Damn! There goes £340 just after Christmas.
 

Xantia just failed it's MoT, needs full exhaust including cats, £340 inc the MoT.:cry:

Could be worse I suppose, but straight after Christmas.........:(

Cars are expensive end of. My Pathfinder has just cost me a grand to service, insure and tax all at Christmas. Last time I ever buy a car at Christmas time and then have to renew everything every Christmas after :rolleyes:

Nah, HDi.

Wouldn't put a 2nd hand exhaust on, the cars are all too old, knowing MY luck I'd be paying AGAIN in 6 months' time:(

just got to bite the bullet.

AND we just subbed the youngest his tax for a year............AND the Xantia tax is up when I DO get it MoT'd :( :( :(

Why the need for a cat, unless its rusted through.

A leaky exhaust causes an MOT fail. But if the leak is fixed, the emissions may come back into tow.


edit DIESEL??!?!?

Doesn't need a cat; get a replacment pipe. :D Maybe even be a non-cat exhaust available new intended for older model years

Downpipe as well ? :eek:

http://secure.gsfcarparts.com/shop/results.asp




De cat it :thumb:

Have you taken this to Kwikfit or something?!

No, it's gone to a local guy I've known for years and trust.

He's shown me, there are TWO cats and they are BOTH part of the exhaust, you can't take them off separately.

BLOODY French cars!

312 for my mondeo estate , ( would be )


..without the fitting !

Does the price include labour for fitting Jeff? Or would you want a hand fitting it one day :)

Oh the old Xantias. I've had two. Was working away a few years back and wanted to keep mileage off the Scoob so paid £500 for one. So comfy with an Ipod line-in connection too.
Like water beds!
I wrote my first one off going into the back of someone. I simply scrapped it and bought another the following week :)

What engine and HP is it?

Edit: and year.
Edit: Hatchback or estate.

Looks like our fridge freezer is on its last legs....

Replacement we have eyeballed was £250 on new years eve.....

Day after new year £299 ferk!!!!


And that's without the vat going on too :(

We changed the Mrs's car the week before Christmas, so that moves her tax

away from christmas and out to the end of april, so she's happy with that

Looks like the bank account is going to get a hammering shortly :(

Mart

New kitchen arrives tomorrow, cooker arrives Saturday.

Was hoping to buy another classic :mad:

Hah! There's no way I'm exhaust fitting, I thought I'd done my last until I met you :D

2.0HDi, T reg 99 car, saloon/hatch

:D

http://www.cats-direct-shop.co.uk/ex....php?ID=180518

Give them a ring in the morning. Looking at it, it will be about £100 for most of the exhaust, then £56 for the cat up pipe, few quid for gaskets and bolts.

Worth a phone call anyway.

Actually Jeff, have you priced up an exhaust from Cookies or Frod Motor Spares :)

When my downpipe to centre cat join rusted through causing the centre section to drag on the floor, Cookies came up trumps for me with a whole new downpipe/gaskets/fitting kit for just shy of £53. 5 hours on my back admittedly but a garage would fit others parts so long as reputable surely :)

Holy CRAP! A while back I got a quote off Alfa for a new cat and it was just over £800!!! That site has the same yoke for £188. How can Alfa get away with that?

I might look at those tomorrow, BUT, the guy who does the work has rung around for cheap parts, plus I don't fancy the job in this weather and the price includes the MoT and retest.

Buy the parts, then get him to fit?

What bhp engine is it?

Looking at google it says the system on the 90bhp models is interchanagble with the non-cats system found on the older model years.

110bhp, you're screwed, apparently.

You're cheap ;)

Do you need ask? 110, of course. :rolleyes:

The dear one............:(

If there is the slightest exhaust leak on the car, it is likely to affect the emission measurement adversely. Might be worth having a close look for any leaks anywhere in the system. Fixing anything like that migh cure the emission problem.

Might well be worth checking the Lamda sensor as well,it that is u/s it will cause the same problem. Could save yourself some cash.

Les :)

It's having the full exhaust, inc back-box, Les, knowing my luck, I'd pay out for the front bits and the stupid back-box would falL off a week later. Cheaper to get it all done at once.
Strange though, ALL my other cars ate through the BACK-box before the front pipes :confused:

Cheer up

I'm due an MOT and a year's ticket on the first of March, nine years since I collected it !

dunx

could be worse just cost me 550 quid to put a engine and box into the daughters punto crap italian cars:(

Yes my Scooby did exactly as you say. The back box had a hole in it and the emissions were all messed up. As soon as the hole was repaired, the emissions wer instantly back in limits. Happened to my friend's scooby too.

Maybe the back box runs a little cooler and there is more condensation to cause the internal rusting.

Hope it all sorts out anyway.

Les :)