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14 January 2012, 08:46 AM
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I have a longlife stainless back box for sale. 5" diameter tail pipe, nice burble. Search my posts and see the advert in the for sale section. £50 plus £20 p&p or u can collect it yourself.
Will
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14 January 2012, 09:43 AM
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Hi,
With Longlife they cut and weld their exhausts on. I am sure if you contacted long life in Cardiff they could advise you, might be able to sleeve it. When I had my new box fitted by long life in Swansea they said they could fit this to another car for about £40. So if it does you can buy the back box delivery and get it fitted for just over £100, the exhaust originally cost £199.
It's worth finding out.
Will
With Longlife they cut and weld their exhausts on. I am sure if you contacted long life in Cardiff they could advise you, might be able to sleeve it. When I had my new box fitted by long life in Swansea they said they could fit this to another car for about £40. So if it does you can buy the back box delivery and get it fitted for just over £100, the exhaust originally cost £199.
It's worth finding out.
Will
14 January 2012, 12:53 PM
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Just keep your eyes open for a second hand one on here, your not going to get the turbo noise as the sports headers are more equal, be carefully how loud you go as it will just become a noise in your ear. If it was me I'd be looking for a second hand magnex or similar retaining the oem look a little but letting just a little more volume out.
14 January 2012, 07:50 PM
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I would avoid longlife like the plague to be honest, they really don't give a toss about their products once they have sold them to you and they are well over priced, in my experience at least.
Prospeed on city road Cardiff is the way to go as said above, or as Si above said, you could find a used one on here.
Charlie at prospeed will probably fit the longlife box for you if you go for that option and at £50 its not a bad purchase either.
Ian
Prospeed on city road Cardiff is the way to go as said above, or as Si above said, you could find a used one on here.
Charlie at prospeed will probably fit the longlife box for you if you go for that option and at £50 its not a bad purchase either.
Ian
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15 January 2012, 03:59 AM
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I had a longlife exhaust fitted to my last impreza and quite a few people on here slagged them off saying I should have gone elsewhere ...
I also had another car a few years earlier fitted with a full longlife system and never had any problems with either .....
I also had another car a few years earlier fitted with a full longlife system and never had any problems with either .....
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15 January 2012, 07:53 AM
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Hi guys,
I have only dealt with the long life guys in Swansea this once and must say was well impressed with the service. Every long life centre is a franchise and I imagine standards may vary at the different branches.
When I was looking for a replacement back box on a budget before Christmas I couldn't find jack and would have happily paid this much for one.
Hopefully someone might want it.
Twill
I have only dealt with the long life guys in Swansea this once and must say was well impressed with the service. Every long life centre is a franchise and I imagine standards may vary at the different branches.
When I was looking for a replacement back box on a budget before Christmas I couldn't find jack and would have happily paid this much for one.
Hopefully someone might want it.
Twill
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15 January 2012, 08:59 AM
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In terms of longlife I am just going on personal experience to be honest. I have had 2 systems from the longlife in Cardiff, the first was great and I had no reason for complaint but it was a simple straight system, the second was more complicated with 4 exits and did not fit correctly and when I went back some big fella came out with 2 scafold bars stuck one up each exhaust and started jumping on them to straighten it out, not great!!
I did pop back there when I first had the scoob to ask about a system as I didn't know about anyone else at the time. They told me that they don't build the scoob exhaust to spec but it comes in pre-made then they just slap it on, at one hell of a premium too!
Things may be different now but I know prospeed will beat them on cost every day of the week and I am yet to hear anything bad about them. Also the aftersales is great, charlie even fixed a problem that wasn't directly to do with the exhaust and didn't charge me for it even though he was tinkering for almost an hour.
Ian
I did pop back there when I first had the scoob to ask about a system as I didn't know about anyone else at the time. They told me that they don't build the scoob exhaust to spec but it comes in pre-made then they just slap it on, at one hell of a premium too!
Things may be different now but I know prospeed will beat them on cost every day of the week and I am yet to hear anything bad about them. Also the aftersales is great, charlie even fixed a problem that wasn't directly to do with the exhaust and didn't charge me for it even though he was tinkering for almost an hour.
Ian
15 January 2012, 09:24 AM
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Sounds good Ian, but me personally is go for a system that had been designed/developed/tested for a specific application, that's why I got mine from revolution subaru.
15 January 2012, 11:34 AM
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i used prospeed done me a good deal on a straight through 3" system but they didnt give a crap either didnt put a hanger baack in the rubber mount because it wouldnt fit left sharp bits of cut metal on the exhsust pipe where they cut old hangers off shabby work if im honest
16 January 2012, 08:12 PM
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i used prospeed done me a good deal on a straight through 3" system but they didnt give a crap either didnt put a hanger baack in the rubber mount because it wouldnt fit left sharp bits of cut metal on the exhsust pipe where they cut old hangers off shabby work if im honest
16 January 2012, 10:59 PM
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I am not the only one who has had problems with Prospeed, I dare say if Charlie did all the work then all would be acceptable at best, but he appears to employ some right clowns and even Charlie messed up two of my visits.
17 January 2012, 08:18 PM
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I wouldn't touch Prospeed with a very long barge pole due to the problems I had when I took my S202 to them which ended up with 4 visits and the car still wasn't as I had asked.
I am not the only one who has had problems with Prospeed, I dare say if Charlie did all the work then all would be acceptable at best, but he appears to employ some right clowns and even Charlie messed up two of my visits.
I am not the only one who has had problems with Prospeed, I dare say if Charlie did all the work then all would be acceptable at best, but he appears to employ some right clowns and even Charlie messed up two of my visits.
Who knows mate, maybe I was just one of the lucky ones then
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