Andre D Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Hi guys, i been looking through the forum for possible answers to my little problem, i have an 06 roadster with what looks like a decat custom exhaust, the sound at low revs has a very deep low drone to the point where its difficult to talk to a passenger, in higher revs its really raspy it sounds great but really loud. i dont have anyway of lifting the car but looking as best i can i can see a "Y" pipe that goes to the 2 stainless silencers, thing is the "Y" pipe is painted black? i will try to get some pics up maybe someone could i.d it. Thing is who would paint a stainless pipe black lol, the seller was a dealership and said it was an expensive custom made £2k job but im not so sure!! anyway any high revs and it trips the engine management light. i will try and get some video of it soon as it might help to recognise it. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Did you take those pics with a potato?! Really you need to get a pic of the decats, if indeed it does have decats. What code is the CEL producing? And what are you ultimately after? I’m not sure there’s an actual question in your post... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybp Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 22 minutes ago, Ekona said: Did you take those pics with a potato?! Really you need to get a pic of the decats, if indeed it does have decats. What code is the CEL producing? And what are you ultimately after? I’m not sure there’s an actual question in your post... Diplomatic as always Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 That was the edited diplomatic version! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre D Posted November 25, 2018 Author Share Posted November 25, 2018 lol sorry my phone battery was 9% and refused to flash, i will upload some better ones, i guess im trying to identify what exhaust is on the car. trolling google the back boxes look a bit like the japspeed ones, code reader is on order so cant give code yet. Im seriously thinking of replacing the exhaust with something less noisy but want to avoid buying the same one lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 You can always do the pedal dance to get the code in the mean time If you have decats then that’ll be the main cause of the problem, so I’d suggest identifying that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre D Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 so i have had a look under the car and it is fitted with de-cat pipes, my local mot tester said this was an instant fail is that correct, what he actually said was "if they are visible but clearly been replaced its a fail regardless of emissions" i have a problem with the dealer at the moment and an mot failure which was for emissions and noise of exhaust excessive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeA Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 1 minute ago, Andre D said: so i have had a look under the car and it is fitted with de-cat pipes, my local mot tester said this was an instant fail is that correct, what he actually said was "if they are visible but clearly been replaced its a fail regardless of emissions" i have a problem with the dealer at the moment and an mot failure which was for emissions and noise of exhaust excessive I had my mot done in October and was told it was an instant fail too so I stuck my old cats back on then switched back to decats after the mot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre D Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 thanks luke looks like the dealer has a hefty bill coming lol. anyone selling standard or high flow cats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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