Had to replace the rear box on the Picasso today - noticed last weekend it was sounding a bit raspy, and it's got worse this week so thought I had better have a look at it. Found the flange on the rear box almost rotted right off - not in the usual place at the box, but around the clamp. Phoned the local exhaust place and they wanted a ton to do it, but were about to close - phoned a local factors and bagged a new box for £26!! seems like the price was wrong to me, but there you go - I didn't argue. Anyway, point of this post (apart from pointing out the mark up at fast fit places!) is that the rear box only has 2 hangers at the rear, so if the box fails at the front it could pivot down and dig into the road - worth keeping an eye on the state of this part, and changing out before it gets too serious.
On ours there is also a hanger on the pipe wrapped around the sub frame cross tube, and this has rotted through. I've put a jubilee clip round it, hopefully this will satisfy the MOT man, as the new clamp costs £25, and there doesn't look a right lot of room to get the clamp in past the torsion and anti roll bars. In fact I can't imagine you can get it in at all....!
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