Exhaust Rubber Mounting Bracket - Replacing

[Spark65]

Looking for urgent help:

 

Noticed that the exhaust seemed low at the rear of my daughters c3. On inspection, under the rear of the car, I noticed that the rubber mounting bracket seems to have perished away from the body. I can't really see any fixings, such as bolts, which has stumped me!  I am looking for as much info, diagrams would be great, on how to fix the problem asap?

 

To confirm, it is the rubber bracket that mounts the exhaust just before the back box. The exhaust system looks mint btw.

 

Thanks

[Johndouglas]

Look closley at your rear box.   Somewhere on the top side of it there will be a bent rod and above it there will be a similar rod welded to the bodywork of the car. A rubber moulding joins the two rods and allows the box to move slightly. I usually keep a couple of these handy and I find they fit all my vehicles.

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[Spark65]

Thanks for your reply John and I will look tomorrow, if it stops raining!!

 

Must say though, I really can't recall see anything like this. What I did see was a rubber casing around the Exhaust pipe. This appears to have once being attached to a similar shaped moulding attached to vehicle chasis; hence my belief that this had deteriorated and come apart. Fingers crossed I can see some Rod's as you say. If it helps, its a 53 plate 1.4 petrol

[paul.h]

You can see the Citroen parts diagrams as a free service on the service.citroen website - register as an other professional, member of the Citroen Owners Club. There are 3 rubber mountings which all look similar except on the middle one the metal bracket fastening it to the car floor has the 2 bolt holes off set. On our 2003 C3, the rubber part has 2 sections held together by a strap so maybe it is the strap that has snapped in your case - compare it to the other 2 mountings. The Citroen ones seem long lasting (10 years already on ours) so I would not bother with aftermarket replacement ones.

 

- 1 at the rear box which is a metal strap wrapped around the box, which if still the original exhaust likely will have corroded through. This has a bar that goes through a rubber mounting bolted under the car with 2 nuts. Aftermarket exhausts have the bar welded to the rear box.

- 2 just in front of the rear box. This has a bar welded to the pipe and again goes through a rubber mounting bolted to the car.

- 3 behind the front box. Again has a bar welded to the pipe and a rubber mounting bolted to the car.