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Post by ce2jrh on Apr 11, 2016 13:58:15 GMT
Hi TEC! I just bought my first car, a 2005 Toyota Echo with 160k km on it a couple months ago. The seller and I brought it to a mechanic for a pre-purchase inspection, and one of the things that the mechanic mentioned is that the check engine light was on, producing a code that said the wrong amount of air? was getting to the engine, and it could just be plugs and filters, or it could be the catalytic inverter.
The owner promised to get everything fixed, took it to a garage, spent nearly $1000, and gave me the receipts. About a month later, the check engine light came on. I called the garage, and they said that they did all the work up to replacing the Catalytic Converter, but didn't replace it, and weren't sure, and that I could bring it in but I'd have to start with paying their diagnostic fee.
I have the money to go to a garage, but not a lot of it and I'd prefer not to hit my emergency fund so hard. I have a friend with tools, and who spent 1 year as a mechanics apprentice + 6 months in school for it, so pretty technically skilled. I'd like to
1) Confirm the problem 2) Find a Catalytic Converter as cheap as possible once it is confirmed as the problem and 3) Replace it ourselves.
How realistic is this, and how would I go about doing it? He does have a code reader.
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Post by oldredcelicabryan on Apr 11, 2016 19:43:05 GMT
This is out of my normal range of knowledge, but I would double check the codes from the OBD2 socket first. You've not said in what country you are, but is there any other owners in your area that would let you swap for a short while?
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Post by ce2jrh on Apr 12, 2016 4:44:38 GMT
Don't even know what that means.
But also, I had a rough day and in it, I scratched the front paint on a sign post. So I'm also looking for tips on fixing that.
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Post by oldredcelicabryan on Apr 13, 2016 1:56:36 GMT
Don't even know what that means. But also, I had a rough day and in it, I scratched the front paint on a sign post. So I'm also looking for tips on fixing that. As it's a 2005 you must have a socket that you plug and On Board Diagnostic reader into it to get the codes. OBD!!!
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Post by Uncle Bob on Apr 15, 2016 18:15:54 GMT
Hi TEC! I just bought my first car, a 2005 Toyota Echo with 160k km on it a couple months ago. The seller and I brought it to a mechanic for a pre-purchase inspection, and one of the things that the mechanic mentioned is that the check engine light was on, producing a code that said the wrong amount of air? was getting to the engine, and it could just be plugs and filters, or it could be the catalytic inverter. The owner promised to get everything fixed, took it to a garage, spent nearly $1000, and gave me the receipts. About a month later, the check engine light came on. I called the garage, and they said that they did all the work up to replacing the Catalytic Converter, but didn't replace it, and weren't sure, and that I could bring it in but I'd have to start with paying their diagnostic fee. I have the money to go to a garage, but not a lot of it and I'd prefer not to hit my emergency fund so hard. I have a friend with tools, and who spent 1 year as a mechanics apprentice + 6 months in school for it, so pretty technically skilled. I'd like to 1) Confirm the problem 2) Find a Catalytic Converter as cheap as possible once it is confirmed as the problem and 3) Replace it ourselves. How realistic is this, and how would I go about doing it? He does have a code reader. First off welcome to the club , if I'm right the Toyota Echo is the Japanese home market version of the UK Yaris , if you know the engine size you maybe able to get a uk catalyic converter to fit . Is it a 1.0, 1.3 or 1.4 engine size ?
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