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davcohen
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Registered: 1st Nov 03
Location: North London
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31st May 06 at 09:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Booked myself in to powerflow tomz, they quoted me £330 over the phone for a catless system from the mainifold back (2 1/4")

i asked them for a straight through but told them i didnt want it to loud so he told me its going to be fitted with a middle silencer.

is this about right or should i tell em i just want a rear silencer, thing is i dont want it amazing loud at idle but coming on cam i want a nice roar

(20xe btw)
Marc
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31st May 06 at 09:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well if you don't want it loud then a straight through is no good! Hes right to suggest a silencer.
Rileysport
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31st May 06 at 09:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
20XE will be loud enough with both silencers in
davcohen
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31st May 06 at 09:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just cant wait, as i currently have a std bore which i think leaks and also has a completely split open the rear silencer
Rus
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31st May 06 at 09:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
textbook
Dave A
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31st May 06 at 09:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
oh no,


phone them and cancel. powerflow are shite. stainless steel that rusts and doesnt meet british standards for stainless steel

search for posts on here about them. you will change your mind!
Marc
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31st May 06 at 09:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I thought they were ok provided you specified the correct grade of steel?
Dave A
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31st May 06 at 09:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
but all powerflows are franchises. they all use low grade stainless(ish) steel from south africa that is thin and low grade. Doesnt meet BS for stainless steel.
Dave A
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31st May 06 at 09:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
copy and pasted from an old post:

I think I'm qualified to slate Powerflow!

http://alcoholic.custard.org/exhaust/

That's after just nine months on the car, the lifetime guarantee means nothing (they will only do anything with the exhaust if the rust eats all the way through the metal), the garage refused to fix it, and I lost £450 as a result...

Don't go Powerflow......Blue Flame, however, I have heard very good reports about, and a mate swears by them as they did him a nice custom t304 jobby on his GTi-R.
Ojc
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31st May 06 at 10:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I have Powerflow, mine is as mint as the day I got it fitted.
Dan B
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31st May 06 at 11:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Dave A
copy and pasted from an old post:

I think I'm qualified to slate Powerflow!

http://alcoholic.custard.org/exhaust/

That's after just nine months on the car, the lifetime guarantee means nothing (they will only do anything with the exhaust if the rust eats all the way through the metal), the garage refused to fix it, and I lost £450 as a result...

Don't go Powerflow......Blue Flame, however, I have heard very good reports about, and a mate swears by them as they did him a nice custom t304 jobby on his GTi-R.

Thanks, Dave, saves me posting it myself!
p16vlv
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31st May 06 at 12:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
we use 304 grade at burnley and have done for the past 2 years.
p16vlv
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31st May 06 at 12:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
quote:
Originally posted by Dave A
copy and pasted from an old post:

I think I'm qualified to slate Powerflow!

http://alcoholic.custard.org/exhaust/

That's after just nine months on the car, the lifetime guarantee means nothing (they will only do anything with the exhaust if the rust eats all the way through the metal), the garage refused to fix it, and I lost £450 as a result...

Don't go Powerflow......Blue Flame, however, I have heard very good reports about, and a mate swears by them as they did him a nice custom t304 jobby on his GTi-R.

Thanks, Dave, saves me posting it myself!


thought youd have something to say.
ed
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31st May 06 at 12:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Powerflow don't know the meaning of quiet. I had a chat to a guy over the phone about one. I kept on saying I wanted it to sound standard and pretty much silent. The guy kept on telling me that it should roar when I floor it otherwise there was no point in fitting the 2.0 enigne. What an idiot.
Scotty C
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31st May 06 at 12:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Go to MIJ performance in walsall.
Jambo
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31st May 06 at 12:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Dont go to powerflow, mine was deafening and i asked for a quiet one

They were unhelpfull didnt fit it correctly as it kept snapping off its mountings and in the end the new owner (fat_rew) got an exhausts uk one and apparently the old system was rusty IN ONE YEAR!!!


Barge pole!
ed
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31st May 06 at 14:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I like the cut of Blue Flame's jib. I am going to go to them one day...
Dan B
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31st May 06 at 14:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by p16vlv
quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
quote:
Originally posted by Dave A
copy and pasted from an old post:

I think I'm qualified to slate Powerflow!

http://alcoholic.custard.org/exhaust/

That's after just nine months on the car, the lifetime guarantee means nothing (they will only do anything with the exhaust if the rust eats all the way through the metal), the garage refused to fix it, and I lost £450 as a result...

Don't go Powerflow......Blue Flame, however, I have heard very good reports about, and a mate swears by them as they did him a nice custom t304 jobby on his GTi-R.

Thanks, Dave, saves me posting it myself!


thought youd have something to say.

Did you expect anything less? Although I see you are actually using a suitable grade of steel, finally (bit late for mine, though), did you receive too many complaints from people you used 409 for?
p16vlv
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31st May 06 at 16:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
NO
mav
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31st May 06 at 16:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
there is good and bad stories about powerflow, same with any company / franchise
Gaz
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31st May 06 at 17:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i like mine from Powerflow P16VLV did mine, and had no problems with it... sounds nice with a rasp too, but i like em like that...
cunningham
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Registered: 25th May 05
Location: Lochore, Fife
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31st May 06 at 18:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
mines is fine to its been on for a year now and looks good and sounds amazin i would definetly get another one for another car all depends who fits it wether its a good job or not
Greg_M
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Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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31st May 06 at 18:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
here we go angain with powerflow are shoot people.
yes many of them are but they are a franchise, some are excelent
Ojc
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31st May 06 at 18:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The one I use in Redhill is superb, they done my Corsa exhaust and it lasted after a average of 50 miles a day in the 2 years I had it on there, all weathers. And they done my Nova one, the fit is superb and its still as shiny as the day I got it.
myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
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31st May 06 at 19:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
mines ok.
originally done by sts or rts tyres in surrey somewhere, had it changed to fit the xe by Aylesbury.

the Surrey part snapped at a weld pipe-box, but Aylesbury were happy to repair it gratis.
Not seen the state it's in at the moment, but the original system is three years old and there's no holes in it.

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