Rear muffler mount points bent - easily fixed?

[The91kwbeast]

Hi guys

Bought some used vf2 bi modal mufflers and didn't notice it at the time but the hanging points are very bent out of shape rendering it impossible to actually fit them myself, see pic. The tips hit the bumper bar before you can thread them through the hangers. These should sit dead straight but are way off.

No idea how the last bloke bent them out so much, maybe some very hard yanking pulling them off?

Can an exhaust shop easily straighten these out so they can be fitted or have I just picked up a dud set without realising?

Key word being easily I don't want to have to blow $300 fixing a $100 set of mufflers

Thanks so much

 

[Commo64]

Hi guys

Bought some used vf2 bi modal mufflers and didn't notice it at the time but the hanging points are very bent out of shape rendering it impossible to actually fit them myself, see pic. The tips hit the bumper bar before you can thread them through the hangers. These should sit dead straight but are way off.

No idea how the last bloke bent them out so much, maybe some very hard yanking pulling them off?

Can an exhaust shop easily straighten these out so they can be fitted or have I just picked up a dud set without realising?

Key word being easily I don't want to have to blow $300 fixing a $100 set of mufflers

Thanks so much

Idk on whether they could be fixed but those mufflers look like they've been in some pretty bad accident which has probably written off the doner car completely...

 

[The91kwbeast]

Idk on whether they could be fixed but those mufflers look like they've been in some pretty bad accident which has probably written off the doner car completely...

It's only the two two metal thread bits that go into the hangers that are bent

Some minor scrapes on the bottom of one but the tips and everything else is fine it's just the hangers that are bent

 

[VS 5.0]

Have you tried bending them back ?

 

[The91kwbeast]

Have you tried bending them back ?

Yep but they're steel, can't do anything much by hand.

Basically I'm hoping at this point an exhaust shop can soften them up by heating them but I'm also worried due to the location that may not be possible

Seems from searching this forum I may have been the only person to encounter this issue somehow

 

[VS 5.0]

Yep but they're steel, can't do anything much by hand.

Basically I'm hoping at this point an exhaust shop can soften them up by heating them but I'm also worried due to the location that may not be possible

Seems from searching this forum I may have been the only person to encounter this issue somehow

Heat and leverage should sort them out.

 

[_R_J_K_]

Yep but they're steel, can't do anything much by hand.

Slip a jack handle or pipe or some box tube over it.