Rotten Egg smell from exhaust

[Jamo]

My car stinks on startup of eggs, my mate reckons my cat(s) have gone??

Opinions? and how much are cats?

[stevieyid]

I thought that was normal that sometimes the cats give out that smell? I have smelt it behind a few cars and a mechanic said it was the cats.

[Corey]

What fuel you using? Cheap supermarket fuels are usually to blame.

[Ross]

Cats? What are they??

[Corey]

How do you make a cat go woof?

[Jamo]

What fuel you using? Cheap supermarket fuels are usually to blame.

Only use Optimax

[dan_b]

It's to do with sulphur in the petrol being converted to hydrogen sulphide by the catalysts - this usually occurs when the car is colder, and is much more common in Europe than, say the US, as our petrol tends to have a higher sulphur content. I think the only things you can do about it are to make sure your car is running correctly, and possibly consider changing petrol

[Fat Audi 80]

As Dan rightly states, its the sulphur in the petrol. I don't think it is something to worry about.

[teachingyourgrannytosuckeggs]You will know if you cats are gone when you go for an MOT[/teachingyourgrannytosuckeggs]



Cheers,

Steve

[HPmuirt]

How do you make a cat go woof?

Pour petrol over it and strike a match....boom boom

No idea how much the S2 cats cost, but for my '93 2.8 Coupe, there were around £700 each from the Stealers and £251 for pattern ones. (actually, they were £251 and £261 when the only difference is the angle of the bracket )

Hope you don't need them

Cheers n

Si

[Fat Audi 80]

Cats? What are they??

Smug inferior 3b driver trying to show off to the ABY boys

[Jamo]

Pour petrol over it and strike a match....boom boom

No idea how much the S2 cats cost, but for my '93 2.8 Coupe, there were around £700 each from the Stealers and £251 for pattern ones. (actually, they were £251 and £261 when the only difference is the angle of the bracket )

Hope you don't need them

Cheers n

Si

Fook that rather get an aftermarket exhaust!

[topsparky]

How do you make a cat go woof?

cover it in petrol band get a match

[topsparky]

cover it in petrol band get a match

oops to late must have beer goggles on sorry lad s i'll get back in my cage and shut the fook up

[dan_b]

Fook that rather get an aftermarket exhaust!

Thing is if your cats are on the way out, with your ABY you'll need to replace them to get it through the MOT...

Don't worry about it for now though mate, just wear a gasmask and get some Tesco 99

[S2central.net]

Mine used to do this on Optimax as well... I thought it was CATs showing their age, even though I've always flown thru MOT gas tests with ease.

I had forgotten about the smell - ain't noticed it since moving to this part of the world, where Optimax and Tesco99 remains utterly unavailable. Fook !


Paul