willdabeast

might as well give it a go, cheers.

No Kwikfit are mad expensive around here, I usually go to independant, small garages. I suspect they'll charge something around £350 to replace the silencer. Local garage cut and weld job with replacement split pipe £120. I can get a split pipe kit for £20/30 off of ebay but unsure if these are MOT worth and I don't own an angle grinder (perhaps a cheap puzzle saw will do for one job?), or a front silencer complete kit for £60 ish, but then I'm unsure if the bolts will come out and how it attaches to the rear end of the exhaust system.

Hi there, the flexi pipe on my mk2 1.2 Fabia needs replacing, driving around Kent right now sounding like a rocket ship taking off. I've gone to a few garages who have quoted a fair bit with, however one garage a few alternative/cheap options. I've also been told my exhaust is quite rusty and probably the whole thing needs replacing soon. I was thinking of going for the cheapest option which was to have the garage buy the flexi pipe part and weld it on, to avoid having to remove the manifold bolts, which apparently are quite rusty and most likely atleast 2 of them won't come out easily, they said this to avoid paying extra labour charge to remove/cut the bolts + new bolts. As the garage couldn't fit me in for a few weeks I've decided to look in to this myself as I've done a bit car work before, changed rear silencers, brakes, simple jobs, etc. There seems to be two options that I think I can accomplish: 1. purchase a flexi pipe repair kit, which comes with a flexi pipe, and some c clamps, £20. 2. purchase a complete front silencer part, up to the manifold, £60. I was going to attempt 1. but I don't have a angle grinder, plus I'm not sure if this would pass the MOT and I think 2. might be easier. I'm willing to give 2. a go but unsure on the bolt situation, will I get stuck trying to remove the bolts? Would I still have to get hold of an angle grinder to cut the old silencer off beyond the flex pipe or will a fitting/clamp already be there? Is this part normally welded/is using clamps a bad idea? Apologies for the basic questions but just want to get an idea of what I'm looking at here but I decide on what to do as I'm time limited atm. Cheers, Will.

Just to add, specifically it was the waterpump bearings but the whole pump was replaced as it was past due anyway, interesting that could make such a noise! Thanks all for your help and input.

it was the waterpump, fixed now, picking it up shortly. £260 parts/labour.

Slightly over 80k.

Cheers I'll give this a go, I guess if the noise remains it's probably the timing chain and the cars toast.

It's done approx. 70 motorway miles like this, to me it looks like the pulley/tensioner slapping around, however the noise is worse than I'd expect from this, there's no power loss or anything though. Kinda sounds like there's no oil in the engine but I checked the oil level already. I've changed a few accessory belts before on a different car where I pulled back the tensioner with a ratchet and slipped the belt off, is it the same?

Hi there, last time I drove my Fabia 09 Mk2 I thought I heard some excess noise when coming off the clutch, roll on today and it's a lot worse. When idling the engine sounds very rough and clanky or gravelly/rattley. When I accelerate in neutral or accelerate and change gear it's a lot worse, almost sounds like an old tractor. I took a look under the hood and it looks like it's coming from the pulley system, I thought it might be clutch at first but seems more likely it's a belt or something. I've attached a video, please let me know what you think and how much it might cost to fix. enginenoise1.mp4