Got an 2006 accord with 165k miles, which have the dreaded exhaust manifold leak & Smells bad.
As I understand it's quite expensive to replace it due to the work that is required to swap it/get to it.
Anyone have done this and know the approx costs to get it done? The part itself doesn't seem expensive at around £100 from ebay. Perhaps anyone knows a place in NorthEast of UK that have done this?
btw Since I saw that some have got theirs welded, was wondering if they can be ''fixed'' yourself somehow by smearing/sealing the cracked stuff with the exhaust repair pastes /or using the liquid metal epoxy pastes such as jbweld/quick steel? That is if you can get access to smear it in easily? Btw How easy it is to access the exhaust manifold so you could possibly do that? I have patched up exhausts on 2 cars before with that repair paste so just wondering If this could be done here as well as a cheap and fast fix that could work for some time?
The car otherwise is a great car, only I'm kinda reluctant to spend the same $ to repair such thing as the car is worth itself.
I have seen some have got theirs done by honda for free/only labor due to the widespread problem, however, there's probably no way they would do it on such an old car.
As I understand it's quite expensive to replace it due to the work that is required to swap it/get to it.
Anyone have done this and know the approx costs to get it done? The part itself doesn't seem expensive at around £100 from ebay. Perhaps anyone knows a place in NorthEast of UK that have done this?
btw Since I saw that some have got theirs welded, was wondering if they can be ''fixed'' yourself somehow by smearing/sealing the cracked stuff with the exhaust repair pastes /or using the liquid metal epoxy pastes such as jbweld/quick steel? That is if you can get access to smear it in easily? Btw How easy it is to access the exhaust manifold so you could possibly do that? I have patched up exhausts on 2 cars before with that repair paste so just wondering If this could be done here as well as a cheap and fast fix that could work for some time?
The car otherwise is a great car, only I'm kinda reluctant to spend the same $ to repair such thing as the car is worth itself.
I have seen some have got theirs done by honda for free/only labor due to the widespread problem, however, there's probably no way they would do it on such an old car.