Exhaust fell off

[Deleted User]

On way to work very early this morning, my exhaust fell off at the front. Continued to drive the half a mile left of my journey with it hanging off. Loud noises and sparks every where, even had to drive past a police station! :rotfl:

Got a local garage near work to come and collect it and see what needs doing. Hope it doesn't cost much.

Exhaust was only replaced 2 years ago from cat back.

Strider590

Your quite lucky, i've known cars go airborn when the exhaust has fallen at the front end.

[Deleted User]

Garage just phoned, they say it needs a new cat, link pipe and gasket. £206.50 all in. Ouch!

mcjordi

get the old cat back.. worth a few quid as scrap

[Deleted User]

mcjordi wrote: »

get the old cat back.. worth a few quid as scrap

How much would a Pug 206 cat be worth in scrap? :cool:

s_b

Deleted_User wrote: »

How much would a Pug 206 cat be worth in scrap? :cool:

not a lot they are usually only half cats on pewgots anyway
you wont get it back usually anyway because supplier gets replacements cheaper on the understanding old cats are returned
this is why you dont get itinerants coming in anymore asking for cats as they know the markets gone so they now ask if yee have any old battrees

JQ.

Strider590 wrote: »

Your quite lucky, i've known cars go airborn when the exhaust has fallen at the front end.

I've been a passenger in a car when this has happened, not a very pleasant experience.

LincolnshireYokel

Once upon a day you coudl simply stop, pick up the bit that fell off, and then when you got home cut some pipe to replace the rotten bit and weld it all back together. I had exhausts on some of my cars from the 60's and 70's that were six or seven bits welded together, with a seam every two inches .I would imagine you're not allowed to do that these days.

[Deleted User]

It has been blowing at bit at the front the past week. I had a look under when it first started doing it and it looked like it was just rotting a bit where the cat joins onto the rest of the pipe. Probably all that was needed was a little bit of pipe welding on. Rest of the cat was probably fine.

Can't help feeling done over on this but what could I have done due to being away from home and car not drivable.

societys_child

LincolnshireYokel wrote: »

Once upon a day you coudl simply stop, pick up the bit that fell off, and then when you got home cut some pipe to replace the rotten bit and weld it all back together. I had exhausts on some of my cars from the 60's and 70's that were six or seven bits welded together, with a seam every two inches .I would imagine you're not allowed to do that these days.

I still weld my exhaust back together, it's over 7 years old now :j
(not the car, the exhaust)

I've had to do a bit of chassis welding as well . . and it's only 24 years old . .:cool:

waynedance

You should have got it looked at when you first knew it was blowing instead of waiting for it to fall off. May have not needed the cat after all only got self to blame for lack of maintenance.