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[robson]

Having just had an eternal exhaust, 2  silencers and back box,fitted at my local garage I noticed that they used the old support rubbers.Looking at the rubbers they look good. Having read posts about how 1. retention clips can break when removed.    2. after market rubbers don't last, Should I leave well alone or get the new Eternal rubbers fitted. Is it correct that these rubbers are inspected in a MOT?

[Lazydocker]

If the old rubbers are still good, leave them on but keep the Eternal ones as spares

[steve6367]

The Eternal rubbers I used started to crack inside 12 months - if your GM are good keep them on there 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

I make sure I have a stock of scrapyard rubbers in, one of those things like light bulbs, odd screws, nuts n bolts jubilee clips that you pick up on a scrappy run.  Original GM for sure 

[frostbite]

I bought some klarius rubbers from ecp they are a lot stronger than gm ones 83p aswell

The clips however from vaux 6 for about 5 quid

[biggriffin]

Just fit the new rubbers, you've got them, or else you'll put'em away safe and forget we're you put them

In the oldern days think was Vauxhall, the rubbers were held on by a split pin and washer.

[Nick W]

Just fit the new rubbers, you've got them, or else you'll put'em away safe and forget we're you put them

In the oldern days think was Vauxhall, the rubbers were held on by a split pin and washer.

Exactly, there's no point in overthinking this sort of thing. Same with most of the used OE Vauxhall parts are heaven sent and we're lucky to have them. It also makes removing the old system easier, as a quick slice with a Stanley knife saves loads of jiggling and swearing.

[johnnydog]

I replaced the two centre sections and back box on my 3.2 in 2008 with Bosal sections. Thinking it was best to replace the rubbers at the same time, I priced up genuine VX, but due to their (relatively) high price, I fitted new Unipart which were a lot cheaper. Twelve months later at the MOT, an advisory was the exhaust rubbers were perished. They were cracked and were splitting. Fortunately, I had kept the perfectly good VX ones I had removed, so I refitted them binning the Unipart rubbers.
The original VX rubbers are still on the car today (and the Bosal exhaust) with no signs of them deforming or perishing.
Genuine VX for me, without question.

[robson]

Thanks for the replies .I think I will leave well alone as the rubbers look ok.I thought I would check price of new GM rubbers and clips .Rubbers £6.60 plus vat clips 94p plus vat.Thats more than half I paid for the exhaust system.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

On the one hand, that's a lot for a chunk of rubber, on the other hand they're clearly worth the money, certainly I have no evidence to the contrary that most of mine are the originals (a couple were missing, which I replaced from a scrap FL). Used on many a Vauxhall, so not even Omega-specific or tricky to get hold of. 

Fit the old ones, get some from a scrappy at some time, keep them 'in stock' and at such time one does go, you've got spares at the ready. 

[biggriffin]

Thanks for the replies .I think I will leave well alone as the rubbers look ok.I thought I would check price of new GM rubbers and clips .Rubbers £6.60 plus vat clips 94p plus vat.Thats more than half I paid for the exhaust system.

Would have been worth getting a bag of 5.

[robson]

5 what rubbers or clips?

[biggriffin]

5 what rubbers or clips?

Clips

[robson]

I did buy 6 clips for my stock

[Jukeboxnut]

Having recently fitted a new eternal exhaust to my car, I reused the original Vauxhall rubbers which were still good and flexible unlike the almost solid rubbers that were supplied with the exhaust system.  The original rubber compound is vastly superior to the stuff used on the replacement items.