Cracked Exhaust!!!

Sean_pop

Can anyone tell me where I can get a good cheap replacement exhaust for Renault Magane 1.4L 16v 2001.

Kenny Logins

Where have you tried?

alwayssideways

Look into getting it welded, would be a lot cheaper if it's possible.

MrFoxman360

Sean_pop wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where I can get a good cheap replacement exhaust for Renault Magane 1.4L 16v 2001.

if its just cracked, and not rotten then you would be much better off to get it repaired. Any half decent independent garage will have a MIG welder and will repair it, if its not rotten with rust.

Cheapest place to get replacement would be a scrap yard, but you get what you pay for with a second hand exhaust. A motor factors could order you a new spurious one and if you don't need that cat, it will be cheap enough.

Its a newer car so prob best to ask in the general motors forum rather than classics

Sean_pop

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Where have you tried?

I have not tried anywhere yet.

Sean_pop

MrFoxman360 wrote: »

if its just cracked, and not rotten then you would be much better off to get it repaired. Any half decent independent garage will have a MIG welder and will repair it, if its not rotten with rust.

Cheapest place to get replacement would be a scrap yard, but you get what you pay for with a second hand exhaust. A motor factors could order you a new spurious one and if you don't need that cat, it will be cheap enough.

Its a newer car so prob best to ask in the general motors forum rather than classics

I may need a replacement cat as engine management light has been on the dash for a while now an it says it is catalytic convertor. It is not failing emissions test and some how passed NCT test. But don't think I will be as lucky this time round.

MrFoxman360

Sean_pop wrote: »

I may need a replacement cat as engine management light has been on the dash for a while now an it says it is catalytic convertor. It is not failing emissions test and some how passed NCT test. But don't think I will be as lucky this time round.

Well if your test is due it will not pass with an light on the dash. If the cat is making a rattling sound then the cat may have broken apart and will need to be replace. However a MUCH more likely fault is the actual lambda (O2) sensor itself, in the exhaust, very common problem across many makes of car. If the exhaust is leaking in any place it will also fail.

Car99

Sean_pop wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where I can get a good cheap replacement exhaust for Renault Magane 1.4L 16v 2001.

Buy another megane and take the the exhaust off that , it's your cheapest option.

jimmyw

MrFoxman360 wrote: »

Well if your test is due it will not pass with an light on the dash.

Well having the light on in itself wont cause you to fail the test, but if its because the emissions are bad, it will.Our car had the EM light on last year during the test, and it still passed.Speaking of which, having a retest tomorrow.

Tzar Chasm

Gun Gum the fcuker

the exhaust on my BMW is more gum than metal

Sean_pop

MrFoxman360 wrote: »

Well if your test is due it will not pass with an light on the dash. If the cat is making a rattling sound then the cat may have broken apart and will need to be replace. However a MUCH more likely fault is the actual lambda (O2) sensor itself, in the exhaust, very common problem across many makes of car. If the exhaust is leaking in any place it will also fail.

Before I did test last year, I got someone to turn off light on the dash and passed. The light came back and he replaced the O2 sensor, but the light came back saying it was Catalytic Converter this time round.

He said I am burning more petrol as a result of this as well, which makes sense but its hard to say exactly how much more its burning.