Ark exhaust broke

imwazn

I bought a used Ark Grip V2 at the end of June off of the forum. I haven't had anything bad to say about the exhaust up until yesterday. I love the sound of it, the performance and everything else. Onto the story though.

I was driving to a friend's house for a bbq taking a somewhat back road that's under construction. I've driven the road at least thirty times before both ways. The road is rather bumpy, but there have never been any problems scraping or anything over them (I'm lowered on Eibach's). Anyways, we were driving down the road, went over a bump which wasn't big at all. I heard a pretty loud clunk, which scared the **** out of me. I pulled over, got out and proceeded to see my mufflers sitting on the ground. Pictures were not on my mind at this point, so I don't have any of the exhaust still on the car. The hangers were no longer in, which explained why it was on the ground. Additionally, the tips were sticking out about four or five inches further than it should be. I saw a tear in the flex joints (at least that's what I think it's called, it's the metal weave parts). At this point I was pretty pissed.

A guy in a six series saw us standing on the side of the road and hopped out to help. We managed to pull the exhaust high enough to not drag it so I could drive it. I pulled it up to the closest mechanic and left it there for the night. This morning I brought my stock exhaust there. I didn't want to try to drive my car back home to do it myself, just in case something else had happened to my car. So they installed my stock exhaust again and everything was all fine. We went to go check out the exhaust and I guess I'll let the pictures do the talking.






At this point I don't really know what to do... I'm going to call the city to see if they will pay for the damages. Also, it's only the x-pipe so I might talk to Ark to see my options in buying just that. The mechanic said that it probably isn't repairable and I would agree, but I might also see if an exhaust shop would weld something up.