I read a few threads about the exhaust, muffler actually, swaying and hitting the large, flat piece of the hitch. Everybody kept saying use longer hangers, but have you seen what it looks like that low?! Everybody said use urethane hangers because they give less.
Well, I decided to get longer, urethane hangers from Amazon dirt cheap...not the performance supplier at 4 times the cost, sorry. They arrived and are as described.
Okay I'm under the car, putting them on and trying the different heights. Goldilocks was right. Only one setting was best. Two holes below factory. I pushed sideways on the muffler to see the difference it made. NONE, really. Hmm. Let me look at the situation again....
AHA! The REAL problem is not the soft factory hangers. The problem is the arms they go on are long and allow the hangers to slide side to side! What was MY solution? Easy. Keep using the longer urethane hangers AND the factory ones, but how?
I cut the old ones just under halfway lengthwise and close to a third in width, so they can be added to the new ones and fill the space on the arm. One arm has it on the outboard side and the other, the inboard side. Another has them on the same side. I pushed on the muffler and now....minimal movement! You're welcome.
I have had it strike the hitch only once, on a typical Philly suburb road as I was cornering a little faster than usual of course.
See pics and be careful cutting the factory hangers. I used a brand new knife dedicated for the toolbox, so the edges are not perfect, nor need to be.
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Well, I decided to get longer, urethane hangers from Amazon dirt cheap...not the performance supplier at 4 times the cost, sorry. They arrived and are as described.
Okay I'm under the car, putting them on and trying the different heights. Goldilocks was right. Only one setting was best. Two holes below factory. I pushed sideways on the muffler to see the difference it made. NONE, really. Hmm. Let me look at the situation again....
AHA! The REAL problem is not the soft factory hangers. The problem is the arms they go on are long and allow the hangers to slide side to side! What was MY solution? Easy. Keep using the longer urethane hangers AND the factory ones, but how?
I cut the old ones just under halfway lengthwise and close to a third in width, so they can be added to the new ones and fill the space on the arm. One arm has it on the outboard side and the other, the inboard side. Another has them on the same side. I pushed on the muffler and now....minimal movement! You're welcome.
I have had it strike the hitch only once, on a typical Philly suburb road as I was cornering a little faster than usual of course.
See pics and be careful cutting the factory hangers. I used a brand new knife dedicated for the toolbox, so the edges are not perfect, nor need to be.
Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk