Anyone installed that mufflers?
 

EURO EXHAUST MUFFLER BMW M3 325I 328I 525I 540I Z3 X5:eBay Motors (item 160333823835 end time May-15-09 06:24:39 PDT)

Do they fit nicely? Why so cheap? Anyone installed them? Direct fitment?

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Those have got to be POS. 16.99 for a muffler? You can't even get that price for the cheapest regular steel muffler at a muffler shot and these guys are trying to say it is SS for 16.99.

Please.

Do a search around the web for these mufflers in use, you will find little if anything. Stick with known brands and remember, you get what you pay for. I would imagine these are crap and an installation nightmare. IMO.

:iagree: Stick with the known brands. But that 16.99 is just a teaser price...they're getting you back on the shipping charges...so their specs on it being SS may be legit. The rest (sound, flow, etc) is a toss up.

All I can say is "You get what you pay for".

i've installed them not the perfect fitment but the perfect sound.

01 BMW X5 4.4i

Exhaust Cilp
YouTube - 2001 BMW X5 4.4i Exhaust Reving

Exhaust Picture
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How long have you had them for? and im shocked these fit... how long did the install take you + do they sound decent? (I could not hear anything on the youtube video right now since I disconnected my speakers) :rolleyes:

I'm surprised they fit also. The stock X5 mufflers are so short, so it's nice to see something that works that isn't in the $1k price range. I have Magnaflow 14816's on my 7, but they're like twice as long as the stock X5 mufflers. I know w/ my Magnaflows that they started to gradually get louder over time, but finally settled. I wonder how these will do after 6 months.

LOL - 6 out of the 8 pictures show an E70 X5 on the ad for this cheap little muffler.

Sobi...I've seen guys in 530's try to install the same Magnaflow 14815/14816's that we M5/540/740/750 guys have used, only to have it drone like mad on the I6's because of the decreased engine size. Anything you put on your I6 will have completely different results than it would have on the V8. The only way you're going to be able to search around for exhausts is to either look here or on the other bimmer boards and make sure you're looking at I6 specific threads. On my 7 I removed the resonator and replaced it w/ an x-pipe and the Mag mufflers...sounded like complete ass. After countless threads, it's either the V8 guys do the x-pipe or the mufflers, but not both (Magnaflow specific, I can't say for those who used $$Dinan$$, etc). Since you've already got tips, and I don't know if the I6 X5's even have an x-pipe (I don't see how they could based on the engine design), you're better of searching around for what's already been done and go from there.

I've had them since late July. They were not suppose to fit. I went to 3 diff... Exhaust shops and this guy charged me $150 to install both of them. The guy spend a good 1.5 hours on each exhaust. On a 4.4i they sound very good for the cheapness but, i want it to be louder so im installing an X-Pipe.

Hey you get what you pay for, for $16.99 im sure your buying shit

Going to an X-pipe after that is going to just sound terrible, but that's my opinion. I did the same thing on my 7 after I installed my Magnaflows...it droned like mad, sounded like a motorboat popping and the sound didn't match the revs at all. There is nice and deep, then there is WTF. To each his own I guess.

At some point you're going to want software because if you keep opening the exhaust you're going to literally kill of your bottom end grunt since the ECU can only adapt so much. After the mods i've done to the motor in my 7, I can't spin the tires for my life off the line, but it's a monster above 3.5k.

I agree to a point. Myself and many others got the same crap when we did the Magnaflow mufflers, but after more people got on board and did the install, they're true abilities came to light. There were some $$Dinan$$ die hards who swore up and down about how great their $2000 exhaust system was, but it was funny when some of their own friends helped them change their minds when their own friends started installing them and becoming believers.

Now I do think those $17 mufflers after a while will fart and pop like no other since all the stuffing will blow out, and actually cause power loss since all that air isn't being directed out in the correct path anymore. Mufflers on Ferrari's w/ chambers and actuators are worlds apart then the simple mufflers like what BMWX54.4 has chosen or the Magnaflows I've chosen. As I said though, I think his mufflers were made as cheaply as possible, to there is little to no insulation in there so it will just keep getting louder and louder and louder.

why not try them out for 16.99? if they dont work you only lose that right? why not?!

Because it's $25 to ship them and another $150 to install them. I'd rather find a comparable Magnaflow knowing it's better quality and don't look back.