My 172 Sport has just turned three years old and has just had its exhaust replaced with a standard original spec one, which I got through a local exhaust fitter (I didn't want an after-market stainless steel exhaust that might have been too loud for me). This was a little cheaper than the price quoted by the Renault dealer.
Having now had it fitted, the replacement exhaust sounds slightly noisier than the exhaust that came off the car (before it started blowing) and so I wondered should I have paid a little more and got the proper dealer Renault exhaust.
In passing, the place fitted the replacement exhaust mentioned that they got the exhaust from some central manufacturer who apparantly supplies Renault dealers with exhausts when factory-fitted ones need replacing - the back box does looks different from the factory-fitted one.
I wasn't sure what to do, and at the same time didn't want to pay more for an exhaust from the Renault dealer only to have found it would have come from the same central supplier.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether I should have gone for the Renault dealer's exhaust - would that one have been identical to the original factory-fitted one?
Having now had it fitted, the replacement exhaust sounds slightly noisier than the exhaust that came off the car (before it started blowing) and so I wondered should I have paid a little more and got the proper dealer Renault exhaust.
In passing, the place fitted the replacement exhaust mentioned that they got the exhaust from some central manufacturer who apparantly supplies Renault dealers with exhausts when factory-fitted ones need replacing - the back box does looks different from the factory-fitted one.
I wasn't sure what to do, and at the same time didn't want to pay more for an exhaust from the Renault dealer only to have found it would have come from the same central supplier.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether I should have gone for the Renault dealer's exhaust - would that one have been identical to the original factory-fitted one?