Will muffler sealant be a temporary fix for a rusted resonator?
Asked by stacia99 Feb 08, 2018 at 09:31 PM about the 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix 4 Dr GT Sedan
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
Hello all. We have a rusted resonator that is letting exhaust get into the car when the defroster is on (not otherwise, the best we can tell). We were going to get it repaired tomorrow but the mechanic told us they can't get a part in yet.
Because we also have a large-ish oil leak, we're going to have a talk about just getting a new car.
Would muffler sealant be something that might help us with the leak temporarily? Is there any kind of temp fix for something like this?
6 Answers
beatupchevy answered 6 years ago
from my experience muffler tape is a messy waste of time , try an independent muffler shop
Okay, thanks guys. I wasn't getting a great feeling about the sealant and tape I was seeing online. We live in a smallish town so repair options are limited. That's why we do so much of our own repair. The independent shops take days and days to fix something and we can't go without a car that long. The local chain is where we were going tomorrow, but there's one guy there who for some reason thinks they can't replace a resonator, which is why he "forgot" to order the part for us. Then Midas of course wants to replace the whole system and won't even quote us for anything else. I don't even want to think about what the oil leak is.
I too have had zero luck with muffler patching products.
Thanks Js08016 for the part number -- I don't believe anything else has rusted, because they were under there looking at the whole system to find out why we got exhaust in the car and surely would have noticed. Well, I HOPE that's the case, at any rate.
Any competent muffler shop can replace individual components without any drama. That a chain shop wants to sell you an entire system just shows that they don't know what they are doing. Tell the shop that you will take your car in once they have the parts. The job should only be an hour.
