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CEL on, P0420 Code threw

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Old Jan 4, 2007
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CEL on, P0420 Code threw

as stated in the title I got the code:
P0420 Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 1)

Any ideas as to what it is? I am hoping a sensor, and not the cat, but I could be wrong about what the code means too.
Any help at all is appreciated
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Old Jan 8, 2007
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catalytic converter could b bad, sensor would throw its own code, so id prolly get a new cat
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I forgot to follow up; no more code.
I ran some fuel injector cleaner and some 89 octane, and after some hard driving it went off. So there was some crap in my cat or sensor that finally burned out.
On another forum everyone was telling me it couldn't be that, but I win lol
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