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      10-14-2009, 09:04 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Robo Squirrel View Post
i got myself a scanner tool and these are the codes it threw me: P0420 and P0430

i cleared the codes to see if they would come back and they have not so far.
Well those codes certianly point to the cats...

P0420 = Catalyst system effciency below threshold. (Bank #1)

P0430 = Catalyst system effciency below threshold. (Bank #2)

Translation: The post cat O2 sensors are detecting that your cats are not functioning the way they should.

Now this may just be a random annomoly, and it won't pop up again. But if it does, you either have two a faulty post cat O2 sensors , or the cats are the indeed the source of the problem.

Keep an eye on this, and make sure you have your own code reader on hand to log these events as they occur.
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