yeh it does smell quite strong of petrol and if its in garage and i start it up only take a few seconds befor u can start to smell it

Stand behind the car and rev it.

If it's a strong petrol smell chances are it's a de-cat

right thx for the replies, ill go have another look under car in a min and tell u what i see

Small box half way down the "pipe" could be either the silencer or the cat.

Silencer normally round, cats are usually like a squished box.

Sometimes people bash out the internals on the cat so it looks like you have one.

Others just replace the pipe with the cat on with a dec-cat pipe;

is your exhaust really raspy?? sometimes the internals can be taken out of the cat so it may look like ones still there....

if its been de-cat'd it wont have a cat

Phil

as it ses rele, is the the small box half way down the pipe?