Our Yaris exhaust is 13 years old. A three yearly brush down, rust treatment and repaint with heat proof paint works wonders..

Where are you getting the stainless exhaust GB? I found our local Longlife centre could make a tail pipe section for a Musso cheaper than buying one from a motor factors.

Two choices, there's a longlife place at Northampton, the mechanic there impressed me by not wanting to replace the rear box on the old MB with a stainless custom, angle the pipe enters the box meant the type of box he'd have to use would leave it sounding a little uncouth...OE pipes all suffer from salt battering over the rear axle, but cheap enough to simply replace when needed.

Thats my nearest stainless centre...MIJ at Walsall seem to do a few for Subarus, and i've toyed with getting it done the same day as we nip over to Tenbury to get the LPG system serviced and checked over...bit of a trek if it needs any warranty work though.

Happy to hear of any recommendations within sensible travelling distance of Northants though.

It needs doing because the main box on the 3.0 H6 has a valve arrangement inside that opens up under pressure to allow better flow when needed, but again its an expensive OE only and i'm 99% certain that someone has chucked a normal 2.5 box on which doesn't have this fitting and is effectively strangling the exhaust at higher revs...SWMBO is a bit of a hooligan still, not me i've got a perma halo..:-)

You really don't want to know what OE Subaru exhausts cost, probably more than we paid for the car.