Does my TD5 have a catalytic converter?

I have read various posts and apparently early TD5s didn't have a catalytic converter. Mine is a 2000 10P engine and the paperwork states there is a catalytic converter. However, lots of posts on the web claim pre 2001 vehicles didn't.

It is an LHD model which I believe was originally sold to either France or Poland. Is it possible to check from the VIN number somehow?

So I've taken pictures...is the silver mesh thing the catalytic converter? I presume the mid section box is just a silencer, is that right?

Had a look on here http://www.expeditiongear.co.za/cu5/Decoding-your-Land-Rover-VIN-Number.aspx

Engine type code is an ´8´ so I guess it has a cat.
Full VIN is SALLDVA88YA******

The silver mesh thing is just a flexible joint. If there;'s a catalytic converter it would be on the L shaped pipe that goes from the manifold to the joint just forward of the big silencer. However, I think you've had a new exhaust at some point so it's anybody's guess. It'll look like a small silencer on the horizontal section of that L shaped pipe.

No cat in them pics
My old 01 disco had no cat as std

Cheers for the replied. I didn't think it had a cat either...

https://assets.publishing.service.g...-standards-for-road-vehicles-19th-edition.pdf
Very detailed on emissions.

CAT fitted after 2002 update. Although it's a DPF really, not a catalytic converter.

l am told that a post 2002 TD5 is capable of passing the MOT without one fitted, as the engine is very "clean".

So the answer is.....
yours hasn't got one.....
yours doesn't need one.....
win win!!!
(Mines a MY2000 and doesn't have one either!)

I've got a 2004 with no CAT or DPF for the last 3 years, always passes it's MOT with emissions lower than half the fail level.

lightning said:

CAT fitted after 2002 update. Although it's a DPF really, not a catalytic converter.

l am told that a post 2002 TD5 is capable of passing the MOT without one fitted, as the engine is very "clean".

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I think you are wrong there, land rovers did not get DPFs until about 2007 when they went to Euro4, before then tdi td5 if fitted/specced had a DOC.

My 2001 defender 90 had a cat fitted.

raywin said:

My 2001 defender 90 had a cat fitted.

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Yes it will be a DOC.

I meant EGR not DPF

Sorry l thought that a diesel "CAT" as fitted to Defender TD5 is more of a smoke filter than a true CAT.