exhaust adjustment

[prettyboyben]

sorry if this has been asked many times before, but how easy is it to adjust the height of the exhausts cos my right hand side pipe is hanging annoyingly lower than the left. no testicle jokes please. its doin my nut in tho cos its lop sided from the back.

[Ireland]

What exhaust have you got on your car?

Standard or sports?

[prettyboyben]

just standard i believe. i havent actually checked. haha! only had the car about six months and never looked. does it make a difference?

[Allandwf]

There are adjustment nuts at each hanger at the back, but only allow for slight movement, you can also put a large cable tie round the rubber mount and pull it in , until the tailpipe is at the right hight.
When mine was like this it was, however, that the exhaust had slipped out of the rubber mount at the back.

[Ireland]

prettyboyben said:

just standard i believe. i havent actually checked. ..... does it make a difference?

Yeah, the standard ones are a bit more difficult to get level.

It may be just a case of one of the rubber mounts needs to be replaced.

You'll really need to get a look under the car and see what exact set-up is on yours.

Either way it's not particularly difficult, just fiddly.


Time to find a mate with a lift / pit, methinks.

[Tanguero]

Big jubilee clip round the outside of the rubber so you can adjust it fairly precisely with a spanner....

[prettyboyben]

wicked, cheers guys. my dads mates got a pit so im gonna have to try n get it up there at some point. have a go at a bit of rust removal work whilst im there i think. haha.

[cerbieboy]

Tanguero said:

Big jubilee clip round the outside of the rubber so you can adjust it fairly precisely with a spanner....

that's what i am doing today

[brakedust]

If you slacken off the 4 bolts holding your rear section to the cats (2 per side) you can rotate the exhaust, which in turn adjusts the height at the rear.....