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My car had a hard time setting the Catalyst readiness state. I finally drove around with the OBDII tester plugged in until it came back as ready. Unlike the link above, the Bently Porsche repair manual says you need to drive between 40 - 60 mph for ~20 minutes where the engine RPM is less than 3k to set the catalyst readiness. It also recommends idling the car for 3 minutes at the end of the dby racyclist - Main Forum
Thats for the replies, I almost made a costly mistake buying the wrong part. It makes sense that the first converter is the one being tested, but it seems backward that Porsche doesn't test the bigger cat instead. In my state smog is OBDII testing only so I guess I'll never know if the second cat is bad. I suppose I shouldn't complain too much the smaller cat is cheaper at autoatlanta. Mike,by racyclist - Main Forum
My 2001 Boxster will occasionally throw a 0430 code. It has never thrown any other code and I've checked out the graphs from the 02sensors and they appear to be working fine. My question is which driver's side catalytic converter is it? The 97 - 99 cars have one catalytic converter right before the muffler and 02 sensors on either side of it. From 2000 on Porsche added a catalytic converterby racyclist - Main Forum