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Cheers bob 👍🏻

Well done Phil 👏🏻👏🏻

So far did the NEC and I blame Bryan So far spats fitted and painted and a fix on Tom's lip before the show and words ouch and being into G6 dealer options I found a second A pillar light, and find time to do more shows and drive when I find time Just missed out on doing the Alps run in France which the club is asked to join every year. Finding time to drive is hard and I have a couple of outstanding ones plus Ireland, maybe 2026 as life paperwork getting in the way my tail end 2025 is get a TRD front brace again and custom manifold and oh MOT Sept

After 19 years and 141k I need to change the FOS bearing. Might as well do the other side while im there..

This is now done so on wards to tidying up other bits and bobs

Thanks kev. The interest in jap stuff seems to be becoming more popular these days. No pics mate. It was what I call powder blue? In colour. Must admit mk1&3 were prettier

If lambda is spot on then high CO is likely to be cat itself or an exhaust blow on the engine side of the cars lambda sensor. It can also be imbalence between cylinders caused by injector issues or air leak in one of the intake runners but that's less likely. With unknown history and if there's no obvious exhaust blow I would start with cat.

Could be that. Don't know yet. It has a Powerflow cat-back exhaust on so it may have been done at the same time

AHH, hollowed out cat that could explain it. Old school mod for more powaaa

As the car is new to me and the boy we're not going to do a great deal to it over the summer. Get the paint as good as we can, wrap the spoiler and scoop. He's 12 and brought up on GTA and Forza etc so he wants to fit under-glow - not my thing but it's his car! And then just enjoy the car. Take it to a few shows and drives at the weekends and stuff. Then over winter we'll take the bonnet off and respray it, put some form of anti-corrosion treatment on the underside, the rear discs and pads may well need doing but then etc

Ah I see. However I think then he is implying that it doesn't need a cat and they're swapping one worth a bit to sell for scrap for a cheap non-OEM one which doesn't really need to be done. They've given it plenty of runs in the machine and it's not passing and they've now ruled out everything else they can think of. There is a possibility when the exhaust was done the cat was knocked out too so it might just be the casing that's still there. The kid I bought it off said it still had the cat but who knows. Anyway, ultimately it's not the most expensive job and the car isn't rotting and needing sub-frames or sussie arms etc and I factored some bills into the purchase price so I'm still happy. I'll have what is otherwise a nice T Sport on the road for less than £3k, which looking around the second hand market, is fair. And looking at the MOT history of most of them, particularly the cheaper ones, they all have corrosion advisories and other stuff that will need doing so pretty much any will need some work at some point soon

Sly' probably didn't mean they would reuse it on another car, but they might be tempted to sell it for the scrap value which used to be around £200.

They've done everything and yes, they have over-revved it to try and get it through, ruled everything else out they can think of. Put in cat clean, took it for a blast, full oil, filter and plug change, checked the MAF etc. I trust the garage 100% - they wouldn't be after a 23yo cat with 108k on it for a model of car they don't get through the doors. Used them for years and they've always been dead straight.

My fiesta struggled with emissions since it's not driven much and tends to short trip a lot too. Emissions was high at mot time till I got in the driver's seat and held engine at 5k rpm for just over a minute solid. Could see on the machine Instantly the point where the cat ignited and emissions tanked right down and passed easily. Everyone said I needed a cat, nop genuine one always gets the job done. I'd be bit Sus if they want to take your Celica cat. It's gonna be worth more than any aftermarket replacement they put on. Make sure u get the genuine one back, Although these days I think cat value has dropped big time, can't remember the last time I heard about cat theft

Garage just called. They've spent a good few hours on it and still can't get the CO low enough and they're convinced it is the cat. I'm happy enough for them to get a new one on - I was expecting to have to pay something out so all good assuming this does actually fix it 🤣

So with 6months of 2025 under our belts, I thought it was time to bump this thread. Unfortunately, my plans to get the CS out to events by March are long gone out the window. In fact, I've rarely driven it all 😞 I've sorted some minor electrical issues and had the ECU rebuilt but I've encountered some major leaks along the way (Crank shaft seal, rocker cover gasket, Cam shaft Seal) I've also done new timing belt and water pump plus Aux drive belt. My latest leak is from the Turbo, which unfortunately has been confirmed to be goosed, so hopefully I can get that rebuilt and back in ASAP.

Well done mate , your car is becoming a bit of a magazine star recently ! Look forward to getting a copy when its out I didnt know you used to have a Capri , got any pics of it ?

The difference between the most zealous tester and a reasonable one can be enormous! Some will create an advisory out of surface rust on heavy-section metal which would be good for another decade... or two.

I had a light blue capri mk11 years ago. Always liked the bulge on the bonnet. As all our cars were driven on the day. My celica he said was the worst on the rear as he drove on that bend. Always thought the capri was renowned for being a bit twitchy on the rear 😃

The Girls together Hetty ready for France and passing Dijon as heading to stay that way and Roxy sporting her new rear Curren Spats and ready for anything at a drop of a hat

According to my garage that's nothing working with them at the moment. It was a note on previous MOTs. Looking at the history the last 3 or 4 mentioned it but my chap didn't think they even need to mention it as it's such minor surface rust. Hopefully they'll be able to do the footie and plug change tomorrow and get her through

Those arms are an easy replacement item so nothing to worry about there. Getting good quality replacement would be the biggest task. Can't believe my arms are 25 years old and over 90k on them and bushes and ball joint still good. On my ford they be lucky to last 10k miles

The garage is going to try and sort it tomorrow for me, if not Thursday. They just need to squeeze the service in and see what the computer says about the VSC warning. I'll be sure to update once I know where it's heading.

That all sounds encouraging for you. Is the retest this week?