Blown cats, long drive, long trip

[chilort]

In Atlanta and I got the sparkly smoke out the back. I'm on a stage II Chipwerke and pulley. I have to drive back to Mississippi with the family in the car tomorrow.

Will I make it?

This couldn't have happened at a more challenging time. I leave the country for 7 weeks at the end of this coming week. Good news is that I get plenty of time to plan. Bad news is that I don't have time to do anything about this until I get back. Almost thinking of getting a rental car for the week.

Are the aftermarket cats holding up? I had yet to purchase an exhaust for my car. Still thinking, "no."

She somehow knew I've been looking at 911s...

[Rodizzle]

Is the car misfiring ? Did the cat blow completely ? Test pipe is one option .


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[redlinerex]

You should be fine driving home but I'd drive conservatively.

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[chilort]

I've got the crust on one side on the exhaust tips. The car isn't using oil. And there's no oil in the coolant. I finally got the CEL last night. I thought I'd seen smoke before but it must be platinum dust.

Are any of the after market cats holding up?

[fitzydude]

I'll be going with Evans hfc's when mine give up. They seem to have the best reviews of anything out there.

[spoolin80]

Not to side track at all..curious how long you were CW stage 2 when the cats went ?

[chilort]

Not to side track at all..curious how long you were CW stage 2 when the cats went ?

About 20k miles. But I'm over 122k miles now. I had a CPO but didn't put the CW on until I was out of CPO. I didn't want to risk the CPO even a little.

Made it back to MS watch the water and oil temps the whole time. But to put the VCDS cable on.

[Rodizzle]

Not to side track at all..curious how long you were CW stage 2 when the cats went ?

Being tune or not isnt the real problem. The problem is bad design of Audi , to damn close to the engine . Yes having the car tune will push the failure to occur sooner . I had my Driverside Cat blown at 46k , it was replaced under warranty ( I wasn’t tuned at ) .
And as for the OP , you be fine driving that car around , misfires and EPC is the worst that could happens . Be easy on it while you choose with the route u want to go with . Personally , I went with test pipes and I’m extremely happy with them ( except the noise ) . Some of us have gone with hollow OEM Cats or catted test pipes .

[chilort]

As suspected:

1 Fault Found:
6093 - Catalyst System; Bank 1
P0420 00 [237] - Efficiency Below Threshold
MIL ON - Confirmed - Tested Since Memory Clear
Freeze Frame:
Fault Status: 00000001
Fault Priority: 2
Fault Frequency: 2
Mileage: 196909 km
Date: 2018.04.28
Time: 17:43:12

Engine speed: 2265.00 /min
Normed load value: 51.0 %
Vehicle speed: 113 km/h
Coolant temperature: 96 °C
Intake air temperature: 37 °C
Ambient air pressure: 980 mbar
Voltage terminal 30: 13.913 V
Unlearning counter according OBD: 40
Engine speed: actual: 2496 /min
MAF_ENVD: 337.71764 mg/stroke
Coolant temperature (unfiltered): 96.0 °C
Engine: operating status: PL
TEMP_CAT_ENVD[1]: 755.000000 °C
Vehicle speed: actual: 126 km/h