2004 legacy 3.0 saloon - exhaust system & fuel consumption

[Colin M]

Hello I'm shortly to acquire a 2004 legacy 3.0 auto saloon from my mum who is giving up driving at the age of 85. My dad had the car from about 6 months old but he died a few years back. It needs a new exhaust urgently but I don't want a noisy one and she's been quoted around £1200 for a Subaru one. I've seen that there are much cheaper after market ones e.g. Gerlach but they only seem to be for the estate models. Does anyone know a good place to get either a cheaper steel one for this car or a quiet stainless one? The car is currently in North Yorkshire near Skipton. I plan to keep it for many years, less than 50k on the clock at present but I'm a bit intimidated by the likely fuel consumption...is converting to lpg or to a manual gearbox a sensible consideration? 

[david1972]

You need to be doing big miles to make LPG worthwhile. Plenty of stainless exhaust specialists who will do you a full cat back system for under 500; Longlife for one

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[Rizmo]

Forget LPG, as that seems to be going out of fashion. BP are removing LPG pumps from their own filling stations, and where they lead, others are bound to follow. Plenty of stainless steel exhaust manufacturers about.

[tom_gr7]

Yeah Longlife or powerflow will make you a stainless exhaust for about 500 quid.