So I'm booked in for a Longlife quad exhaust for £499 - yay!
Get there this morning - oh no mate, price is £899. I go to leave, and "oh, if we said £499 in the email, we'll do it for that price, but plus VAT".
He preordered me the most hideous tips in the world and doesn't have any more in stock, despite the email saying that I could choose the tips when I arrived. I ask for plain slash cut or rolled in, which he says he can do.
Bah - ok then.
Jump in cab home - almost there and mobile rings - "can't do a quad on this car as there are pipes in the way" - WHY DID YOU SAY YOU COULD IN AN EMAIL THEN. Says he could run the other side across so just using one backbox, but says the fuel filter would need to be moved before he could fit it, and that it would end up being very loud and potentially drone.
After discussion I agree to just have a single sided cat back stainless, no drone, slightly louder than stock for £349 fitted - fine!
Get there after lunch to collect, and he's externally rolled the tips rather then internally, but it sounds pretty good on idle.
Cough up the readies, and drive home.
Sounds REALLY good on hard acceleration, loads of pops and rumbles too - nice!
But in traffic it is far too loud for an old git like me, and drowns out the stereo - its much louder than we agreed. Bumholes.
Hate it - and it has got to go.
Give H&S a call - they want £700 + vat for a non quad. Supersprint is £900, Eisenmann even more.
Really pissed off as the car is far too loud for me, and want to replace it ASAP but I don't have that sort of money spare with the other repairs the car needs - don't want to take it back to Longlife as I don't trust them to sort it - would rather get it removed and bung it on eBay.
Any suggestions chaps? Ideally for one that can be built while I wait or a mail order premade decent quality one that isn't too loud?
Get there this morning - oh no mate, price is £899. I go to leave, and "oh, if we said £499 in the email, we'll do it for that price, but plus VAT".
He preordered me the most hideous tips in the world and doesn't have any more in stock, despite the email saying that I could choose the tips when I arrived. I ask for plain slash cut or rolled in, which he says he can do.
Bah - ok then.
Jump in cab home - almost there and mobile rings - "can't do a quad on this car as there are pipes in the way" - WHY DID YOU SAY YOU COULD IN AN EMAIL THEN. Says he could run the other side across so just using one backbox, but says the fuel filter would need to be moved before he could fit it, and that it would end up being very loud and potentially drone.
After discussion I agree to just have a single sided cat back stainless, no drone, slightly louder than stock for £349 fitted - fine!
Get there after lunch to collect, and he's externally rolled the tips rather then internally, but it sounds pretty good on idle.
Cough up the readies, and drive home.
Sounds REALLY good on hard acceleration, loads of pops and rumbles too - nice!
But in traffic it is far too loud for an old git like me, and drowns out the stereo - its much louder than we agreed. Bumholes.
Hate it - and it has got to go.
Give H&S a call - they want £700 + vat for a non quad. Supersprint is £900, Eisenmann even more.
Really pissed off as the car is far too loud for me, and want to replace it ASAP but I don't have that sort of money spare with the other repairs the car needs - don't want to take it back to Longlife as I don't trust them to sort it - would rather get it removed and bung it on eBay.
Any suggestions chaps? Ideally for one that can be built while I wait or a mail order premade decent quality one that isn't too loud?
