Leaks, broken hangers, cracked flanges and rotted sections welded rather than sold as a full system, about twenty minutes from Parma.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
Parma is the largest suburb in Cuyahoga County and it is a twenty minute drive from the shop, so it is worth being honest about why anybody makes that trip. It is not for something a chain muffler shop can do. Parma has no shortage of those. It is for the jobs where the answer everywhere else was a quote for the entire system.
The housing tells you why there is so much exhaust work. Parma was built in a single enormous wave through the 1950s and 1960s, bungalows and ranches on Ridge, State, Broadview and Snow, and it has stayed a place where households keep vehicles a long time. An eight to fifteen year old car in Ohio is an exhaust repair waiting to happen, because salt attacks thin wall tubing and hangers long before it touches anything structural.
A hanger rusts off, the system sags, and the weight starts going through the joints instead of the hangers. That is a weld and a bracket. It gets quoted as a rear section.
A flex pipe splits along the braid, usually after the engine mounts have worn. That is a section. It gets quoted as a full system on a lot of vehicles.
A flange cracks at the converter and you get ticking on a cold start. That is a weld and a gasket. Left alone it erodes the sealing face and becomes a genuine converter job.
A muffler seam rots from inside, because condensation sits in the low point every time the car is driven a short distance and shut off. Sometimes that is a weld, sometimes the body really is gone, and you get told which.
For a straightforward muffler swap on a current model where the part is cheap and available, probably not, and we will say so on the phone rather than have you drive across the county.
For anything where you have been quoted a full system, it usually is. The difference between welding the section that failed and replacing everything from the manifold back is normally large enough to cover the trip several times over.
For an older vehicle where no stock system is made any more, it definitely is. That becomes a fabrication job and there are not many shops still doing it.
Send a photo first. Most quotes come back the same day the shop is open, so you can decide before you drive.
The exhaust below came in from a Parma customer. The failed section was welded and refitted rather than the system being replaced.
“Rashad put a muffler on my car. He was very professional, explain the problem and replace the muffler in a very timely manner. I would recommend Acr Wheels Welding to all my friends.”
Muffler repair and exhaust repair is the work Parma sends most, but the whole shop is available to you. Shop work at 12212 Corlett Ave, plus mobile welding when the thing that broke cannot travel.
The shop is at 12212 Corlett Ave, Cleveland, OH 44105, about 7.4 miles and about 20 minutes from Parma. Take I-480 west to State Road, or Broadway to Harvard and across. Free customer parking on site. Open Monday to Friday, 1pm to 8pm, closed weekends.
For a routine muffler on a late model car, probably not, and we will tell you that on the phone. For anything quoted as a full system replacement, or for an older vehicle where no system is manufactured any more, yes. Send a photo to 216.309.1567 and decide before you drive.
About 7.4 miles and roughly twenty minutes, either I-480 west to State Road or across on Harvard. The shop is at 12212 Corlett Ave, Cleveland, OH 44105.
Almost always. Exhaust systems fail at joints, flanges and hangers, and all three are welds. Replacing an entire system because one flange failed is a parts sale rather than a repair.
Most exhaust repair goes out the same day the shop is open, which is Monday to Friday, 1pm to 8pm. You get a timeframe with the quote rather than after we have your car.
Most quotes come back the same day the shop is open. Free, no obligation, and if it cannot be repaired you will hear that straight.
