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Hey guys, im driving a 320i se with a standerd exhaust system, but it is very loud. Are they ment to be like this or is the baffles nackered??? ive checked for leaks and all is ok.

video of me driving the car, listen to how loud the exhaust is



any advice is appriciated.

Raj

dunno - I was surprised when some mate and I bought a 325 about how loud it was and I'm pretty sure there was nothing wrong with it.

Hard to tell from the video. You or you mates got another 6pot to compare it with ?

But regardless of noise, why weren't you hangin' the back end out round those roundabouts

hoshy wrote:dunno - I was surprised when some mate and I bought a 325 about how loud it was and I'm pretty sure there was nothing wrong with it.

Hard to tell from the video. You or you mates got another 6pot to compare it with ?

But regardless of noise, why weren't you hangin' the back end out round those roundabouts

i've not compared it to another 6pot, ill have to.

as for letting the back end out, im new to rear wheel drive, and that was my first day with the car. Dont worry, im practicing

cheers for the advice

thats a lot louder and deeper than mine with a standard system.

you got a centre box on that?

HairyScreech wrote:thats a lot louder and deeper than mine with a standard system.

you got a centre box on that?

you know what i never noticed, i had a look under neath for leaks but never checked for a centre box, i shall look tomorrow.

cheers buddy

doesn't sound standard to me...

nor me, standard on my pre-facelift 325i is nigh on silent, but when my center box went it sounded just like that. if not louder,

I reckon its a hole in the centre box. There's a slight buzzing sound that's a bit too loud to be rear box. I had a hole in a middle box too once, and it sounded the nts at certain rpm and shite at others!

much louder than my 320i. thats got aftermarket/hole about it, mines got a higher rev ring to it. but none of the bwah at all(unlike my civic)

I agree with oze30. I had an old E36 and it sounded like that when there was a hole immediately behind the cat.

Standard BMW exhausts are very quiet.

i've got a couple of rusty holes in my centre box and my car sounds like that but I have a scorpion rear box, makes my car sound crap until 4krpm when the cam kicks in

it will be the baffles corroded and in pieces, my mates got a 325i, and the baffles are gone, sounds ace, but lags power coz of it...

sounds like part of the exhaust system is in contact with the heat shiels and reverberating through the car, happened on mine

cheers for the advice guys, i shall have a closer look

Yup that sounds shagged. In a very good way though. What you REALLY want, is to replace the entire exhaust with straight pipe, with a lil' cherry bomb type silencer on the pipe(s) at the end. Will sound sexual

Sounds a bit like mine which has 3 air leaks at the moment! New system going on tomorrow.
They're not the quietest as standard but yeah thats not normal! Sounds good though