Exhaust Joint At The Back End Of The Cats

[davepruce]

Anyone fixed this?

If so, whats required and where do I get it (please, not Lexus!).

Is it an easy/moderate/fiendishly difficult job??

At the moment I've just pugged them up to keep them quiet, but the time will come sooner rather than later when I will have to sort them.

Cheers

Dave

[Russ H]

Anyone fixed this?

If so, whats required and where do I get it (please, not Lexus!).

Is it an easy/moderate/fiendishly difficult job??

At the moment I've just pugged them up to keep them quiet, but the time will come sooner rather than later when I will have to sort them.

Cheers

Dave

Did you ix this ? I've got the same problem on my GS430...

[JellyBean]

When one of mine went, the gasket was £5 and I was charged an hour's labour at a Lexus specialist (but not Lexus themselves). Thus bill was c.£50, I think.

[Manc]

HI,

Yes this happened to me too... 1st time i was charged 15 quid - apperently he did the gaskets and had a right pain getting the bolts off.... i doubted he'd done all that for a mere 15quid... and 6 months later his bogging had fell out...

so i went to another garage and he just charged me £30 and said it was ok, not as much trouble as he thought....

I wouldnt bother doing this job myself as the cost is minimal but the effort can be something else if the 6 bolts are now part of the car.... the heat and exposure to the elements make these bolts corrode worse than others

[simontaylor]

It is because the gasket has failed and is crumbling away. All that heat, water etc and clooing/re-heating takes it's toll.

I just packed a bit of exhaust paste, gun gum, into the joint and then put a large jublee clip all around it to hold the paste it. It lasted over a year before the paste need replacing.