VW Jetta/Catalytic Converter

[ContainednCary]

This morning my check engine light started flashing when I turned the ignition. Made a funny noise and the car shook a little. Only lasted a few seconds. Drove/sounded normally afterwards. Never happened before. Had a problem with engine light because of a defective water pump. Had it fixed in October and it's been OK since then. Car manual tells me that blinking engine light is caused by faulty cat converter. Was this just a glitch or should I be worried? Is it safe to drive it without getting it checked out? It's a 2005 VW Jetta. Don't want to spend money on an inspection if it's unnecessary.

[headingtoDenver]

A quick search on the ole interwebz seem to all point to coilpacks and not necessarily your Catalytic Converter. Of course, if you keep driving it with bad coilpacks, you could end up ruining your CAT.

[NWarty]

If it's a 1.8T, yep, coilpacks

[maggiekate]

Originally Posted by ContainednCary

This morning my check engine light started flashing when I turned the ignition. Made a funny noise and the car shook a little. Only lasted a few seconds. Drove/sounded normally afterwards. Never happened before. Had a problem with engine light because of a defective water pump. Had it fixed in October and it's been OK since then. Car manual tells me that blinking engine light is caused by faulty cat converter. Was this just a glitch or should I be worried? Is it safe to drive it without getting it checked out? It's a 2005 VW Jetta. Don't want to spend money on an inspection if it's unnecessary.

I had a honda in for service two days later that check engine light came on had it read and got the code it was the cat converter. The light was turned off at dealer but came on again it never did flash and ran OK.
car 2002 model. get the code read from auto zone