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Whats the average price for a new standard exhaust?

wow, u were feeling like you wanted to chuck the car away, i can imagine you now! sorry mate i feel for you, anyways im getting a cherry bomb exhaust for £40 i rekon that a stock one would cost around the same, why not get a cherry bomb from ebay? theres also a guy that sells normal systems, but not original from a aftermarket company for like £20....that could help you

I would recommend phoning a VW garage or specialist, there will almost certainly be one in your region, phone them, and tell them u need a replacement for a MK2 Exhaust..

I suspect that an MK2 exhaust will be quite easy to find..

Your best bet is to phone up your local breakers yards and ask if they have any MK2's, pay them a visit, give them £5-£10 and walk in and rip what u want from the car..

I would try and stay away from ebay, and non-original parts if you can..

Would a place like kwik-fit do a replacement?

i believe kwikfit are purely tyres, and from what i know they are quite expensive..

I would highly recommend a "Wilkos", if they don't have it they'll get you a quote and find exactly what you're after (price including fitting)..

The mid section is £25 from GSF. Not too hard to fit yourself, but leave yourself some time as the joints can be pretty solidly fixed together.
On the plus side, that could well explain why the car was bogging down when you pull away

i still say go for the cherry bomb

Bit hard to say an exact price - I'm looking at the centre silencer there right?

List is about £24 for the part, depending on exactly which system it has fitted, but you might as well nip down to your local fast fit type place (Please, not Kwik Sh*t, they'll charge you a fortune, screw the job up and tell you you need a load of other stuff that you don't need). That way you'll probably spend about £10 more and they'll do it in 10 minutes flat on the ramps, which is always preferable to an hour of alligator wrestling on the driveway.

Pattern exhausts are just fine. Don't bother with second hand, it'll be ready rusted and you'll have to wrestle the bugger off too.

Wildchild - Have you ever had an exhaust fitted or done one?

Yeh, had a hole in the exhaust and several others developing.

Managed to do it myself, but it took almost a whole saturday and it was alot of effort..

But i don't regret it, as i've now done everything needed to be done to my car by myself so far.. and they've all checked through MOT with no problems

(i prefer to get my hands dirty)

Fixed

37 quid from Kwik-Fit, Not too bad in my opinion

Not bad at all then.

glad you got it fixed mate! bet that sounded interesting!

as far as i'm aware, mk2 exhaust are still readily available from the dealers, i got a new rear box for my mk2 squareback a few years back!

i think i spotted you again, can't remember what day, but it was near the shell garage in ramsgate early morning!

glad u got it fixed mate

Wow a positive note for both Kwikfit and yourself!

(more impressed by Kwikfit!)

SpikeyG40 wrote: i think i spotted you again, can't remember what day, but it was near the shell garage in ramsgate early morning!

Haha, yea I'm pretty sure i saw you too, stuck in a little bit of traffic