Ford Focus estate exhaust

I have an 01 Focus estate that has recently started to blow a bit through the flexible exhaust coupling between the manifold & cat.

I understand that the flexible section is welded to the manifold and ford will sell you the entire piece €€€€€

Anyone know there I can get just the flexible section that I can clamp/weld in place of the old bit.

PS would it fail the NCT? (most of the time you cant even hear it)

Lex Luthor

I'm not familiar with the Focus exhaust but I would think it would be odd if the flexible section was welded directly to the manifold. Its probable the flexi section is its own piece and has a section either side of it that is clamped to the manifold at the front and cat section at the rear.

I recently had the flexi section of my exhaust on the Alfa blow through. Alfa were looking for just over €500 to supply & fit. I googled UK web sites and found a supplier willing to ship an OE flexi exhaust section to me over here for €210 all in and I got my local Advance Pitstop to fit it for €40.

Thanks for the info Lex I tried googling before without luck, the phrase "flexible exhaust" didn't produce anything worthwhile but "flexi exhaust" did. this one appears to be a welding job

Now I just need to work out which one of the 30 or so i actually need. any one out there know?

Just to follow up on this, finally had to get a replacement flexijoint welded in to pass the NCT.

I'd forgotton how quiet the car could be.