It's a tough call - many aftermarket headers hang down a lot lower than stock headers do and people scrape these aftermarket headers on things. It's a give and take in those situations as the aftermarket performance parts are usually a lot bigger in diameter than stock parts.

It's true that this model of Buddy club exhaust does hang down lower than the stock item but it makes more power and it's a lot lighter than the stock part too.

If you did scrape this exhaust for a good part of a year then by all means it will get damaged. Whether or not the damage caused by scraping is covered under warranty is what I am looking into right now. If it was a manufacturing defect, there would be no questions in a replacement, but this is the way this exhaust has been designed (you could argue it's not a great design, that is another story).

It's clear with a rim, that if you were to scrape it on a gutter, that warranty would not replace your rim. The same could be applied to this exhaust, in that if you were to scrape it on driveways and speed humps, then you are damaging the exhaust yourself and thus it wouldn't be replaced under warranty.

ROLLED: I'll talk to the Buddy club team and do the best I can to offer you some sort of resolution, as you're obviously not happy. Thanks for the PM. I have your number and will call you with more news ASAP.