alcazar

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Had mine decatted by a "trusted Subaru Tuning Specialist", about three years ago, being reassured by them thet it would be OK for the MoT as long as I took it to them.

This year, no dice, "we are pushing people towards a sports cat, not full decat".

Shame they didn't say thet when they took £600 off me for the decat!

Anyone PM me with a solution, please? And no lectures thanks.

Alcazar

briforbes

£600 for a de-cat? Were they wearing a mask?

Depending how old your car is it may not need a cat for the MOT, or you can get hold of a cat (ebay has a constant, cheap supply) and swap it in just for the test.

alcazar

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No, no masks Remember it had TWO cats, so the cost was a downpipe and centre section, all in 3" stainless.

Sounds awesome, so whatever I do, I don't wanna lose that.

Alcazar

GazTheHat

Take it you didn't keep your original exhaust then?

The alternative is a sports cat in the downpipe. But they're not cheap, around £500-700 new, check ebay though or the for sale here.

briforbes

Garages must love you guys......have a look here for the real price of a sports cat:

http://www.scoobyworld.co.uk/catalog...products_id=76

Alcazar, was the £600 for a full exhaust system, inclusive of up-pipe all the way back to and including the back box?

alcazar

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All except their back box, which I already had.

Alcazar

New_scooby_04

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Get a Ninja sports cat DP from Scoobyworld mate. £299.

VERY good piece of kit!

The garage shouldn't have given you the asurance that it would be ok to have a decat with regards to the MOT, but I guess to be fair, the changes to the MOT system do make it harder for such places to "turn a blind eye" nowdays!

Ns04

gaz-cole

at least dick turpin wore a mask! but joking a side there are some mot stations that are more leaneant than others and worry more about safety aspects of the car tyres brakes overall condition than a weather or not a cats there

Tone Loc

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That used to be the case but with the new computerised MOTs it's getting a lot harder. The emissions test still must be passed and be done during the alloted time that the test takes place.... having a nicely cat'd standard family car ready to do the emissions bit is a bit naughty if they were to do that .

It may pass with just the centre cat and that would be easiler to swap out come MOt time.

£600 for a downpipe and centre ..... should be more in the order of £300, even back then (paid £275 for mine back in 2001/22).

Tony.

wolfie28

As mentioned Scoobyworld is one of the cheapest (but good quality). Is your system 3" or 2.5" cause there are less 3" sports cat about.

wrxseeker

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According to the site this only fits classic - newage ones appear more expensive: £505 to be precise.

Think the TSL sports cat downpipe is the cheapest new newage one.

New_scooby_04

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Bugger, sorry!! I thought the one for New ages was similarly cheap!

Ns04

StiX

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It is - Post 73:

https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobyworl...t525487p3.html


Where did the £505 come from?

alex_00s

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Dont you know of any 'friendly' MOT men? It'll work out alot cheaper (circa £100-£150 tops)

mikeGG

Just to clear things up. At the moment the Ninja downpipe with Sports Cat is only available for the 1993-2000 Imprezas at £299.99. We will have the New age version of this ready in around 6-8 weeks time at a similar price. The price of £505.00 refers to the only sports catted d/p's we can get hold of up until the Ninja one is released. Not long to go now for 01-05 owners!!!

Mike - Scoobyworld

chocolate_o_brian

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hi alcazar, not looking to hijack your thread but im in the same position... for the mot should i replace both the original downpipe and centre section (for two cats) or just say either the downpipe or centre (for one cat)...

i heard from a local garage (no they dont wear masks either) that most if not all scoob turbos fail emissions so they just pass them...

if i had both cats on the car and it still failed... what am i too do?

andy - oh its a 95 wrx...

gaz-cole

go to the garage you mentioned that passes the subarus which fails the emissions test job done

GazTheHat

That's for a classic though, they don't do a ninja sportscat for the newage yet. The TSL thundercat is about £500 and others i've seen are around the £600 mark, hence why i posted.

Doesn't bother me though, as i've full decat

StiX

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A MY95 WRX (pre Sep 95 I think) is exempt from the cat test, as it doesn't feature on the DOT register as its an import. There is no exact match.

I used to have one, and MOT'd mine on the non-cat test which it passed easily, as its a lot more lenient.

DannyBoy007

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My garage only charged me £10 to switch the exhaust back to my standard one and then to switch it back to my 5Zigen once the test was complete.

Couldn't argue with that.