A friend is offering to sell me his old car-cheap. It runs OK, but it's quite noisy. He said the guy he took it to quoted him $1200 to fix the exhaust system. He got another car instead.
He isn't mechanically-minded, I don't know who he took the car to or what they said needed to be done.
I have started the car, and given it a quick once-over. From the tailpipe to the converter looks quite new. The converter looks iffy. The exhaust is leaking somewhere in front of the converter but I don't see exhaust in the engine compartment (viewed from the top).
I looked at some on-line shops and didn't see anything that would cost that much to replace.
Am I missing something? Or was my friend just being played for a sucker/misunderstood what was quoted for?
PB