle at the same times as you are finding it, and mine turned out to be a broken bracket close to the flexible joint part of the exhaust. Snapped it off and rattle gone. Just got to get a new one made up now, as you can't get it from FMD.
Peter(Biggles).
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Boblavens
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My Mechanic reckons it's the timing chain just starting to rattle as it disappears when you dirve any faster than tickover.
Bob
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