Re: Your Experience: Catalyst Lifetime?
SR-71 wrote:
> I'm curious, in your experience, what life would you expect out of the
> original Honda Catalytic Converter?
>
> More specifically, here's my background FYI:
> 1998 Accord V6 with 145000 miles, half freeway, half stop-and-go driving
> everyday for two hours total a day.
>
> Recently, the MIL was on with 3 codes:
> P0401(67) - EGR Insufficient Flow Detected
> ?????(90) - EVAP Control System Leakage
> -Two codes transpose to (90).
> P0420 - Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold
>
Blown EGR and/or dying O2 sensor can easily stress the
cat to where it dies an early death. Instead of getting
10-12 years out of it or more, you get maybe half that.
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