"Oily" <martinhill100@nospambtconnect.com> wrote in message
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> "Badger" <brianhatton@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> > "Mother" <nospam@nominet.name> wrote in message
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> > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:30:36 +0100, "Lee_D"
> > > <newsgroupNOSPAM@NOSPAMlrproject.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Who's replaced and with what?
> > >
> > > I got the Rimmer large bore SS sports jobbbies. Sounds the business
> > > and has a lifetime warranty - not that I guess that is worth owt in
> > > reality.
> >
> > I fitted a rimmer "lifetime warranty" system to my 110 V8 some years ago
> and
> > had 2 centre boxes replaced under their warranty due to internal baffle
> > failures. The cynic in me thinks the internals are made of considerably
> > lesser quality materials than the outer skins...... A friend has had 3
> > replaced now, for the same thing.
> > One point worthy of note, the flanges (that aren't removeable from the
> > flared ends of the pipes) are made of mild steel and not covered by the
> > warranty, so eventually it all comes apart due to them corroding away
and
> > isn't covered! To be honest though, it still works out cheaper than
> > replacing a mild steel aftermarket exhaust every 2 years, or a genuine
> parts
> > one every 4 or 5.
> > My disco II (2000, 4.0V8) will be due an exhaust soon, the original is
> > starting to look decidedly dog-eared, but then it's been there for 6
> years!
> > I'm just praying that "Double S" get their corporate finger out and
start
> > making a suitable stainless replacement soon!
> > Badger.
> >
> A friend of mine also had about five centre boxes replaced (baffles
> coming loose) on a Rimmer Bros system fitted to a V8 90 then got fed up
and
> had me fitting a standard genuine parts full system. The Rimmer pipes
> weren't that good either (cheap grade stainless) but didn't give any
> trouble.
> Until I read your last paragraph I was going to suggest Double S for a
> replacement.
Yeah, the double-s stuff seems to be of a higher quality. I'm not replacing
the 110's system with one of theirs however - I'm going to buy the separate
boxes, bends etc from powerflo and tig up my own system as I want twin pipes
front to rear with a balance pipe and a nice soft muted burble that turns
into a rasp as I floor it! (well, what's the point of having a 4.7 if it
can't announce its presence now and again, teehee.) It's the Disco series 2
that I really want double-s to start making a system for, before mine
disintegrates!
Badger.