Anyway, having changed the rear right tire to the yellow spacer in the cold wind and rain (it's amazing what you can do when disaster strikes) with my bad heart and all, i limped the car the rest of the way to Omarama. Having arrived there at 7:30am (before the lindas pass was officially declared closed on the radio by the way) I had to wait till 8:00am for the local mechanic/tyre guy to arrive. 8:15am
the guy arrived and had a look at my car, patched it up enough to get me back to Waimate ($70 for a second hand tyre and some glue on the exhaust).
I later took the car to Magloo mufflers in Timaru. After a closer inspection, this is what they found:
1. The pipework at the 90 degree bend has been crushed and also crushed just before the flexi joint.
2. The flange connecting the exhaust pipe to the manifold has been badly bent and needs replacing (twisted from the impact further down the pipe).
3. There is a crack in the weld joint along the centre muffler thingy which needs fixing.
4. And the 2 1/4 piping system from the cat back (came with this from Japan) is rotted out ALONG THE TOP of the piping.
Magloo mufflers told me that by the time the patched it up I'd be looking at an almost complete custom (apparently they can't get parts for my car) exhaust system, to which they quoted me $1200.
Alternatively, they could fix the front section (manifold to cat) with flows for $450.
Here's my situation, I'm 20 years of age, only just started work after having been at Polytech for the last two years, have been diagnosed with a serious heart condition, and am saving hard out for the latter to cover travel costs and the like. In summary, I need an expensive job done for very little $$$.
I'm coming indo Dunedin on the 19th of May for another
Hospital appointment and thought I might have a look around.
err.... any suggestions?
