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***See below for full resolution of this post, Nick and Steve from ARH made things right and most of it was outside of their control.



I went ahead and ordered the catback from Lethal Performance after one month of frustration in dealing with ARH direct. I will just install the damn things myself.

Long story short - I emailed ARH on June 15th asking if they do direct sales and installs. I am a local guy and I wanted to support a local company, and I felt that going direct would be a nice thing to do. I started this process in June because I knew I wanted to have my exhaust by the 4th of July and by the 11th of July, two weekends where I'd be meeting a ton of family and friends that are really into mustangs and cars in general. They told me no problem, they'd love to do a direct sale and install, and that they'd be able to get me in and out in an hour.

  • Week of June 15th goes by, they tell me they don't have room on the lifts for me. No problem, I tell them to call me next week. They promise they'll get it done the week of June 22nd.

  • Week of June 22nd, they tell me they "don't have the parts" do to the install. They say they will have the parts to do the install by June 29th and they promise they'll get me done the next week. No problem, I tell them to call me next week.

  • Week of June 29th starts, they tell me they still don't have parts. Middle of the week, they claim they have parts and tell me they can get it done towards the end of the week. Week ends, nothing, they claim they don't have time to fit me in. They promise me they'll get it done the next week. 4th of July goes by, pretty frustrated at this point. No problem, I tell them to call me next week.

  • This week starts, they tell that they are out of parts still even though the week before they told me they had parts but no time to do the install? I ask them to give me an honest assessment, are they going to do it this week or not. If not, I'm going to order online and do it myself because I need to have it this weekend. They promise me they will get it done either Friday or Saturday.
Fast forward to today, I'm going home this weekend with no exhaust because they claim they just don't have the time to squeeze me in for a one hour install. Really really frustrating. If I had known from day one that I would be jerked around, I would have ordered the exhaust online. Now I missed two important weekends where I really wanted to show off their exhaust.

I know they make great products, hell, I'm ordering the catback still from Lethal Performance, but it's really disappointing when a local company lets you down like that. I try my best to support local and small businesses, but sometimes they just make it way too difficult. This is really a review of my experience, not the product, and anyone ordering from a vendor should have no hesitation with the parts since they are top notch.
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Damn that blows. How does the company that makes the exhaust not have the parts for install??
Don't know for sure. Said they were waiting on mufflers. Maybe they do them in production runs and it was in between runs or something.
 

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I know they make great products, hell, I'm ordering the catback still from Lethal Performance, but it's really disappointing when a local company lets you down like that. I try my best to support local and small businesses, but sometimes they just make it way too difficult. This is really a review of my experience, not the product, and anyone ordering from a vendor should have no hesitation with the parts since they are top notch.
If it makes you feel any better, you might not have done much better ordering online - does Lethal actually stock the pure thunders? I ordered through Beefcake and he just orders through ARH and then ARH ships them out. I ordered some on June 15th and they just shipped today. Hopefully ARH is fully stocked now and yours will ship much faster than mine did.

Alternatively, it might be worth popping into ARH and seeing if they have any in as of today for you to buy direct.
 
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Does Lethal actually stock the pure thunders? I ordered through Beefcake and he just orders through ARH and then ARH ships them out. I ordered some on June 15th and they just shipped today. Hopefully ARH is fully stocked now and yours will ship much faster than mine did.

Alternatively, it might be worth popping into ARH and seeing if they have any in for you to buy direct.
zzz boy that would be a hell of a pisser
 

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You did better than me at least you got a response.
They never returned my emails, I always had to call them to follow up. It's like they didn't really want to be bothered. Sorry for wanting to buy your product?
 

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Weird. I sent two emails and both times I had responses literally within minutes. This evening being the second time.
 

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Steve and Nick both called me, I'll post a full follow up when I get home but they are good dudes and are gonna make it right.
 

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The ARH guys found the time to install a catback for me this morning. The car sounds great. The tone is very low and very smooth. It doesn't scream, but it sounds really really great in the low RPMs. If you are looking for a loud and aggressive exhaust, this is not for you. I personally was looking for a smooth exhaust, more like a 2v 4.6L sound or something like that, so I am very happy with the exhaust. Under heavy accelerator it breaks up a little bit and becomes less smooth, but it doesn't become obnoxious or raspy so it's a win in my book. The sweet spot is definitely when you are cruising around town. There is no drone whatsoever at an RPM range or any load. All you get is exhaust note.

Thanks to Nick and Steve for going out of their way to fix whatever issues I may have had. They are good guys, I just wasn't kept in the loop and I never really fully understood what issues they were having. Nick explained to me that their muffler supplier was really short changing them, so that was the explanation for the parts shortage.
 

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The ARH guys found the time to install a catback for me this morning. The car sounds great. The tone is very low and very smooth. It doesn't scream, but it sounds really really great in the low RPMs. If you are looking for a loud and aggressive exhaust, this is not for you. I personally was looking for a smooth exhaust, more like a 2v 4.6L sound or something like that, so I am very happy with the exhaust. Under heavy accelerator it breaks up a little bit and becomes less smooth, but it doesn't become obnoxious or raspy so it's a win in my book. The sweet spot is definitely when you are cruising around town. There is no drone whatsoever at an RPM range or any load. All you get is exhaust note.

Thanks to Nick and Steve for going out of their way to fix whatever issues I may have had. They are good guys, I just wasn't kept in the loop and I never really fully understood what issues they were having. Nick explained to me that their muffler supplier was really short changing them, so that was the explanation for the parts shortage.
Very happy to hear this. I am getting their full system (headers w/cats and hpipe) installed. I am hoping it won't be obnoxious - I know it is going to be louder than your setup, but hopefully not too crazy.
 

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Very happy to hear this. I am getting their full system (headers w/cats and hpipe) installed. I am hoping it won't be obnoxious - I know it is going to be louder than your setup, but hopefully not too crazy.
Looking forward to your review. I plan on going with that aswell when I get my 16.
 

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Very happy to hear this. I am getting their full system (headers w/cats and hpipe) installed. I am hoping it won't be obnoxious - I know it is going to be louder than your setup, but hopefully not too crazy.
I bet it will be pretty manageable
 
 








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