MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: grant845 on September 21, 2011, 02:23:50 pm
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Just been informed by 4yr old Edition 30 with 29k miles on it has failed it's MOT on emissions, anybody else had any experience of this? Seems ridiculous to me. Been told a fuel line clean should cure it
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http://www.cataclean.com/
My mate uses this all the time on car that fails MOT at his garage (also my old audi) and surprised how well it works.
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What fuel do you run the car on?
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Usually Tesco 99 but it's got Esso standard petrol in it the now. Car is completely standard
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Did you give it a good raz before turning up? Get the cat nice and hotand check emissions first...
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It's be in since 8 this morning, was getting serviced as well. I'm sure one of the YTS lads will razz it when they check it!
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the car on start up from cold does the higher revs and inject fuel on exhaust cycle to get the cat warm so should be a need to raz it too much, very suprised it would have failed on that :confused:
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Which part of the emmissions test did it fail on?
I know an unscrupulous MOT tester that has an oddly high rate of cars fail on emissions and sells engine flush and fuel system additives by the truckload. Im not convinced they are actually failing in the first place :wink:
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From memory it was the 2nd resting level that was too high. I'd just signed up to the two year service plan so they weren't really needing more money from me. It passed after the fuel line flush
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how much they make you pay for the fuel cleaner?
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Just been informed by 4yr old Edition 30 with 29k miles on it has failed it's MOT on emissions, anybody else had any experience of this? Seems ridiculous to me. Been told a fuel line clean should cure it
VW stealers or other???
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Vw garage, I was charged £18 for fuel cleaner
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ouch, they are like £1 to buy at cost, its generally aload of crap that the fuel cleaner alone will get it through, as mentioned before normally getting it nice and hot works wonders. Next time they try it on tell them you will bring your own fuel cleaner in, i bet it then mysteriously passes without putting one in!