BLOWNJROCK

I was on the way to school driving normally and all of a sudden i look at my gauge cluster and see that i'm throwing a CEL. I don't know what I did. I took it to autozone and had them read the CEL they said that it was a P0420. they said i had a leak or something, or something is wrong with my cat converter. I am running no test pipe. I called my friend who is a mechanic and he looked stuff up and it was my catylitic converter. I don't know why it would throw a check engine light though. The only thing i've ever done to the cat or anything close to it, was when I put the intercooler in. I took out a hose that led to this little machine that led to my cat. its on the rightside inside my bumper. but all i did to it was take off the hose that led from the pipe that connected the comptech air box and my throttlebody. I cut it off and put a little air filter in its place. so basically its this filter then this machine then it leads to my cat. so i'm not sure. please help. i will put pictures when i take off the bumper

revhi

P0420 Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold

Your cats probably going. Its covered by a 7/75k warrenty, but the FI might have lost that for you.

BLOWNJROCK

so how do i fix it? when i bought the car since they said that if honda installs the supercharger that the warrenty will still be on.

revhi

Take it to Honda and see if they say you need a new cat. Go from there. Cats are expensive. All else fails go test pipe.

BLOWNJROCK

so its not because, of that little air box thing? its because of my cat?

BLOWNJROCK

its not because of that gold thing with hoses?

Salaska

If your Air Pump (the gold thing with hose) had a problem one of the following CEL's would appear:

DTC P0410 : Air Pump Circuit Malfunction
DTC P1410 : Air Pump Malfunction
DTC P1415 : Air Pump Electrical Current Sensor Low Voltage
DTC P1416 : Air Pump Electric Sensor Circuit High Voltage

nibble

if you have to replace O2 sensor, let me invite you to this thread.

DIY: replacing secondary Oxygen Sensor

BLOWNJROCK

ohh so my thing is just going bad then? does this usually happen??

BLOWNJROCK

hey is the car drivable?