jds88vert

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.

teknics

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.

Rob x-7

thats like such a straight exaust, why so much?

converters also?

teknics

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.