I would like to sincerely apologise to the residents of my local town for what happened on Thursday evening

As I left my Tai Chi class, feeling very relaxed and at one with the universe, the exhaust on the Daihatsu sort of disassembled itself a bit. The centre pipe (with silencer) had wiggled free of the front pipe and fell off. Sadly for the locals, I didn't have a 16mm spanner on me, and the clamp was done up a bit too tight to be able to wiggle the centre pipe back on. I decided that I could call the breakdown people and wait hours for them to come and then spend 30 seconds with a spanner fixing it, or just YOLO it home. Guess which one I chose?

Yeah, sorry about that. I tried to keep the revs down as much as possible, and drive as slowly as practical, but nothing was going to disguise the fact that there was only 2' of straight pipe to quieten* down the noise of Daihatsu's finest. It was OK at idle, and there was a weird spot at approx 1983rpm where it was actually no louder than normal, but anything else was A BIT LOUD. Especially pulling away from junctions and extra especially going up hills.

Happily though I made it home without the rozzers pulling me over, and I've been able to loosen the clamp, slide it all back together with some exhaust paste and do the clamp up REALLY TIGHT this time. Now I know its a bit prone to this I can check it more regularly!

mercifully, the centre and rear bit didn't hang down very far so it didn't get smacked clean off the car on some of the potholes round here