Was putting in some ceramic coated 4-2-1 headers (thanks tanc) today... Didn't get all the way there, ran into a couple stuck bolts.

First one finally came off after some PB blaster, some whacks of hammer, and 30 minutes of tugging and pulling. The second one halted the progress, broke the wrench... took it to a mechanic and convinced him to help us out. He put it up on the lift and took his impact driver to it, and no go. Said the only way would be to take it to the local exhaust shop and cut it off. (Unfortunately it was 4:50 and everything was closing up)

So, I'll have to do it tomorrow... Everything else is all set up and ready.

When I removed the heat shield I was surprised to see that my manifold was thoroughly cracked, here are some pics:

Question is: Is it under recall? If it is, should I bother with getting it done and sell off the one they give me? (Or keep it in case I decided to sell the car as stock)



EDIT: Damn... the lil emotes don't work in the subtitle, and I can't edit it!

 

Yep it's definetly been recalled. Why bother getting it replaced though if you're gonna throw on aftermarket headers? Unless you wanna hang on to a stock manifold, I doubt youd be able to sell it but would be go to have if you do sell teh car like you said.

 

I would have hyundai replace the manifold if its under warranty just so A. I don't have to pay for labor getting the old one off. B. less chance of someone not under a hyundai warranty breaking something that I will in turn fix.

yes you will have the same ole manifold on there when you leave but its nothing to take that one off after they have messed with it. then go home and put on your new one.

just my opinion.

 

yeah it's on recall, and it's still possible to do it, mine was changed last month

 

your assuming they would even fix it under recall, they would only supply the manifold for me, but i had to pay for the install.



-the one reason i can say my tibby is the VERY last hyundai ill own, there dealerships are straight evil-

 

I've already loosened up all the nuts holding the manifold on. The thing holding me up is the rust welded bolts connect the flex pipe... I'm going to have a go at them right now, in the rain... just want to get my new headers on and stop the car from being so damn noisy. Figure I'll try to torch em, spray em, hammer em, and have a go at them... and repeat till I get em all off. ... err... just remembered I broke my wrench... Hum.. have to get a new one heh.

I'll put the cracked header aside and contact the local (60 mi away) dealership and have em replace it, just so if I want to, I can go back to stock. Since that hasn't been checked, I'll go ahead and have em look at all possible recalls on the car at the same time.

Far as bad dealerships go: It varies town to town. My brother (has a GK) has had good service at decent pricing at the dealership he has gone to. Not great pricing, but the same as any mechanic shop around here. What I'm trying to say, its not Hyundai that causes bad dealerships, its the people running them. If you find some decent people running a Hyundai dealership you'd have a lot better experience I'd think.

^^ just my 2 cents

 

the bolts on the downpipe can be a pain, i just snapped mine in half when removing it, which didnt bother me being that i wasnt going to re-use them.

if there tough, just use a breaker bar, and snap the head off, then it comes right out.

 

I've cracked two sets of stock manifolds, just ended up getting a set of headers with my new exhaust.

 

Just have a dealer replace it.

When I got mine replaced, I looked at the charges, it woudl had cost $1200+. But since it was dealer done, no cost to me.

 

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the dealer is the one that wanted to charge for the install. supposedly the recal only covers the part, not the cost to install it. (bullshit)

hence why i have a rd1 1.8 OEM exhaust manifold now. there a tubular steel with no inline cat. basically a poor mans header.