bodgerrfa

bodgerrfa

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Hi guys and girls. I have a p38 with a blowing down pipe but have been quoted silly money to replace. It incorporates a cat or part filter. Anyone any good contacts for one. Also, as it has a part stainless system and the previous idiot owner has welded the two together. Anyone know the bore of these pipes so I can order a clamp flexy to join the two, once I get a down pipe. Finally, the olive, does this require replacement every time?

I'm usually a v8 man but needs must :mad:

Help appreciated
 
If anyone has the time, I would appreciate someone getting a calliper on the downpipe section to get a measurement. Mine are broken and I'm currently on deployment. Would like to get the bits ordered. appreciate it, can get a flexy of 63 bore, struggling to find bigger. Cheers grit, just need to be sure
 
Mine is blowing at the flexi joint too, found it at it's MOT as an advisory.

Don't forget, as it was registered before March 2001 it does not need a Type Approved cat fitted. The ones I was looking at were around £260 (Type Approved) but I found non Type Approved for around £160 but called into a local Andrew Page depot (who supply a lot of garages and outlets) and they had it for around £115 including a £12 surcharge which you get back when you return the old cat to them.
 
flookyk said:
Mine is blowing at the flexi joint too, found it at it's MOT as an advisory.

Don't forget, as it was registered before March 2001 it does not need a Type Approved cat fitted. The ones I was looking at were around £260 (Type Approved) but I found non Type Approved for around £160 but called into a local Andrew Page depot (who supply a lot of garages and outlets) and they had it for around £115 including a £12 surcharge which you get back when you return the old cat to them.
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Was that trade or retail. Andrew page are notoriously expensive selling to Joe public. So trade would be a lot less than that if it was retail.:)
 
That was at retail prices, I have had exhaust parts from there before and never been asked if I was a trade customer or public.
 
flookyk said:
That was at retail prices, I have had exhaust parts from there before and never been asked if I was a trade customer or public.
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Believe me there are two prices, one for trade and one for everyone else. Unless they know you or you have an account you will be charged retail. If you are getting trade rates it will say so on the receipt. It will give a retail price a discount rate and the trade price before VAT.
 
Just picked it up on the way home from work tonight, the only price shown is the £86.40 + £10 surcharge +VAT coming to £115.68

BUT I may have a problem ....... mine has a flexi joint in it, this one does not and when I look up the part number of this one (BM80092) the sites it is on shows the OEM part number being ESR2521 (manual) with no alternative for the ESR3975 (auto) that my car is. Andrew Page ordered it from the Reg no of my car and I made sure I informed them it was an automatic as well.

Does anyone know what, if any, the differences are between the two versions of the diesel down pipe, does the manual original version not have a flexi joint in it and is the shape, etc slightly different between the two? It may have to go back to them tomorrow.
 
Oooh bugger ...... not sure if it is worth the risk fitting it with no flexi joint, they must think there is more movement of the engine on the auto to the manual.

Thanks GV

Bodgerrfa, is yours the manual or auto?
 
flookyk said:
Oooh bugger ...... not sure if it is worth the risk fitting it with no flexi joint, they must think there is more movement of the engine on the auto to the manual.

Bodgerrfa, is yours the manual or auto?
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Tbh in my younger days there where differnt makes of exhausts ie bosal and walker some had flex some didn't for the same car

Would of thought a auto is far smoother that someone changing up and down a Manuel gearbox the only thing I can think of is the box mounting is differant but it looked the same to me in the brief look I had
 
Spent most of last night trying to find out more about this and found the manufacturer of the downpipe/cat, a company called BM Catalysts in Mansfield.

Their site shows the BM80092 part as the replacement for both the ESR2521 (manual) and the ESR3975 (auto). I have emailed them to ask why the omission of the flexijoint.

It puzzles me why Land Rover would think the auto needs a flexi joint and the manual does not but it looks like I may just go ahead and fit it anyway.
 
flookyk said:
Spent most of last night trying to find out more about this and found the manufacturer of the downpipe/cat, a company called BM Catalysts in Mansfield.

Their site shows the BM80092 part as the replacement for both the ESR2521 (manual) and the ESR3975 (auto). I have emailed them to ask why the omission of the flexijoint.

It puzzles me why Land Rover would think the auto needs a flexi joint and the manual does not but it looks like I may just go ahead and fit it anyway.
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I think your going into deep .
Your have more chance of a flexi blowing unable to do a repair than you would a tube think of it that way
 
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