yea me too.

 

I have the same problem with my tip too when I got mine HKS. Mine is only on the driver side and it looked just like yours. I only noticed it after installed, since the box was pefect when I got it. HKS will not fix mine since my dealership installed it, and end up the local dealer who sold it to me fixing it for me. Hope HKS will fix it for yours unlike mine.

 

oh wow now i have a feeling they probably wont fix it. if i have to pay more money for this i will be pissed. i wonder is this is a quick fix. how did the dealer fix yours? i dont wanna have to pay more money

 

ok, so i know this isnt what you want to hear, but if HKS does deny the repair and you really dont want to pay for it, or you get a quote and its way high, the super cheap fix is to do this...

do all of this with the exhaust still installed so you have something holding it in place. get a 10" softball and a heavy rubber mallet (like 3 or 4 lbs) and a microfiber cloth. fold the cloth in half and drape it over the end of the exhaust tip thats messed up so you have two layers of microfiber protection. hold the softball up against the tip like you're trying to put it in the exhaust and hit the ball with the hammer. dont go too hard at first, cause you dont want to mushroom out the pipe end, but just keep tapping with a steady force. after every few hits, take the cloth off and see how you're progressing.

i know its really ghetto style mechanics and it sounds weird, but if you are desperate, it will actually work. thanks to physics, the ball will try to work its way into the pipe, which it will never actually do since its too big, but because of the fact that its a spherical object, it will exert the force from the hammer equally in all directions making contact with the surface on the opposite side you are striking, ie. the exhaust tip and it will round it back out into a circular shape.

 

I was pissed too when my dealer told me that HKS won't fix it after shipped it back to HKS USA for inspection for two weeks. My dealer end up using a small roller to roll it back to shape, and now it looks pefect. Only a very small deny on the tip of the pipe that they can't fixed but you will only see it if you get up very close. Lucky that the dealer didn't charged me with the fix (Thx Jim at RCTS), they only charged half and hour of labour to put the exhaust back on.

 

if thats the case n they dont replace it, i will never buy anything from hks ever again. i got one quote from a shop to fix it,they told me between 40-80 depending on what they had to do to it

 

what kind of a roller?did they do thar with the exhaust taken off

 

I don't know what of a roller they used, but I did have to go back to my stock exhaust while they were fixing it. My dealer also told me that if HKS is willing to fix it, chances are they will have to replace the whole exhaust.

 

yeah i went to some shops.some said it cant be fixed others say maybe it can

 

maybe i should sell it on ebay

 

why sell it.. you wouldnt get everything back you paid for it.. get it fixed.. Take it to a good exhaust shop, they shouldn't have a problem fixing that at all.. its a real easy fix.

 

i hope so im getting nervous about this

 

Not to be a dick or anything, but it seems like dumb things happen to you alot (bad eclipse experiences) Hope you get it all sorted out!

 

If you have received a faulty product and there is no marking on it to prove you did the damage, then HKS should not have a leg to stand on and have to replace it under warranty.

Ask a good exhaust shop to do a report on it before sending it back to HKS stating in their experienced opinion, what the cause of the damage is. If they say manufacturing defect then HKS have to replace it.

 

hopefully thats the case.