EBG 18T [Eric]

I just had my Milltek exhaust installed, but the OEM hangers are so sloppy/loose that it is difficult to get the exhaust tips to sit any higher into the cutouts in the rear bumper. Is there a shorter hanger or a revised hanger that might work better? I am open to suggestions and ideas. And please don't suggest that i should have bought an MTM system.. Thanks.

Eric

2004 A4 Quattro 1.8T, 6MT

hehateme

i have the same system , same prob. my left tip is lower than the right. I have to go back and try to have tht **** adjusted.

shadyraven

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I had a Milltek system installed last month and the alignment wasn't at all what I wanted - huge gap between the tip and the top of the cut out. I gave the system three weeks to take shape and shift around, then took the car to a local welder to get the system installed the way I wanted it. He ended up taking the entire system from the down-pipe back off the car and starting over. He also ajusted the length of the hanger rods so that the tips fit directly into the cut out. The outcome looks 110% better than it did the first time round.

hehateme

who installed it the first time?did you do it yourself?

EBG 18T [Eric]

I had a local shop do the install. They were kinda numbnutz and too expensive. By the time they quoted me the price of the install the guy out in the shop had already cut my stock system into peices. I was not happy, but between a rock and a hard place. So they completed the install, they had to fabricate a bracket for the front since the front downpipe bracket on the milltek did not even come close to maching up with the car. I am trying to avoid to much cutting and welding. I was hoping there was just some type of replacement hanger.. Or maybe i will just have to make a different hanger. I just have a hard time spending this much on an exhaust and having to cut and paste new parts onto it to work..

shadyraven

A local shop in Portland Oregon did it the first time, my local welder the second.

hehateme

Damn you have version 1 then? i didn't have any of those probs with mine.

hehateme

so did you have to weld the second time? sorry wasnt clear on that.

shadyraven

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hehateme

oh ok. those vibrants look great . well done!