Hi -
Toyota Camry wagon here - exhaust needs some work (wife's car sounds like it has a header; a crappy header :-)).
Underneath the car (and looks to be downstream of the CC) is a metallic mesh encircling the exhaust pipe (the mesh looks like steel braiding) and right underneath the driver's compartment this mesh enclosed item is (was) attached to a flange, which leads to the muffler, by a maybe 6" piece of exhaust pipe:
------------\ \__________( )_________|| ( ) || mesh thing ( ) || --> to muffler /----------( )---------|| ------------/ break flange
Between this flange and the mesh-encircled pipe it has broken away (there's a bracket holding the pipe up an inch or so behind the break). I'm not familiar with the mesh-enclosed thing but will have to go to Midas? to have this break fixed. Attaching to the existing flange is no big deal - but the upstream end will have to be attached to this mesh-encased thing and I'm not sure if it can be welded to or not (part of my question).
Can someone tell me what this mesh-encircled thing might be, how the tailpipe is attached to it, and possibly what dollar range the repair sounds like it might be in? I want to know what I'm looking at before I go to a repair place.
Thanks.
Mike