I had the entire system fall off my Allegro at the end of a 1000 mile road trip. It was so rotten I folded the whole thing in half, then in half again, and put it in the boot. Then I drove to Kwik Fit doing a tractor impression....
I had a blowing exhaust on a Mk. I Clio, the issue was at the manifold end and supposedly with the gasket. I had a garage fix it once and the issue came back a few months later, so I asked them to check again. Somebody apparently attempted to fix it, wasn't honest that they hadn't fixed it, and the exhaust sheared its bolts and detached from the manifold a week later (at least one hanger was still in place further back). I suspect they found that they couldn't remove the bolts and essentially walked away slowly, but were very happy to take my money. I was a new driver and didn't really know any better, but they did, and suffice to say I took my business elsewhere. The exhaust hadn't fallen off entirely, so perhaps that doesn't count. :D
Catalytic converters make the exhaust gases less corrosive. 'Cats' have killed a large proportion of the old replacement exhaust business. With some of the exhausts we used to fit in the 1980's you were lucky if they lasted much longer than a 12-month garantee period.
@@terryjacob8169 Sure about that? My 1989 BMW didn't have a cat but I never had to do anything with the exhaust on that either. What I have noticed over the years is how that grey deposit on the tailpipe you used to see after a car did a long, high-speed run has long disappeared...
Lewis is top guy always there to help. No bad language. To report. Happy new year . Old bangers r awesome . I think 90s and early 00s r. when cars were at there best. I'v got 04 plate clio diesel van which I love wouldn't part with it.
If you're ever stuck for weird size/pitch nuts and bolts, check motorbike/scooter parts stockists. A lot of really random things are used on them. I found that out by accident when i needed a really, really specific size of bolt a few years back to go into a gearbox casing to a mount, no longer stocked by the manufacturer etc and had long discontinued using that pitch on anything, took days of searching a cross referencing things, and finally found a match, it was off a Lambretta 😂 Pulled that trick a few times since on several different cars, and it always seems to be a match can be found off completely random things like Vespas
Yeah the Japanese do like to use wierd thread sizes. We see it on garden machinery like Honda engines (mowers are actually french or Italian made), Kubota, Iseki and other Japanese made mowers.
It's a Japanese thing with M10x1,25 and M12x1,25. I remember Kubota engines had them. And the wheel screws on Alfasud if I remember correctly. Nice thread file, I have one exactly the same 😊
I’m thinking that an off-centre JDM style square plate would look great on Desmond - very Kei! Also improving airflow. Also I’m now looking for a thread file!
10x1.25 is standard Japanese m10, its used on nearly their motorcycles. I'm surprised Lewis does not know as there are loads of Japanese bikes I his works.
I like the look of that thread cleaning file Lewis had! I've noticed the Japanese are devils for using Metric (Fine) threads - the towing eye of Yogi The Former Yaris was something like an M22 Fine thread.
It wouldn't be hub nut if it was correctly fitted in the first place😊😊 another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍
Surprising you have a hard time finding metric nuts over there. Home Depot (mega home improvement store chain in the US) has 2 packs of m10-1.25 nuts for like $1.25. I figured it would be harder to find that kinda stuff over here than over there.
In the UK we have a much poorer selection of hardware and carparts shops. You can buy points for a 50's Ford off the shelf. We have to order oil filters for 3 year old cars.
Sometimes it's worth just buying a box of assorted nuts, even if you don't use the majority of them, it's always handy to have cos there's always that one day you find you need them... :P
Hi Ian, I have tried to get answers from the new shop! But I've got bucked off, by a standard email that said it was a 'automated reaction', but not answering any of my questions! So far a big thumbs down! You know my email address, it's 'on your books', after all we mailed before! Is that A.I. aswell? You too? I hope not, because it's very frustrating!
Always a pleasure to help out!
Thanks!
After your last very competant wheel bearing repair I am glad to see normal service has been resumed with Desmond's exhaust repair failure.
I get by with a little help from my friends 😊👍🇮🇪
I've had loads of high mileage and older cars but never had a car where the exhaust decided to fall off. 😂
You've not lived. 😉
Lol I did 1.3 Montego. My dad managed to fabricate a flange and rebolt it to the block. Honestly, the thing sounded like it wanted to explode!
Did on my Yaris - a hanger rotted off the rear chassis rail!
I had the entire system fall off my Allegro at the end of a 1000 mile road trip. It was so rotten I folded the whole thing in half, then in half again, and put it in the boot. Then I drove to Kwik Fit doing a tractor impression....
I had a blowing exhaust on a Mk. I Clio, the issue was at the manifold end and supposedly with the gasket. I had a garage fix it once and the issue came back a few months later, so I asked them to check again. Somebody apparently attempted to fix it, wasn't honest that they hadn't fixed it, and the exhaust sheared its bolts and detached from the manifold a week later (at least one hanger was still in place further back). I suspect they found that they couldn't remove the bolts and essentially walked away slowly, but were very happy to take my money. I was a new driver and didn't really know any better, but they did, and suffice to say I took my business elsewhere.
The exhaust hadn't fallen off entirely, so perhaps that doesn't count. :D
I remember in the 80s an exhaust would only last about 3 years. Since then they seem to last a lot longer
Catalytic converters make the exhaust gases less corrosive. 'Cats' have killed a large proportion of the old replacement exhaust business. With some of the exhausts we used to fit in the 1980's you were lucky if they lasted much longer than a 12-month garantee period.
@@terryjacob8169 Sure about that? My 1989 BMW didn't have a cat but I never had to do anything with the exhaust on that either. What I have noticed over the years is how that grey deposit on the tailpipe you used to see after a car did a long, high-speed run has long disappeared...
@@HowardLeVertthat's lead. Since cats don't like lead, no grey tailpipes anymore.
And a happy new year from the Netherlands!
Put a straight pipe on it, I’d like to hear that three cylinder in all its glory 😊
Seconded
Thank you for sharing Ian
Just had a long day driving a London bus, just catching up on your videos
Lewis is top guy always there to help. No bad language. To report. Happy new year . Old bangers r awesome . I think 90s and early 00s r. when cars were at there best. I'v got 04 plate clio diesel van which I love wouldn't part with it.
Kenari is looking very clean for a country car in winter.
Desmond had just had a wash for the previous video.
If you're ever stuck for weird size/pitch nuts and bolts, check motorbike/scooter parts stockists. A lot of really random things are used on them. I found that out by accident when i needed a really, really specific size of bolt a few years back to go into a gearbox casing to a mount, no longer stocked by the manufacturer etc and had long discontinued using that pitch on anything, took days of searching a cross referencing things, and finally found a match, it was off a Lambretta 😂 Pulled that trick a few times since on several different cars, and it always seems to be a match can be found off completely random things like Vespas
Yeah the Japanese do like to use wierd thread sizes. We see it on garden machinery like Honda engines (mowers are actually french or Italian made), Kubota, Iseki and other Japanese made mowers.
It's a Japanese thing with M10x1,25 and M12x1,25. I remember Kubota engines had them. And the wheel screws on Alfasud if I remember correctly. Nice thread file, I have one exactly the same 😊
yeah you can get m10 in 1.0 1.25 and 1.5 threads. I think you are correct about the Alfasud.
I’m thinking that an off-centre JDM style square plate would look great on Desmond - very Kei! Also improving airflow.
Also I’m now looking for a thread file!
Sunday Cheers from your biggest Fan Here in Linz, Austria! 😃
With such a special rare car you also get rare repairs. But with the help of friends, isn't that a Beatle song?
Jesus, Ian, what are you doing to these cars to break so frequently
Very much being myself...
I just have one important question - how on earth do they keep that carpet so clean?!
10x1.25 is standard Japanese m10, its used on nearly their motorcycles. I'm surprised Lewis does not know as there are loads of Japanese bikes I his works.
I like the look of that thread cleaning file Lewis had! I've noticed the Japanese are devils for using Metric (Fine) threads - the towing eye of Yogi The Former Yaris was something like an M22 Fine thread.
Is that a Volvo 343 I see under the cover at 03:20? My father had one of those many years ago
A later 340. Good spot.
Seems to have fixed Desmond's exhaust leaks
An interesting looking Volvo 340 back there aswell
It wouldn't be hub nut if it was correctly fitted in the first place😊😊
another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍
Glad Lewis sorted you out but surely you could just use an M10 x 1.5 with 2 nuts to lock it at the right compression?
I didn't show it very well but there are no nuts - the bolts go into threaded holes.
@@HubNut Ahh that makes sense now 🙂
i think i would be inclined to offset the number plate all the way to the edge of the bumper "grille"
Surprising you have a hard time finding metric nuts over there. Home Depot (mega home improvement store chain in the US) has 2 packs of m10-1.25 nuts for like $1.25. I figured it would be harder to find that kinda stuff over here than over there.
Metric (coarse) is very common in the UK, metric (fine) less so. Not much uses them.
Also in rural Wales, there just aren't many places to buy that sort of thing full stop. Especially when the exhaust is already falling off.
In the UK we have a much poorer selection of hardware and carparts shops. You can buy points for a 50's Ford off the shelf. We have to order oil filters for 3 year old cars.
Good to see Desmond getting some Whiteland's Love, Lewis is now away to change his telephone number 😂😂
He's on the third one now! 😂😂
@WhitelandRestorations 😂😂
Do you think they have updated their phone so it says "Chaos Incoming" when ever you call? 🤣❤
I had a Saab 900 Exhaust fell off in the 3rd lane of the M6
Did the Kenari come with Nissan Micra K11 wheels?
Just the trims. We fitted them in The Netherlands.
@@HubNut They look good
Need a link to that file Lewis has
They're generally available. I have one myself. Think I just got it on eBay.
Who me, sir? You, sir! 😁👍
I can see a little Vactan for the Kenari in the future.
It has already been treated. ruclips.net/video/iWdn4xPCWko/видео.htmlsi=_r2C5dvECtW-k9FE
Ooh Ian it’s a bluetooth fitting. 😂 they aren’t the best.
Good video 🥰
I've had exhausts Break apaart several times. Last time it wrecked the cat, expensive.
Not ideal...
That was no kind of initial bodgery by you at all Ian - you should have seen what I would have done when faced with bolts that dont fit lol.
That is a very cute car.
Now if Miss Hubnut was with you, you could have said "flange" instead of "doughnut" when describing the errant exhaust fitting...... ;-)
To be fair to you its easier when you've got a ramp or lift
Felt like proper luxury!
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Another great video Mr HubNut fantastic well done
But....Fletch! I haven't got a Canary! ;/ (Porridge Quote)
Another successful tinkering with professional help.
I HATE IT when my Doughnuts don't crush.....😦👀🍩🤬......
AY UP MR HUBNUT
All very 🤓
Sometimes it's worth just buying a box of assorted nuts, even if you don't use the majority of them, it's always handy to have cos there's always that one day you find you need them... :P
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Hi Ian, I have tried to get answers from the new shop! But I've got bucked off, by a standard email that said it was a 'automated reaction', but not answering any of my questions! So far a big thumbs down! You know my email address, it's 'on your books', after all we mailed before! Is that A.I. aswell? You too? I hope not, because it's very frustrating!
Ok. We will have to look into that. What do you need to know?
Forget the BMW! Is that a Volvo 340? 😉
Yup. I think it belongs to a friend.
@@HubNut Intriguing! My Brother once clonked one of those with the corner of his Allegro. Cue big dent in Volvlo. Little dimple in Allegro.
360 GLT with less than 2800 miles from new!
you chunked that much money on the zorst then fitted yourself - just like why??!?!?!?!
Because it was already £400?
Do the job once😂 do it right? 🥳👍