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As i am having loads of fun with my exhaust blowing all the time i was wondering.....

Do exhausts blow a little anyway? is it something you have to live with or are they supposed to be hole free and sealed.

Paid yet more money 2day to have it re-sealed again and less than 2 hrs after they had done it i see water dripping from the join.
had enough of the thing and i'm seriously considering flogging the car.

metz wrote:As i am having loads of fun with my exhaust blowing all the time i was wondering.....

Do exhausts blow a little anyway? is it something you have to live with or are they supposed to be hole free and sealed.

Paid yet more money 2day to have it re-sealed again and less than 2 hrs after they had done it i see water dripping from the join.
had enough of the thing and i'm seriously considering flogging the car.

Weld it

Seriously - sounds like it's a bad joint - maybe due to stiching in a new section on old pipes - they (the exhaust fitters) use air chisels to cut the old sections off and that digs a groove in the metal and it becomes a path for the leak

I swear by fire gum put a good even coat on the two sections and push em together - leave to harden before starting the car so the exhaust gasses don't blow it out as soon as it starts and I've never had a problem

all the exhaust is new so it wont be old sections, but whats fire gum i never heard of it and at the moment chanting round the car with a bra on my head is even worth a try.

metz wrote:all the exhaust is new so it wont be old sections, but whats fire gum i never heard of it and at the moment chanting round the car with a bra on my head is even worth a try.

Fire gum - you get it in a tube - shake or squeeze the tube about to stir the contents - its an exhaust sealing paste

bought my last tube from halfords bout £4 - just remember let it harden before starting the car - if you are in a hurry blow torch helps.... the other half has one she uses for creme brule's got the right hump when I nicked it and gave it back empty of gas

Bottom line it's never let me down in 20 years and its had some seriously bodged jobs to tackle

I'll visit halfrauds this week and buy some as its only a matter of time before the exhaust does its best to make me go physcotic.

sounds better than the gungum stuff.... me owns getting a bit farty so mebbe worthwhile checking for a leak same time as changing every conceivable oil reservoir

If it's really doing your head in, why not get a genuine VAG one with genuine clamps too.

you must think im a millionaire ;-P

Ive had the exact same problem. Every joint leaked all the way from the manifold. firegum did the trick but now the thing sounds ten times worse. Sounds like a barry boy baked bean tin now and echos round the car. oh yeah its only two months old as well. As i am writing this now the car is having a complete new system fittted to it and the old one is going straight back to where it came from. The old one is a bosal and the car definately wont have anything from them fitted again.

a little advise from a vw mechanic DONT DO NON GEN PARTS

If you are considering selling let me know - I'd like to have a look at the car.