Exhaust Corrosion

paulieeye

A few days ago I noticed the sound of my Bandit being a bit different...so I went home and discovered this lovely sight...



Bike isnt that old, 2006, the rest of the exhaust looks in good shape, its just at this join bit under the pegs. Its pretty corroded going the whole way around to the back.
What could of caused this, salt on the roads?? I dont clean the bike that much, maybe twice a year.
Also, is this tough to fix? Hopefully not a new exhaust needed

frozenfrozen

you could get a new big welded on no big deal if it's just those holes you want to fix but if the whole pipe is bad then just get something from a breakers yard. probably 30-50 euro fix

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/SUZUKI-GSF-600-BANDIT-S-GN77B-EXHAUST-MUFFLER-59-/391621413245?hash=item5b2e74897d:g:ERcAAOSwXeJYJE5l would that do you

Colm17RvB

paulieeye wrote: »

sound of my Bandit being a bit different...

What could of caused this, salt on the roads?? I dont clean the bike that much, maybe twice a year.
Also, is this tough to fix? Hopefully not a new exhaust needed

Bet it sounded like a tractor!

It's not the salt, it's you not cleaning it, I'm the same. I just had to get my headers welded for the time being, but I'll need to get stainless steel ones fitted down the line. Delkevic seem to be good for brand new pipes.

I got it cleaned by motorbikevaleting.ie (that's what they're called, but I don't think they have an actual website, they're on facebook though!) with ACF treatment, so shiney now, and the ACF prevents further corrosion, but I have to clean it more frequently now (just give it a hose down once every month or two).

stewygriffin

Black Friday and Cyber Monday....................good excuse for a new exhaust system.

arybvtcw0eolkf

paulieeye wrote: »

I dont clean the bike that much, maybe twice a year.(

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Twice a year!.. [whether it needs it or not]

pablo128

Exhausts rust from the inside out. For every litre of petrol that you use, (maybe 10 miles) there is about a litre of water in the volume of air that enters the engine in that time. That water has to go somewhere. If you don't heat the exhaust up fully, short trips for example, it will condense on the inside of the exhaust, and rust it out.

My father has a 17 year old petrol car, which has 300k miles and the original exhaust. That's because the car is used almost always on motorway journeys of at least an hour at a time.

Hotblack Desiato

Yep exhaust rot is not due to cleaning or lack of.

Mak I thought you'd be taking the opportunity to stick the boot in on the poor quality of materials in the Bandits

No excuse for any bike built in the last twenty years or so not to have a full stainless steel system as standard, mild steel (however shiny and chromed it looks on the outside) is just cack.

paulieeye

so as a follow up on this...

mechanic cut out the rusted bit and welded it back together. sounds perfect now. cost me 90 bob. had a look around city spares but nothing suitable there.

As was mentioned here, this was not to do with cleaning or maintenance and is hard to avoid. Rots from the inside out, seems a bit shiity for a 2006 bike

Max Headroom

paulieeye wrote: »

so as a follow up on this...

mechanic cut out the rusted bit and welded it back together. sounds perfect now. cost me 90 bob. had a look around city spares but nothing suitable there.

As was mentioned here, this was not to do with cleaning or maintenance and is hard to avoid. Rots from the inside out, seems a bit shiity for a 2006 bike

mmmm..............bet yer chain gatheres the leaves up too.....:pac: