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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: deviator on 19 March 2016, 18:22:55
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....straight out the back of my exhaust! It looks like Rapunzel is trying to escape my back box.
I presume this is just the back box breaking down? IE I need another one.
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Yep
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Tie it to a Lamp post then drive away. :-X ;D
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Tie it to a Lamp post then drive away. :-X ;D
:D :D ;D ;D ;D
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Tie it to a Lamp post then drive away. :-X ;D
Exhaust, not his wife...
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Or just go out and gun it til it blows out ;)
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Or just go out and gun it til it blows out ;)
or splits the backbox and melts a hole in the fuel tank (I kid you not - it has happened to one of the OOF contributors).
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Or just go out and gun it til it blows out ;)
or splits the backbox and melts a hole in the fuel tank (I kid you not - it has happened to one of the OOF contributors).
Eek! When I had this issue it was on a GSi Carlton - those had steel tanks :D
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I've noticed it over the last few days. I must have pulled over 50ft out. I've done about 100-200 miles in that time and it hasn't fully coughed its lungs up ;)
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What do people recommend? Second hand original? Or decent aftermarket? I wouldn't be upset to upgrade a little, even if that means a catback system.
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JamesV6 had a problem with the exhaust melting a hole in his fuel tank - have a read through this thread A very poorly Elite (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=77481.0)
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what car is it. i have a 2.2 saloon back box going for free, if you collect
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what car is it. i have a 2.2 saloon back box going for free, if you collect
V6 Facelift Estate, so I have no idea!
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Or just go out and gun it til it blows out ;)
I did that up Garaby hill over taking a 4x4 towing a caravan, really struggling in third, foot flat to the floor and then the wad came out with a huge bang and the car took off like a scalded cat.
Good job I was over taking as the wad landed in the offside verge, if I had have been in my lane the following car would have had it through the windscreen :-X
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what car is it. i have a 2.2 saloon back box going for free, if you collect
V6 Facelift Estate, so I have no idea!
A complete new, cat-back system is about £90 delivered. It simply isn't worth fitting anything else.
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what car is it. i have a 2.2 saloon back box going for free, if you collect
V6 Facelift Estate, so I have no idea!
No use to you then, never mind
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what car is it. i have a 2.2 saloon back box going for free, if you collect
V6 Facelift Estate, so I have no idea!
A complete new, cat-back system is about £90 delivered. It simply isn't worth fitting anything else.
Thanks, I think this is the best option, any preferred supplier/make?
what car is it. i have a 2.2 saloon back box going for free, if you collect
V6 Facelift Estate, so I have no idea!
No use to you then, never mind
I appreciate the offer all the same, thanks.
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Make sure you wear gloves if you have to keep pulling it out as that stuff itches like hell on bare hands and arms. I made a hook from thin rod and a file handle to do it while i was waiting for my replacement box to arrive. :y
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ETS
For example : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-B-3-0-1994-2001-Silencer-Exhaust-System-/150810088414?hash=item231cfb53de:m:mJ2pd_nHhAMBA2S3vigix8A (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-B-3-0-1994-2001-Silencer-Exhaust-System-/150810088414?hash=item231cfb53de:m:mJ2pd_nHhAMBA2S3vigix8A)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDEwWDQxMA==/$(KGrHqV,!pEE9lZf4mL-BPpYTUHucw~~60_12.GIF)
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That is the system I have put on two of mine, Dave...
Took four days to get from Poland :y
You are lucky you had hair coming out....You may remember me posting a pic on here of my backbox, which must have blocked, then exploded at speed on a dual carriageway. The car physically jumped into the air. Frightened me and wifey to bits :)