{"id":2291,"date":"2015-05-04T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T09:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2022-05-14T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T19:05:30","slug":"broken-exhaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/broken-exhaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken exhaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home one night, when it sounded like my car had a flat tyre even though I knew it didn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p><i>Note: I drive with really loud music, so couldn&#8217;t hear anything<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I knew something was wrong, because the entire car was resonating. If you have ever drove on a flat tyre, you will know what I mean when I&#8217;m talking about resonating, basically the vibrations go throughout the shell and steering wheel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I turned down my stereo knew something was wrong but I couldn&#8217;t figure out what. Took me about 20 secs, then I realised I either had a snapped exhaust or broken exhaust. I parked up when I got home and looked in the morning to assess the damage<\/p>\n<p>Looked in the morning and it looked like the centre section had gone on the car. I don&#8217;t know the exhaust system entirely so made a post on a forum. Someone said it was a centre section \/ mid-box. Either way looked to be around \u00a350. I was expecting it to be the cat (\u00a3200+), spoke to the brother and agreed to take the car into garage to price it up<\/p>\n<p>Came back and the car was fixed. Turns out it was simply the exhaust clamps had snapped. So the garage repaired it for free. Talk about lucky. 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