Anyone know a good place to buy exhuast? I'm finding it impossible to get a downpipe that fits for my 205 XS. There seems to be 2 different ones and everywhere stocks the one that i dont need. One Peugeot dealer wanted £90 for one, another £140, for a metre long downpipe FFS.
Unless i have any luck i think i'm gonna have to visit the scrappie this weekend to try and find one
Tried Eurocarparts?
Go to Kwik-Fit, ATS, or other big-name exhaust place.
Say "Can you fit me a front downpipe please"
They say "Yup, come back in an hour or two"
If they don't have one that fits, they'll order it in.
German and Swedish? (yes they are GSF (can you guess what the F is) now).
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You'll be very lucky to get mild steel to weld to cast iron and not just crack off along the weld the first time you start the engine.
It probably has some sort of ball joint on the manifold end that needs to remain free and flexible unless you want your exhaust to bounce between the underside of the car and the road when you start it.
-- James
Been there, done that, s*it quality, dont fir properly, never again!
Discovered yesterday theres a GSF about a mile down the road, but spoke to the guy on the phone, and its not the right one ;( Getting a little peeved now, and even considering buying from Peugeot
doh :( back to the drawing board
balljoint? nah dont think so. this is a 80s designed Peugeot - do you really think they would have thought about something clever like that. the exhuast is bolted to the gearbox (exhaust ports at the front) - any movement from the engine is absorbed by the rubber mounts on the underside of the car
how difficult is mild steel to bend? how hot would it need to be?
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I've always used places like that on all my cars, and never had any problem.
Surely the exhaust either fits or does not ! If it's leaking, take it back and tell them to sort it !
They couldnt, they didnt stock the proper one. Bunch of fecking monkeys. Besides it would be about the same price to buy one from Peugeot and do it myself, which i'd rather do coz at least i know its done properly, with a proper, quality downpipe.
LOL !
If it's the same money, then what are you messing about at ?
Buy the Pug one, and fit it. Job done :)
And then come back exactly a year later for a new one...
Heh, my father-in-law bought a lifetime-warranty from Kwik-Fit (about £100 IIRC) in a special deal they had running about 8 years ago. He kept the car another 5 years and got about 6 exhausts out of it! :-)
You can bend mild steel cold with a suitable machine - think electrical conduit. But I doubt with a hand operated type due to the effort involved at exhaust pipe sizes.
The other way so as not to need a mandrel system is to fill it with sand and stopper the ends. This stops it collapsing at the bend.
But i'm gonna go see a man in a hut tomorrow about welding it up - that will cost a fraction of the price and i'll be well happy. If not i'll go to a scrapyard to see whats in there, and if that fails, then i'll go to the Pug garage ;)
Its not the actual pipe thats the wrong shape, its only the flange bit that joins to the manifold. Anyway, got the car up on some ramps today and a bloke replaced all the bolts with proper ones (i bodged it together abut 6 months ago - didnt tell him that though :)), and with a windy gun and a bit of brute force he got it all to seal properly. So now its bodged a bit more professionally ;)
He remarked about the clutch being very on/off and not much in between, causing the engine to rock on heavy accleration and he reckons that this is putting stress on the downpipe/manifold. Never thought of that before, but seems a good explantion. Will be investing in some new engine mounts soon...
Doesn't that mean you need a new clutch ?
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