Dummy exhausts??

Anan1

I'm driving a new Subaru Legacy diesel estate for today & tomorrow. It has two chrome exhaust 'outlets', one on each side - both of which are dummies. The actual exhaust outlets are on the bottom of the pipes, facing downwards, a couple of inches before the chrome ends. Is it just me, or is this a bit ridiculous?

Saab Ed

Ridiculous :cool:

biggybum

astheticlly pleasing i presume. Its all about looks !!

Drummerboy08

They do look the biz though...:cool:

Yakult

I saw a bmw with a twin exhaust, when I got closer one of the pipes was just welded on. Thought it was quiet stupid especially on what looked like a expensive car tbh.

The funniest I saw tho was a crappy modified car which had what looked like a duel exhust far away, when I came close he just had a 4" pipe cut and threw in on. No weld or anything, you coul even see straight thru it to the ground hahah.

Seanieke

My boss at work bought a 05 BMW bike last week, exhausts both sides, one dirty, one clean as a whistle, he wasn't to pleased when I pointed out his "twin canned sports bike" had a dummy exhaust!

unkel

Stupid. Is this an aftermarket mod or does it come like that on the car as standard?

Barr

Bet they make the car look the business , I would have no problem with it as long as the car does actually have a twin pipe anyways

Gary ITR

Pic?

Anan1

unkel wrote: »

Stupid. Is this an aftermarket mod or does it come like that on the car as standard?

No, this is how it left the factory. I'll take a couple of pics tomorrow.

L-M

Funniest thing I saw was this fool revving his freezing cold Civic. As he tore off, yup, white smoke out one of the two exhausts... Idiot lol

Anan1

Pics, as promised!

Gary ITR

Maybe they are for fooling the NCT guys?

robtri

i was about to say riddiculous, but they don't look half bad on that car, in two minds now..

Cyrus

bit silly

even more silly is the lexus IS-F

Creamy Goodness

robtri wrote: »

i was about to say riddiculous, but they don't look half bad on that car, in two minds now..

imo, if something serves no practical purpose it shouldn't be on the car.

Cyrus

heres the is-f

id expect it to at least have proper quads, they are all the rage for performance saloons nowadays dontcha know

Anan1

Jesus, they're bad!

Stevie Dakota

I had no idea car makers were at this, shameful stuff, the engineers must cringe at what the stylist are doing.

unkel

Stevie Dakota wrote: »

I had no idea car makers were at this, shameful stuff, the engineers must cringe at what the stylist are doing.

+1

Eoin

Hang on, is someone trying to say that a purely cosmetic piece of kit was put on a car? Never thought I'd see the day.

L-M

eoin wrote: »

Hang on, is someone trying to say that a purely cosmetic piece of kit was put on a car? Never thought I'd see the day.

I could comment on that, but the words don't seem to come out of my head the way I want them too...

Mr.David

The Ferrari California has fake pipes too, similar to the lexus ones. Whats the world coming to when a FERRARI has fake pipes? WHY? Is anyone really going to think your a pussy cos you have a Ferrari with only 2 pipes?!

Stephen

The current-model Civic 1.8 petrols have those two fancy triangular exhausts. The diesel ones have them too, but they're fake on those - the diesel exhaust, similar to the Subaru one in the OP points down towards the road a few inches behind the fake triangle exhaust.

Wossack

Stephen wrote: »

The current-model Civic 1.8 petrols have those two fancy triangular exhausts. The diesel ones have them too, but they're fake on those - the diesel exhaust, similar to the Subaru one in the OP points down towards the road a few inches behind the fake triangle exhaust.

And the ones that dont use the triangle exhausts, have blanking plates put in instead - like what they'd put in for the button if you dont have aircon on the dashboard

looks horrid

Stevie Dakota

Stephen wrote: »

The current-model Civic 1.8 petrols have those two fancy triangular exhausts. The diesel ones have them too, but they're fake on those - the diesel exhaust, similar to the Subaru one in the OP points down towards the road a few inches behind the fake triangle exhaust.

On no...I always thought they were far to tight to the plastic surround (dirt and heat) but thought it was just good Honda engineering! I'm crushed.

Stephen

Wossack wrote: »

And the ones that dont use the triangle exhausts, have blanking plates put in instead - like what they'd put in for the button if you dont have aircon on the dashboard

looks horrid

They're the 1.4 petrols. They offer fake triangle exhausts as a dealer fit extra for those :pac:

Wossack

Stephen wrote: »

They're the 1.4 petrols. They offer fake triangle exhausts as a dealer fit extra for those :pac:

r3nu4l

To be honest, I'd rather have fake ones like the ones on this thread than the ones that are actually connected to this car! :pac:

Zube

I thought Ford's recent attack of fake vents was pretty stupid, but great big fake exhausts?

Crazy stuff.

colm_mcm

Corolla Compressor, also guilty


only one of the tailpipes is connected

chickenhawk

The IsF and Ferrari have fake pipes to reduce lifting at high speed.....apparently.

conneem-TT

chickenhawk wrote: »

The IsF and Ferrari have fake pipes to reduce lifting at high speed.....apparently.

I read it was because of their in bumper design, they would get too hot and melt the surrounding trim if they were connected. I don't have any issue with the ones like on the IS-F of California as at least the exhasut gases are still directed out of the fancy openings.

biggybum

It boils down to they simply don't need them but they look the piece... Same can be said for car modifiers, most cars dont need spoilers, turbo vents etc its all about looks !!!!

Guy:Incognito

robtri wrote: »

i was about to say riddiculous, but they don't look half bad on that car, in two minds now..

the point is that if they are going to the bother of putting them on, why not just make the real exhaust like that?

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Stekelly wrote: »

the point is that if they are going to the bother of putting them on, why not just make the real exhaust like that?

On the Subaru they are both functioning tailpipes. They exit pointing to the ground as many diesels do so that the soot that the engine produces is kept away from the back of the car. Visually, they appear to exit rearwards but its just a styling feature.

Guy:Incognito

Here you go Anan. http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090406.p.ExhaustPipeCover

Fix that problem right up for you.

L-M

Stekelly wrote: »

Here you go Anan. http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090406.p.ExhaustPipeCover

Fix that problem right up for you.

Lovely stuff, I know some one looking for one of those. Work perfectly for classics:p