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Originally posted by Pre98:
Take your fitment complaints elsewhere. Everyone's first impression is that an exhaust will slide together like bread and butter- but it doesn't.
I've installed/worked on Bassanis and Borla that slid together like bread and butter. 
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Originally posted by GTO Pete:
Originally posted by Pre98:
Take your fitment complaints elsewhere. Everyone's first impression is that an exhaust will slide together like bread and butter- but it doesn't.
I've installed/worked on Bassanis and Borla that slid together like bread and butter.
I have also put together a few exhausts that go together perfectly. Im mean, ZERO issues.
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I'm fairly tired of hearing about it is all I'm really saying. It's on the car, and fitment has been mentioned eleventy billion times already.
No need for an update about it every time someone buys a new Trubendz catback.
And a wonderful edit:
Originally posted by converted_gm:
Originally posted by Pre98:
Take your fitment complaints elsewhere. Everyone's first impression is that an exhaust will slide together like bread and butter- but it doesn't. The reason it doesn't is to ensure you don't have to crush the smooth mandrel bends with your overtightened clamps because one pipe is that much smaller than the other 
You won't have any leaks now, that's for sure.
SOME people want to help others make an informed decision, and NOT end up buying some poorly thought out exhaust....800 dollars for that BS grief while putting it together...sorry is to some of us thats BS...you waste your money how you wish though, seen as our complaints dont matter... 
Oh man, shut your [censored] face. If you had searched before you bought the [censored] thing, you would have realized some exhaust systems have fitment issues.
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Originally posted by Pre98:
I'm fairly tired of hearing about it is all I'm really saying. It's on the car, and fitment has been mentioned eleventy billion times already.
No need for an update about it every time someone buys a new Trubendz catback.
And a wonderful edit:
Originally posted by converted_gm:
Originally posted by Pre98:
Take your fitment complaints elsewhere. Everyone's first impression is that an exhaust will slide together like bread and butter- but it doesn't. The reason it doesn't is to ensure you don't have to crush the smooth mandrel bends with your overtightened clamps because one pipe is that much smaller than the other
You won't have any leaks now, that's for sure.
SOME people want to help others make an informed decision, and NOT end up buying some poorly thought out exhaust....800 dollars for that BS grief while putting it together...sorry is to some of us thats BS...you waste your money how you wish though, seen as our complaints dont matter...
Oh man, shut your [censored] face. If you had searched before you bought the [censored] thing, you would have realized some exhaust systems have fitment issues.
Not to mention that Ford changed enough underneath the Contour over the years that some people couldn't even get the kit on without taking it to a shop for adjustment. The size/positioning of the gas tank rings a bell. I'd place as much blame on Ford as on Trubendz, if not more.
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Wow. I'm having a such rough day so just bear with me, sorry.  The frequency of these threads just strikes a nerve with me. Never thought repeated threads would annoy me- I've become.. one of them 
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Originally posted by GTO Pete:
...Borla that slid together like bread and butter.
Mine did, and this is the second or third car it's been on. So, Contour changes aside, some companies make exhaust that just fits. NOT to bash Trubendz, as I really like their product, but there is such a thing as a perfect-fit Contour exhaust.
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My Borla would of melted my back bumper if I just mounted it as is.
The shop has to torch the pipes and pull inward towards the middle of the bumper. They were pressed hard against the side of the exhaust openings on the bumper.
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im just waiting for my truebendz to arrive at my door. we'll see how it goes.. UPS is supposed to be here tomorrow with it.
what the best way to put them on, the clamps that they come with, or just weld it on?
i know welding is better but will the clamps be alright if i put tacky sealent around the pipes before i clamp?
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You don't need sealant. Just clamp them.
I suggest you remove the old exhaust and slap up the trubendz pre assembled (w/out clamps) and get everything in its hangers. The adjust and use clamps as you get everything where you want it. THEN it wouldn't be a bad idea to go to an exhaust shop and have them weld it, or if you want to weld it yourself, drop the exhaust with clamps tightened, then weld, and remove clamps and put it back up. I am still running clamps on mine, with no leaks or issues of any kind.
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Originally posted by CSVT1214:
The shop has to torch the pipes and pull inward towards the middle of the bumper. They were pressed hard against the side of the exhaust openings on the bumper.
So are my sisters. Have been since she got it. Luckily, no melting. I always bugged her about getting it fixed, but no joy. For sale now anyway.
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