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Originally Posted by formula kid
Ok so this is a 73 Survivor with 11,850 miles what is wrong with this picture? If the mileage is correct then why would you need replacement tail pipes on such a low mileage car? I have a few cars that have 7 times that mileage and only then needed new pipes. I guess that the price came about by dropping the first one (1) in the mileage and then adding three (3) zero's. 11,850 miles becomes $185,000.00 works for me!
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My 73 SD has 19,000 miles and a small hole in one of the original tail pipes from water sitting in a low point in the tube. I'm not about to touch the original exhaust though. Remember, the original pipes are 41 year-old, mild steel tubing, not modern stainless or aluminized steel.
This is the problem with not driving low mile cars. Just starting it up and running it few minutes every now and then is far worse than actually taking it out for good thrashing. If you don't heat up the entire exhaust system to operating temperature you are only causing rust to appear in the spots where the acidic condensation forms and then sits.
That T/A is a very well known car and the mileage is real.