Well, let me start off by saying that as far as customer support, the people at Corsa were great. I dealt with Paul Santiago and he was pleasant as well as helpful.

The story is here: I purchased my car with the Corsa installed and fell in love instantly (the corsa was one of the biggest reasons I bought my particular car). About a month after owning it it developed a rattle on the inside that started small and eventually defeloped into a loud and obnoxious sound. I was embarrassed to even drive to the gas station! To make a long story short I read on another thread of several people here having similar problems and Corsa helping them out, so I did the same thing and contacted Corsa. Understandably, though they do have a Lifetime warranty on thier products, that applies only to the original purchaser so I was out of luck as far as that goes. They did agree, however, to allow me to purchase JUST the muffler to replace mine for a 'reduced' price. They also were to send out a prepaid shipping order to hve me return my defective muffler for them to investigate.

Well $240 later the muffler came in and I went t ohave it welded into the system and get it all back in order which ended up costing me an extra $110. No big deal, it was completely worth it to hear it crank up without a rattle and hear the lope again!

That was 3 days ago... Today... It rattles worse than it ever did before. The exact same problem. I put about 300-400 miles on it, and yes I did romp it it with a few WOT runs (who wouldn't). So now I've got the same problem, slighly worse in sound level, and am out about $350 (1/2 the cost of a good replacement catback). I really LOVE the corsa sound, but I don't want to fool with it any more. My car is no slouch, but it is far from pushing enough airflow to blow out two muffler's internals.

Currently I'm awaiting response on the feasibility of just getting my money back that I had to pay for the replacement. I'll ship it back to them no problem. It looks like I might be out of luck if I want to run a Corsa system. I'm already going to be out another $100 or so to have this one cut out and replaced (not counting the cost of a new muffler). I'm just sick about it all!

Now that I've vented a little, again let me reitterate that I was satisfied up to this point with the customer service, but this latest advent of problems in the build quality is more than disconcerting to me. Looks like I might end up going with the B&B Triflow or Magnaflow after all.

Just how widespread is this problem with the corsa? Does anyone have a known count? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="gr_images/icons/mad.gif" />

 

mine works fine, and i have had it for over a year now...oh, btw, why did you weld the muffler in, that is unnecessary...i wonder if that has anything to do with your problems???

 

Well you didn't say how old your car was so here is a stab in the dark.

I have had the material in a catylitic converter go bad and eventually break up into bits and rattle around in the exhaust.

OR

What is the material in the muffler? chambered similar to flowmaster or baffeled like a SLP exhaust? Either way there should not be any pieces rattleing around in there.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Y2K Camaro SS:
<strong>Well you didn't say how old your car was so here is a stab in the dark.

I have had the material in a catylitic converter go bad and eventually break up into bits and rattle around in the exhaust.

OR

What is the material in the muffler? chambered similar to flowmaster or baffeled like a SLP exhaust? Either way there should not be any pieces rattleing around in there.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The car is a 99. Also, it is running without Cats. I don't know what it is that is 'breaking loose' on the inside of it exactly. I do know that it doesn't use baffles. the best I can imagine is that there is a wall or plate in there that is coming loose and 'flaps' around in there under the airflow. I know of at least one other person with the exact same problem and when they sent him the replacement it did the exact same thing 3 days later as well. I'm willing to bet there are many more out there that we don't know about. If the replacemetns are doing the same things then odds are REALLY good that the 'problem' batch count is higher than people realize.

 

I have a loudmouth setup on my car 98 TA. It also has rattles but only at WOT when I let off, I thought it was the tail pipe turns out its the heat shield for the gas tank.

 

I had the same rattling noise in my Corsa but they replaced mine for free. The only thing I had to pay was the return of my old muffler. Mine was less than a year old.

 

Rats, wish I hadn't read this thread. Every time I read something new that I wasn't aware could happen I get it on my car in short order. My Corsa has been great for 20,000 miles so far....

I think I hear it rattling now. Darn.

Good luck with that, sorry for the problems you're having. Mine has been great.

 

::cough:: Borla rules ::cough:: <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" />

 

I'm on my third muffler in just 6 months. All the same problems that you have. It may be a lifetime warranty but I'n getting tired of pulling my muffler every other month. I run race pipes on a heads and cam TA. They don't seem to know what the problem is with my setup. They always ask me if I am runing dual stage N2O when I call.

 

My system is supposed to ship this week!!! Now I'm a little worried!!! Should I cancel my order??? Any feedback would be appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Dan

 

Any ideas what actually causes the rattling sound? Defective mufflers or maybe running with no cats? I have borderline rattling... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />

 

Best I can tell is that it seems to be most prevailant in the cars that run the Offroad Y's. I'm not sure how muh more airflow that causes the engine to see but, apparantly it's doing something. My TA is H/C and Off-Road as well and it didn't last 3 days. I'm really pushing to change over to a Dual Dual now anyhow, they are good and will tone down much of the volume level anyhow.

 

Ditto 2000LS1!
Got Borla????? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

 

man,I don't have corsa but I love that exhaust system all around, sound,look, everything. it looks like the ORP is causing this problem due to the high flow maybe?!?!?! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> oh well, If I were you, I would just get a borla muffler and leave those BADA$$ tips <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
just my $0.02
good luck.....

 

If you have to send something back under warranty, ask the manufacturer to issue a "Call Tag". UPS comes and picks it up and you pay nothing for shipping. They may not go for it, but it is worth a try. I've done it several times.

 

Um yeah, quit riding borla,

 

They replaced my muffler, hassle-free. I am very satisfied with the Corsa.. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

 

My car just recently developed a rattle also. I have the Cartek X package(427rwhp)with FLP headers and off road pipes and even though there is a lifetime warranty, I don't know if I want to be inconvienced with having to send my muffler back on a consistent basis as some people are doing. This seems to indicate a serious design problem since there are many complaints and returns.

 

Anyone else with this problem? I really want this system but I don't want the problems. I will have well over 450 rwhp next summer as well and will also not be running cats.

 

I'm running the Corsa cat-back with Hooker Lt's and ORYP. No problems here- I love it!