Annoying Exhaust Rattle

[Tom.B]

I have a bit of a problem with my stainless steel exhaust. When accelerating it makes a nasty rattling noise which seems to be coming from the exhaust knocking against the heat shield. A mate of mine said he had the same problem with his *cough* renault 5 . He said he just chopped the heat sheild off with tin snips.

Im not really sure about doing this any ideas guys?

[chocka]

depends on where the heat shield is! Don't remove it if its by the fuel tank.

have u tried bending it out of the way? has the exhaust been fitted correctly?

[vaz]

have u lost any poweer as well?

[daktari]

I had exactly the same problem with the scorpion system on mine. Simple alignment problem took half hour to sort out. BTW check the mounting rubbers. If they`re too spongy they can allow the pipe to move about too much. Not a lot of free space under there. :D

[Tom.B]

Cheers I am getting it checked and sorted as well as a nasty crack on the drivers side rear quarter which was there when I bought it (only had it a month and Im in love with it :) ) big problem is its not going to be fixed before JAE which is a bit of a bugger <_< .