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Old 26 October 2003, 08:44 AM
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Just been watching 'Ameriacanshop' on Men and Motors this morning.
They were selling 'Cataclean'

£14.99 a bottle...and it reducts Co2 etc in your Cat... so it passes MOT?

anyone else heard of it.

they did the Tests with the cars on TV and it showed a BIG reduction in figures.
On New and Old cars.

Would this work on DeCat Scoobs as well?

its even been tested at an indepentent Lab in Sweden.. and the results were very good.. to the point they couldn't belive there was an additive on the market that could reduce Emisions!

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Old 26 October 2003, 08:45 AM
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You buy some and report back phil
Old 26 October 2003, 08:50 AM
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wot.. on a car i'm tryin to sell! lol

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Old 26 October 2003, 08:51 AM
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Would be interestng to know. Mine just failed with a reading of 6.53. It should be 0.30 max!!!???
Old 26 October 2003, 08:55 AM
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Here found it out on the web too.....


http://www.cataclean.com/pages/test.html


looks good

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Old 26 October 2003, 06:59 PM
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would it work on de cats?
Old 26 October 2003, 07:14 PM
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Phil,

Mentions it (in passing) in an article in Jap Performance issue 30 in the MR2 article.

Excerpt is as follows....

Having carried out a couple of before-and-after tests, MRD has found the MR2's catalytic converter isn't the big strangulation problem that some other cats would seem to be. Doing a test on one car showed that keeping it in place made no difference to the ultimate power output, especially onct it had been cleaned out with Cataclean. No, don't laugh, MRD has actually used this petrol additive to lower emissions on cars that otherwise would have needed an expensive replacement catalytic converter to pass SVA testing.

I assume that the stuff cleans the cat and in doing so, makes it more efficient and like new again. MRD can be contacted here if you want to ask them some questions. If you do, post your questions and answers up here


[Edited by Hanslow - 10/26/2003 7:14:52 PM]
Old 26 October 2003, 07:47 PM
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LOL!!! We sell a product at work called Caterclean. I don't think you'd wanna use it on your car though, would strip the paint off!

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lol
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lol
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Know the people who make this stuff, used it in my van (80,000 mile diesel) and there was a big improvement. The van was feeling a bit asthmatic beforehand though, I suppose there has to be a build up of sh**e before there is a benefit. As most of the people running scoobies seem to use Optimax which has cleaning additives anyway the benefits would probably be quite small. I don't think it can do any harm though and for the sake of 15 quid it's probably worth a try if your emissions are too high.
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