- Nov 10, 2019
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Mine came on shortly after after work at dealership. I blew it off and blew it up in about a month and a half, dead on the side of the road, just suddenly started losing power, smoking like crazy. Only thing besides the light had been slight increase on the oil pressure gauge. Mechanic said it had collapsed. Replace it, but it was toast. Continued smoking but not like the day it blew and used oil. Traded a month later with the lesson learned. Another one of those dumb-ass mistakes I wouldn't have to make again.Yeah, mine just kicked the code a few days ago.Never realized what a catalytic converter could do to a vehicle, till I ruined a nice dang Mazda LX king cab (from back when they were real Mazdas, not Ford) pickup, by not having it properly diagnosed until it was too late. Dumb-Assed move on my part.Agreed and totally unexpected. I was just asking to see if there was some online site I could use to get some value out of them. I ended up getting a new catalytic converter for half off.That is cool!So about 2 weeks ago my Dodge lost it's engine. A quarter million miles of heavy hauling finally ended my trucks life lol
So today I went to Oriellys to get a part for my other truck and I remembered I still had parts I bought FOUR YEARS ago to rebuild the front end suspension on the dodge. I inquired on the best way to sell them as they were never used and they said bring em in and we'll inspect them. I went and retrieved the parts and they gave me a 100% refund.
I was in total shock. The parts were still new but the packaging was trashed after 4 years. I did not expect that to even be a remote possibility.
Was gonna just weld on a straight pipe but found out if I did that the o2 sensor would kick a constant code on the dash cluster. Don't wanna deal with that annoying shit.