stainless sytem has to be the way to go, but I quite liked these systems http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sport-Exh...CarParts_SM&hash=item2566a129ce#ht_1461wt_825 and was looking for a centre section for the 4x4 (as mine is shot) but you can't get one because it comes welded to the back box on the 4x4 (and I can't justify buying a new standard system only to go and chop the back box off. What I really need is someone in the South East to make me a centre section or full stainless systems (if its not too expensive), then I can fit it and forget about it for 5 years.

To be fair there are plenty of places around that will make an exhaust system for you to your own requirements.

If you're in the South East there's a place about 300 yds past Brands Hatch on Death Hill that does exhausts. Just google etc.

I recently got quoted £330 for a cat back system on my car (not a Panda), but expect around that figure I'd say. That's a stainless system made to my spec with a lifetime warranty.

Just thought I'd post a pic of my Powerspeed Longlife stainless system fitted yesterday to my Panda 4x4. The entire original 2005 exhaust was pretty rotten so I had this fitted as a finishing touch, which includes the centre section all in stainless, including the flexihose section, right upto the manifold. Its great, it looks better, sounds better and should last the life of the car.

Arrghh, the wheelbarrow look!

Twin exits for a 1.2!

Good to see someone else playing with their 4x4. I too have aLonglife on mine (via the highly recommended Fastfit Service Centre in Basingstoke and the very affable manager 'Matt' - 01256 321800) and that is a full 4-2-1 manifold and 200cpsi CAT all the way back. Nicely subdued noise, but very very much more efficient that the OEM system.

Although its not easy to hear the exhaust over the sound of the supercharger and dyno fans, here's a link to a quick video clip during last weeks' mapping check-up;

Ace - your 4x4 sounds very interesting. I've only had mine a few weeks and have just been doing the essentials after previous owner left it sitting in the garage for a few years due to poor health (have replaced all disks and pads for Mintex cross-drilled, all filters and fluids changed, along with timing belt for a Continental one, the exhaust of course, and waxoiled the underside too. I will look into filter, plugs and basic mapping for economy in due course. I don't want to go to mad but next year's service might uprate the shocks as these do let it down a bit.

Indeed it would be a great little car (especially in Multijet or 100hp form - but there is something fun about the raspy little 1.2 fire engine, and its simple to maintain and I can live with the 40mpg average - compared to my old Discovery1's 25mpg on diesel it replaces!). Keep in touch and let me know what you have done to yours over time, nice to speak to another "PandRover" owner.
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Trackdayqueen - admittedly its a bit OTT for a 18,000 mile 1.2 - you can see I'm a budding 100hp owner but need the 4x4 for practical reasons towing/launching dingy and getting about all year around. When our LupoTDi goes in a year or two I might add a 100hp to the collection.
regards Matt "the wheelbarrow" Stears
PS got the idea for the backbox from this (as the expansion box across the back lends itself to the twin outlet very easily, although I'd have been quite happy with a single outlet too - just wanted a stainless system that would sound reasonable and last the life of the car):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sport-Exh...CarParts_SM&hash=item2566a37548#ht_1441wt_866