Exhaust tips

[Muzza80]

On 2/4/2018 at 10:42, themanwithnoaim said:

Hmmmm I'll just make a warranty claim as it doesn't look like Skoda can make it last either

 

 

Just remove them and get them powdercoated for £20 or so and fix the problem for good?

[edwards]

Sad though it is, this is part of the reason I went for the 280 Superb Sportline - you get 2 real exhausts! All the others you get some daft trim thing.

[themanwithnoaim]

3 hours ago, edwards said:

Sad though it is, this is part of the reason I went for the 280 Superb Sportline - you get 2 real exhausts! All the others you get some daft trim thing.

Test drove the 280 4X4 L&K WITH DCC & I didn't like it, felt like a barge.

 

5 hours ago, Muzza80 said:

 

 

Just remove them and get them powdercoated for £20 or so and fix the problem for good?

I'm too tight to spend the twenty quid !!!

[edwards]

1 hour ago, themanwithnoaim said:

Test drove the 280 4X4 L&K WITH DCC & I didn't like it, felt like a barge.

 

Well that's me told then, eh?  

[themanwithnoaim]

3 minutes ago, edwards said:

 

Well that's me told then, eh?  

Sorry didn't mean to be rude, I'm just a blunt person, no offence intended & I hope you enjoy your car

[edwards]

12 minutes ago, themanwithnoaim said:

Sorry didn't mean to be rude, I'm just a blunt person, no offence intended & I hope you enjoy your car

 

 

No probs - its the danger with typing, doesn't convey humour/context to well

 

As it happens, I agree in some ways it is a bit of a barge although the Sportline is the least 'barge-y' of them all. With 2 kids, a lunatic Springer Spaniel and a serious cycling habit, as well as needing to tow a large climbing wall trailer and sometimes caravans, the Superb will hopefully be a better tool than the Octavia for me, and we have a smaller car (Yeti) so won't always have to cart the Superb around.

 

The exhaust thing does bother me more than it probably should though - maybe as an engineer I just dislike form without function - but I knew it would bother me! My current car (superb comes next month) has genuine twin exhausts that turn out under the car and have no tips visible at all, so I am going from famine to feast  

Edited 8 February, 2018 by edwards

[Swirly182]

 

5 hours ago, edwards said:

Sad though it is, this is part of the reason I went for the 280 Superb Sportline - you get 2 real exhausts! All the others you get some daft trim thing.

 

Octavia 230 and 245 have two real exhausts behind the trims, same as the Superb...? Or were you going for the diesel. 

[edwards]

1 minute ago, Swirly182 said:

 

 

Octavia 230 and 245 have two real exhausts behind the trims, same as the Superb...? Or were you going for the diesel. 

 

I realize my post is rather ambiguous but I was really talking about the 280 vs. other Sportline Superbs which have daft chrome trim things (on an otherwise black trim car too). Browsing by the 'unread post' tool I sometimes don't notice what part of the forum I am in, and I seem to have strayed into the Octavia bit  

 

To be honest if I were buying an Octavia it would have to be a petrol VRs and I would deffo go for one with real exhausts....they are really nice but just a bit too small a car for what I want it for - 2 very tall kids, dog, bikes, diving kit, trailer etc. 

[Petunet]

9 hours ago, JohnnyType2 said:

 

very nice! what was involved which brand? what was the cost and how does it sound?

looks like you fabbed a collector on the righthand side?

 

It's a Fox exhaust. Some welding required:

 

Apparently it sounds like two tractors...