Hey, been a while since I last posted. Anyway, my exhaust from the muffler on back fell off on the interstate a few days ago, the weld on the front of the muffler broke and the rest fell off. I picked it all up, but there wasn't much left good to weld to on the muffer. The resonator was only marginally better, and I think there was a decent hole already where it broke.

Being a cheapskate, here's what I did. I put a can-style muffer off a BMW 325i (I think) that I found at the boneyard for something like six bucks where the resonator on the 240D used to be. I left out the center muffler entirely. I attached where the old exhaust pipe is back to the new muffler with some 2" flex pipe (galvanized steel). Now, I want to make sure this isn't some huge no-no that I dont know about, but I think its ok. And yes, I realize that the flex pipe may give me trouble come inpection time, but hey, its rural Missouri. They may not care, and that stuff was 14 bucks including a couple of clamps. So i paid roughly 20 bucks to fix my exhaust. Sounds pretty good, I think, and is no louder than the old muffler/resonator. Also sounds less like a VW Bug since there's no hole!!

Just want to make sure the seasoned veterans give this the thumbs up, that I am not baking my exhaust valves or anything. And, this may be a cheap alternative for people not wanting to buy the original muffler and resonator which were about 100 bucks a pop when I looked at a catalog ( ! )

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'79 240D 4 speed manual 105k miles