Estate Exhausts

[LewisG]

My exhaust is leaking, its been on previous mot certificates, Ive just left it and left it, I dont want to just stick on another standard exhaust, what have you guys done? I dont want to remove the cat as Im sure the law now says if a cat was fitted originally then it needs to have one? So I was thinking

Option 1 ____Cat______straight through______using a mid box at the end__

Or would that be too noisy?

Option 2 ___Cat____midbox____midbox__