[Healeys] Midas muffler journey

[i erbs]

Thanks
Actually five total. The car was in storage for  a while.

Ira Erbs

On Sun, Feb 5, 2023, 6:04 PM Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thats a great story, I love how you got all those midas mufflers over the
> years.
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 11:10 AM i erbs via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ira Erbs
>> Milwaukie,OR
>>       _______                                  _______
>>      (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
>>          (_________________________)
>>           BT7 engine and disk brakes
>>
>>
>> 1Some of you may recall my battles with Midas over the last year and a
>> half. Why Midas? Well 47 years ago there were not a lot of options to get a
>> new muffler installed in my 59 100-6. Midas ran and ad showing an old guy
>> in a model T getting his muffler replaced with his lifetime muffler
>> warranty. I figured what the hell? I am going to own this car for a
>> lifetime. I still have it. They have replaced the muffler 4-5 times over
>> the decades. When I was driving down to Conclave I blew out the inside
>> baffles. So when I got home I calle dup the shop that had replaced the
>> mufffler before. They are now called Midas, no muffler and they did not
>> have a muffler guy anymore, nor did any shop withng 50 miles of my house.
>> The local shop got a new manager who was sure he could take care of me. I
>> showed un and he backed away from his offer. Today I got a buyout check for
>> my warranty. I paid $45 then they sent me $350.00 today. They put me
>> through 1.5 years of shit and I still had to hound them after I agreed to
>> be bought out three months ago.  Now I;ll have the headers I bought
>> installed and glass packs. Here in Oregon it's still rainy and very cold,
>> but I should be back on the road this spring.
>> Cheers967 MGB  [image: MG]
>>
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