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Ernie

2000 Absolutely Red Celica GT
Post # 1953581091 5 Years ago  

My Check Engine light came on and I had it diagnosed. The Cat was bad. It's still under warranty for 80K miles or 8 yrs.. My question is if I have the Cat replaced with a new one will I lose any gain or will the new Cat give me any gain. The CEL only come on occasionly after I reset it.
Joined: 5 Years ago · From: Ohio

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CRBN BLU


2002 Carbon Blue Celica GT
Post # 1953581252 5 Years ago  

Someone told you it was the catalytic converter? I've been getting that same code, and I was told it was the o2 sensor. Those will go bad before the cat. You might want to check into it.
Joined: 7 Years ago · From: Hampton, VA

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Lucky_317
Mike

2000 Silver Celica GT-S 6spd
Post # 1953581293 5 Years ago  

here's the text for the P0420 code...

P0420
After the engine and the catalyst are warmed up, and while the
vehicle is driven within the set vehicle and engine speed range,
the waveforms of the oxygen sensors (bank 1 sensor 1 and
bank 1 sensor 2) have the same amplitude
(2 trip detection logic)
Trouble area..
 Gas leakage on exhaust system
 Open or short in heated oxygen sensor circuit
 Heated oxygen sensor
 Three-way catalytic converter

INSPECTION PROCEDURE
HINT:
Read freeze frame data using TOYOTA hand-held tester or OBD II scan tool. Because freeze frame records
the engine conditions when the malfunction is detected, when troubleshooting it is useful for determining
whether the vehicle was running or stopped, the engine warmed up or not, the air-fuel ratio lean or rich, etc.
at the time of the malfunction.
1 Are there any other codes (besides DTC P0420) being output?
YES Go to relevant DTC chart.
NO
2 Check gas leakade on exhaust system.
NG Repair or replace.
OK
3 Check oxygen sensor (bank 1 sensor 1) (See page DI-49 ).
NG Repair or replace.
OK
4 Check oxygen sensor (bank 1 sensor 2) (See page DI-58 ).
NG Repair or replace.
OK
Replace three-way catalytic converter.




basically it could be either your 02 sensor OR your cat.
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