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Old 05-26-2021, 11:04 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Niceboxster View Post
Yea I'm not sure how they figured out it was the cats. If they just pulled the p0430 and concluded that it was the cats just from that I'd be pretty upset. I bought an installed a new gas cap because my old one had cracks in the o ring. I guess I'll just drive it for a bit and see if the cel turns off. Thank you for your help!
Easy: P0430 is the code for a failing main three way catalytic converter. I seriously doubt the gas cap had anything to do with it as that is not what the DME is looking at, and a gas cap failure code is completely different, usually a large vacuum leak code such as P0445, not a cat failure code.
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