If you are going to go to all that trouble and expense for a muffler and
ceramic coating to make it last longer, you might as well get Frank
Condelli's stainless steel muffler and be done with it.  It comes with
the tail pipe welded in place.  No special hangers to buy to install it
either since it has it's own hangers attached.  No change in sound or
performance as far as I can tell.  Just good, solid, construction that
will last a long time.  17000 miles on mine so far.

Joe Federici wrote:

> It's not that hard of a job. Most of the work is in removing the old
> muffler. You might also consider getting the new muffler and tailpipe
> ceramic coated to help prevent rust in the future. Depending on where
> you get it done this can add about 100.00 to the cost of things. This
> can add as much as 6 times the life but near me on the east coast it's
> more like 2 or 3 times. Either way it's worth it in the long run to me.
>
>
> JFF
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Yoel and Tina Crane wrote:
>
> I've got a slightly rusty tailpipe and our muffler needs replacing
> (pardon my French!)  Is this a difficult job to undertake?
>
> Our local VW parts dealer has a stock muffler for about $150 and the
> replacement tailpipe for about $15.  I saw the previous thread about
> high performance exhaust and .. well, we just want the stock exhaust.
> This is no performance vehice :-)
> --
> Tina and Yoel Crane
> mailto:yoelandtina@gmail.com
>
>