Unrelated (hopefully!) to my faulty light problem, in the past few days I think the tone of my exhaust has changed and it sounds deeper.

Whilst I was fiddling around with the lights, I gave the exhaust a push and noticed that it was swinging from side to side.

Is it supposed to do this?!

If not, what might the problem be?

Anyone...?

No. If you can not see what is broken then you need to visit someone that can. Maybe even a tyre and exhaust centre.

Its either broken at join at front or centre clamp has failed. Its too loose to be just a rubber hanger. Think originally they were one piece from front to rear but aftermarket ones are in two sections. Sons did the same but didnt sound over loud as pipe was still in join but clamp had rotted away.

Reckon an exhaust company is required if you cant fix it yourself

Alasdair

Looks like that car has already had its rear box replaced - as you can see the join in the pipe further up.

It looks so easy to move that rear box that I'd think that the pipe "going into it" or the rear of that rear box has rotted out.

As above - time to visit an exhaust place.

Ok, thanks for the replies.

I did notice the exhaust sound seemed to have changed, so I thought that something might have come adrift.

I'll try to get a better view of what's happening and see whether it's just a matter of replacing a clamp or putting on some exhaust bandage or whether the whole thing needs replacing.

I found that Kwik Fit do a free, no obligation, inspection service and went in there this morning.

It seems that the back box/ silencer has rusted through where it connects to the exhaust pipe and completely parted company.

I asked how much it would be to fix and the young lad I spoke to phoned the suppliers and then said £94 which was a lot less than I'd thought it would be.

On the way home, I got a call from them saying "Err, sorry, he made a mistake, the quote was just the cost of the part to us! It should actually be £197 including vat and labour," (which, to be honest, was more like what I'd been expecting).

So I've got it booked in for them to replace it tomorrow.

PS I told them they should take the extra cost off the lad's wages... ;-)

Aye, you'd need to be very creative with an exhaust bandage to sort that out!

It is probably where my wife's 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI exhaust will fail as well, that needs looking at BEFORE it gets handed in for an MOT next month.

Edit:- my first expensive rear box was for my 1991 Vauxhall Cav GSI 4X4, it cost well over £100 back in maybe 1998 - I didn't mind that as it was a genuine part and it was for MY car, though I was still used to the "normal at that time" round about £75 for a complete exhaust!

Edited Thursday at 07:155 days by rum4mo

Well, it's sorted now and sounds a lot better!

Thing is, I was used to the noise from the old one and realised the slight rattling sound on starting that I'd put down to something in the engine, was, I now realise, from the exhaust.

Oh well... 🙃

Sons was pretty loud although we also just assumed it was normal. Only when I fixed the exhaust we noticed a bad wheel bearing. Sound was covering it perfectly.

Alasdair