Fiat 500 Exhaust Systems

Overall, I'm very happy with the final result. I'd definitely recommend. Install wasn't difficult, but it wasn't exactly fast or simple either. Quality materials with a high sheen finish - looks just as good as the pics, and the sound itself is really good too - moderately loud (but not obnoxious) with a raspy crackle on downshift and deceleration. Can drone a bit on the highway since these cars are geared low - but it's definitely manageable. The bad.... let's start with the packaging... The box it came it was cheap thin unmarked cardboard and it was really beat up. Like bad. Holes in the box, squished corners, ripped tape, the whole 9 yards. Then upon opening the box, I found no real packing for protection inside either. Three pieces of pipe, a pack of gaskets and bolts, and a muffler wrapped in single layer, thin bubble wrap. No foam or paper space filler, no install instructions or stickers... Nothing. Just pipes in a box. None of it actually appeared to be bent, scuffed, or otherwise damaged though, much to my surprise - but my first impression wasn't good. With no instructions coming with it and nothing really online about it, I wouldn't recommend installing it yourself it if you've never done an exhaust, but it is pretty straight forward if you have. Removal of the old is always the worst part. Fiat uses some very interesting/frustrating hangers. Install itself wasn't too bad, except you have to reuse the original bolts from the cat to mid-pipe... Which are probably badly rusted if your car is more than a couple years old - be careful removing them!! The other thing that made the installation difficult (time consuming, anyway) is where they put the flanges and pipe bends. A few of the flanges are at ridiculous angles where you can't use a socket because of the way the pipe bends. After it was on, I noticed the tip doesn't stick out. At all. Kind of disappointing because it's a really nice looking tip, but not a huge deal. Aside from installation and packing gripes - it's a heavy duty 304 stainless that looks amazing and sounds even better. After all, sound is why we get pipes in the first place, right. You won't be disappointed with this, it sounds like a micro rally car!