I take it that's a no then, quite surprised cos I thought these were common failure points on this car

Guess I'll be looking for a plan B then, wonder if I can convince the guy to sell just the zorst

Yeah that's one option, the only issue is postage cost unless I sell them locally. It just seems a bit silly to have to post such heavy items twice, I'm assuming that if someone wanted the cats the seller would be happy to post them directly, as he'll probably need to split the package anyway due to size and weight.

I may buy the lot anyway, as I really want an OE exhaust on the car to get rid of the noise my current system makes.

This'll be interesting. Two jocks haggling

LOL.. well the plan was to buy the lot and sort out the cost between myself and whoever wants the cats The price for the lot is a bit more than I'd be looking to pay for a used exhaust, but including the cats it's actually a really good price as a pair of good cats generally go for more than the exhaust does. I could just buy the lot and re-sell the cats to recoup some of the cost, but postage is rather expensive so having to factor in another postage cost would eat a good chunk of that.

If you're seriously after replacement cats (and are willing to pay lol) then let me know ASAP as I have to decide soon if I'm going to buy the lot. It'll almost certainly work out a fair bit cheaper than you'll pay at a scrappy for cats with no guarantee that they're actually working in my experience.

Yeah I did consider buying from TC but it still works out at around £300. I wouldn't mind paying that if the old exhaust was knackered and I'd got good use of it, but it's still damn near new looking, just crap quality so drones at between 1.5-2.5k revs. I can sort of drive around it but it's a real pain in town, hence why if a cheap opportunity to replace with genuine parts comes up I'm going to take it.

Considering that this includes the cats, if I resell those even at a cheap price it will work out significantly cheaper than buying from TC.

Interestingly enough I was offered a full cat-back Remus stainless sytem for £150, very good price as it'll outlive the car but without hearing it I was too afraid it would be too noisy for my liking.

D'oh! Out of interest how much did you pay? I'm gonna call this guy pretty soon and see how much he'll take off for just the zorsts, then decide from there whether I'm better just buying the lot and reselling the cats.

Not too bad actually if they were tested working. I'm sure it'd have been cheaper if we'd both gone in with this exhaust system but with the postage costing so much there's not a huge saving to be made. So you didn't lose out too badly