Someone help me

Shibby · 09-11-2006, 04:10 PM

Hi Guy's i'll cut to the chase here for the first message.
My missis has got a Clarus (which i have to say is a mighty fine ride) but the Exhaust has given up.... a couple of garage's have quoted £500 (pounds) for a replacement!!!!!! can anyone point me in the right direction to find the parts i can use? all the place's i have tried dont do the Clarus model. unfortunatly im not in the position to get under it to look @ the shape.
Cheers in advance for any responce.......

aw21kia · 10-12-2006, 04:46 PM

i was quoted the same price from the dealer went to an independant garage who told me they fitted the mazda 626 exhaust for about £250 but while phoning around got a quote of £300 for a stainless steel exhaust fitted so went for that

1fastkia · 10-13-2006, 09:15 AM

Why not just go to an exhaust shop and have them make you one. It is a lot cheaper.

sabahlink · 10-13-2006, 11:51 PM

In the old days...early 80's we just asked the mechanic working in the railway line to do it for us...they had not much thing to do then and materials were available...but now just go to the exhaust shop..which is cheap...I brought back my Merc 190E G Reg to this country in 1995 and I did a welding to cover a small hole in 1997 till now no more problem with the exhaust system and still driving that old Merc from Southampton during week end.

abrewer · 11-18-2006, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Shibby

Hi Guy's i'll cut to the chase here for the first message.
My missis has got a Clarus (which i have to say is a mighty fine ride) but the Exhaust has given up.... a couple of garage's have quoted £500 (pounds) for a replacement!!!!!! can anyone point me in the right direction to find the parts i can use? all the place's i have tried dont do the Clarus model. unfortunatly im not in the position to get under it to look @ the shape.
Cheers in advance for any responce.......

Did you manage to get a cheaper replacement for your wife's exhaust and if so could you please let me know where you got it from?

Shibby · 11-21-2006, 08:29 AM

topgear.co.uk can make one up for £300+ depending on length ect. havn't had the opertunity to get a proper quote yet as the miss's drove it Wales to see her family and now it is stuck there (the back box fell off!!!) . she was to scared to drive it back!!

abrewer · 11-21-2006, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Shibby

topgear.co.uk can make one up for £300+ depending on length ect. havn't had the opertunity to get a proper quote yet as the miss's drove it Wales to see her family and now it is stuck there (the back box fell off!!!) . she was to scared to drive it back!!

Hi Shibby. I've sent you an e-mail but I'll also reply on here for the benefit of others. The guy in Aberdeen further up this thread mentioned the Mazda 626. After doing a Google search for "Kia Clarus" and "Mazda 626" it appears that the Clarus is based on the 626.

I phoned my local garage with this information and the mechanic said it looks identical and will order the part for a repair this weekend. Instead of having to pay the Kia dealer £250 for a middle section, my local garage has quoted me "£52.67 plus a couple of gaskets."

I'll post again at the weekend to let you know how it goes.

abrewer · 11-25-2006, 05:41 AM

The Mazda 626 middle section doesn't fit my Clarus

The guy at the garage says it's way too short so it looks like I'm going to have to go for a main dealer part.

Has anyone else got any other ideas? Also has the guy in Aberdeen who posted on this thread got any more information on the exhaust he fitted, even if its just the name of the garage who fitted it for him?

Spankmonkey · 12-19-2006, 03:20 AM

Hi - just wondering - did you get your exhaust issue sorted in the end? I have the same problem with my Clarus - GLX, 2000. Somebody fitted what looks like a honda exhaust in the past and its now giving trouble.

Spankmonkey · 01-13-2007, 02:07 AM

Hi,

I had the same problem with my Kia Clarus 2.0 GLX. It was basically the centre pipe and backbox that were rotten. Part numbers 283377 and 278077 from the Advance Pitstop store catalogue (believe they're from a Mazda 626) can be made to fit. Total cost EURO 380 (approx 240 of your earth pounds).

My Kia is back purring like a Korean dictator should. :-)

Cheers