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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Viral_Jim on 23 February 2017, 17:11:13
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New cat-back sections are on the list for the desmond (slight blowing and looking underneath, there are half a dozen spots on the way out), had a ring round and my local places want no less than £380 to do the work :o.
Now I realise that everyone has to make a living, workshop costs etc etc. But the parts are available online with a 2yr warranty for under £100 so I would have thought it would be a similar cast for trade (at most). Even allowing £150 for the kit, I've yet to see an exhaust change take an hour, even allowing for two, that's still charging the sunny side of £110/hr :o. Even my BMW main stealer doesn't have the balls to try and charge that much!
Methinks they either don't want the work or are out for a scalp.
I really didn't want to DIY this as I don't have a lift or a pit, but for over £300, I'd best get my a$$ on the driveway.
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Eternal/ETS and DIY is the only way to go :y
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Eternal/ETS and DIY is the only way to go :y
Them's the beggers! I've been trying to think who they were for a good hour. I did the front section about 9 months ago as the flexi was knacked. Time to place an order I think
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New cat-back sections are on the list for the desmond (slight blowing and looking underneath, there are half a dozen spots on the way out), had a ring round and my local places want no less than £380 to do the work :o.
Now I realise that everyone has to make a living, workshop costs etc etc. But the parts are available online with a 2yr warranty for under £100 so I would have thought it would be a similar cast for trade (at most). Even allowing £150 for the kit, I've yet to see an exhaust change take an hour, even allowing for two, that's still charging the sunny side of £110/hr :o. Even my BMW main stealer doesn't have the balls to try and charge that much!
Methinks they either don't want the work or are out for a scalp.
I really didn't want to DIY this as I don't have a lift or a pit, but for over £300, I'd best get my a$$ on the driveway.
Eternal/ETS and DIY is the only way to go :y
I done a diy centre/backbox on SWMBO Zaffy took me a little over 2 hours on the driveway and not blowing my own trumpet but i only have use of one hand and half arm long as you have strength and abit of heat (blowtorch for me) it can be done :y
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I should be fine, I did the front section less than a yr ago so that joint should come apart just fine. For the rest I may just cut the rubber hangers ;D
Call me paranoid, but I don't like using heat under a car on the drive. A guy I knew from school died that way in his 20's. Admittedly that was welding, he did a Niki Lauda, to put it euphemistically. :'(
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Just fit a 2.0 system with one centre box, easier to fit & cheaper :y
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Interesting!
So the 2.0 system fits onto the 2.2 cat pipe (one with the flexor section on it)?
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Yes Tunnie confirmed it worked & several others have tried it :y
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=123557.msg1573246#msg1573246 (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=123557.msg1573246#msg1573246)
Just noticed you have an estate, could be different ???
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Thanks,
Reading the thread you linked, a user called Glynn confirmed it worked fine on his 2.2 FL estate.
Good enough for me :y
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I was going to fit a 2.0 exhaust on my Desmond, but when i looked into prices a bit further i found that i could get a two centre pipe version for very little extra so went that way.
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I was going to fit a 2.0 exhaust on my Desmond, but when i looked into prices a bit further i found that i could get a two centre pipe version for very little extra so went that way.
Yes I took that route too & what a job ;D I was on my own with just ramps :(
Lying in the dirt & heaving around those heavy Polish double skinned boxes ::)
If you get the angles wrong the pair of pipes refuse to line up correctly for the rear box
My JR terrior even crawled under & growled at those Polish gremlins ;D
The air tuned blue as the light faded, never again :P