Don't you hate it when....... Options

[Fastbird]

You are doing work on a friends car while he's deployed (01 Golf TDI with the ALH motor) and it fights you tooth and nail. Weekend before last, I did a timing belt swap on it. Not so bad. Last week I spend fighting the rear brakes, which had a solidly frozen caliper slide pin on each side, and my friend being pretty well off accepted my advice to just do new brackets, rotors and pads. But screw you VW for using allen headed bolts on everything. Made me spend HOURS on the job just to get things apart. But.....I digress.

Friday night after I finished up with the brakes, I was moving my buddies car out of my garage so I could put the Celica back in. Given where cars were situated, and I've got another vehicle present waiting to be worked on, it was easiest for me to back the Celica into the garage. Or at least try. There's a pretty good step from the gravel on to the concrete for the garage. I have 2x6 leaders that I drive up so I don't scrape. But......going backwards......the resonator caught and brought the car to a VERY abrupt halt. And the exhaust got louder. Dang near ripped the downpipe in half. FML.

Just ordered a new one from that stupidly expensive if you're a seller auction site, but haven't been under the car yet to see if any of the rest of the custom exhaust got mangled in the process. I'm PRAYING not because that's going to SUCK to get repaired.