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IMHO walkers are crraap and the quality is downright terrible.
If you are to compare with factory Toys, Mazdas or Hondas which are typically made with 16gauge or 18 gauge steel, typical Maremont or Walker are made with 24 gauge steel sheets rolled into form, even though they are aluminised, they still cannot hold the rust very well and typically will rust out in no more than 3 years max.
But from what Ive seen, the Honda part is very much crrap too, depite having a honda name on it. ThirdYe has more or less confirmed it.
The thing is, on our 94 toyota, and our 94 mitsubishi, not to mention our 83, 85, and 96 MB, 91 BMW, and 97 plymouth, all original exhaust parts are still present after 110-250k miles on each of them, except for the resonator on the 83 car. Why should this honda part fail multiple times under the same conditons??? I have come to excpect long life from modern exhaust systems. From our cheaper cars in the early to mid 1980s? not so much, and I remember going with my father to the shop to have parts replaced from time to time. Even our 89 corolla had a muffler that went after 3 or so years, but these problems seem to have been all but solved for at least our area, where a lot of salt and cinders are indeed used in the wintertime.
So, all that said, I have to wonder if the walkers that you are talking about are the low end ones, or the OE-equivalent ones. Per one of the first replies, there is a difference... Id buy the OE-equivalent one.
I dont mind buying OE parts, and in fact, unless Ive seen a documented difference or improvement over them for some application, I always do buy them. However, for a lot of Honda parts, it is becoming "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" type scenario.
I appreciate the insight very much!
JMH
