I haven't had a tailpipe on my van for over two years.  No problems.

Karl Wolz

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Eric Zeno
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:04 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Tailpipe repair

Driving like this  long distance will melt the  plastic
bumper end.  It will also melt/burn off the under
coating  in the rear body section.
                                        Eric

Royston, Jerry wrote:

>I will be going on a 1200 mile trip next week and have not been able to
repair the little tailpipe that comes out of the muffler.  It basically
rusted off and now there's just a little nub of rusted metal sticking
out of the muffler.
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>Two questions:  1) Is it OK to drive like this?  Doesn't seem to affect
the noise level; and 2) Will I have to replace the muffler when putting
on a new tailpipe since the clamp seems to have rusted away.  And can
Midas repair this kind of problem or is it beyond their capabilities?
Thanks
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>Gerry Royston
>Bethesda, MD
>'87 Westy
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