£474 to pass MOT...ouch!

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Originally Posted by thundercat

Yep that's what I did on my CDTI when the back box fell apart after 13 years.

Mike, when you say "that's what I did", exactly what did you do?

I fear that the stataments in some of the posts above are based on the assumption of a three-box set-up. These being the cat, the middle box and the rear box with intermediate pipes.

I thought the CDT only had a two-box arrangement - the cat and the rest. So, when a garage says the whole exhaust, unless they say including teh cat, they are most likely to mean the rear box and the pipe up to the cat. This comes as one piece.

So, to fit a "whole exhaust", one would need to make the cut after the cat and then fit the new "whole exhaust system".

Would anyone care to cnfirm whether I am right or wrong?

Otherwise I will need to take a look tomorrow to confirm.