it is funny to read this because for the last year I was a service advisor for a chrysler jeep store and man let me tell you, **** **** ****, no qc and no back up from that company. I have never seen so many off the truck **** boxes in my life, no here at the Lincoln Mercury store I have to say that there are not nearly as many problems with the vehicle, alot are user induced.

 

american cars still have the most problems, no matter what. its like a fact of life



today i did a $900 exhaust job on a 3.0 v6 camry,flex pipe rotted out, it is one-piece with the cat...aka very expensive. typical toyota problem, but at least on a 12 year old toyota the exhaust nuts/.bolts zip right off, hell on a 4 year old ford you pretty much know youre gonna snap every stud/bolt/ or nut on the exhaust, they suck.



kevin.

 

thats like such a straight exaust, why so much?

converters also?

 

on the 95 3.0 v6 camry the exhaust manifold's both go into one pipe (the y-pipe) which has two built in flex pipes, this pipe is one-piece with the main catalytic converter. there's also a lot of pipe because its a horrible design (the rear bank makes a 180 degree turn, it comes off the motor going towards the front then flex pipe, then 180 degree merging bend with the front bank's flex pipe)



so it's a complicated expensive piece since the cat is there.



she's lucky it wasnt a california-emissions car, i would've sold her a bunch of o2 sensors too (by the time you get them out of a 135kmile old car they're useless).



The rest of the exhaust is cheap, its a resonator to rear and then a hump pipe to muffler. both pieces are like a couple hundred bucks.



******* bosal exhausts suck the front pipe was hitting the engine mount bracket and made it sound like the exhaust was leaking, so i bent it back and then it was fine, bosal SUCKS. walker is normally pretty good quality aftermarket stuff, but for foreign cars i can get bosal quicker.



kevin.