My experience with "bargain" mufflers is you get what you pay for. My
mistake(years ago) was to let a muffler shop do the installation. Worked
good for a while then the pipe up stream broke. I found they had reworked
the hangers, left some out, and the cat/muffler were no longer correctly
supported. OEM usually is the best route, and if you deviate it is twice
as hard, and expensive, to go back to it.

Ken "There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it
twice." Lewis
86 Crewcab,60 356
http://Neksiwel.20m.com/

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:50:36 -0600 andrewbell <andrewbell@QWEST.NET>
writes:
> There is a $30 generic muffler on my Van... fits great. A little
> shorter than
> normal, but a little cheaper!
>
> Want a pic?
>
> AB
>
> brian Honan wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Thanks to the list I have done allot of work on the Vanagon myself
> but now
> > that it is getting cold and I have no garage I decided to drop her
> off at
> > the mechanics. The Trany started to slip and it needed Pa
> inspection. The
> > mechanic noticed no slipping driving into the garage. I was
> looking for a
> > better answer than that actually. However to the point of my post
> it needs a
> > muffler so they say and the price without labor I presumed, was
> $250. This
> > was an itemized list so there was no labor on there yet. The bus
> depot has
> > them listed as $109 or something. Should I get my bus out of there
> and bare
> > the cold and figure this one out as well?
> >
> > have a good one,
> >
> > Brian
> >
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