before i bought the car there was an exhaust rattle. the previous owners took it to the dealer and they fixed it. the rattle came back, i looked under the car and found a bracket to be bent so badly that it ripped a nut thru the frame! what do i do???

here is the brace and the location of the bolt


here is one angle from under my car. the bolt on the far left is the one that ripped out


here is another angle. you can see the lock-nut that should be inside the frame, but its in plain view.


here is a close up of the last angle at the actual damage. theres the nut...

 

I'd suggest you visit a body shop for repairs.

Most likely they will take your interior apart, placing some new sheet metal from the inside over the ripped out section.

 

u think they really gotta take out the interior?

 

That happened to mine 3 days after purchasing it. Night time; no room to swerve; too fast to stop; hit a LARGE catalytic converter laying in the road. My incident differs in that the bolts stayed attached, and the brace ripped out from under them. Because of that, it was an easy fix. It left the brace rubbing against the driveshaft, and I was able to crawl underneath and bend it back and forth until it broke off, then carefully drove it back to the dealer. Good luck with yours!

 

Dude that sucks I would just take it back to the dealer an have them replace it.

 

i dont think they can replace mine it ripped right out of the frame

 

ouch.. just take it to dealer and see what they say

 

Nothing a good body shop can't fix.....a few minutes with a welder, some undercoating and you should be good to bolt up a new bracket and be off

 

took it to the dealer, they said its a body shop job, nothing they can do but order me a new bracket

 

looks like you will be taking it in to a bodyshop then. make sure they're reputable and get that sucker fixed.

 

 

Exactly the same thing i got after 1 week i bought the car

 

SCSI- It's funny you revived this one. My accident stated above occured while driving through Aiea.

 

lol... something wrong in that area? lol

 

wow u were in aiea?

 

You don't need a new bracket you can fix it.