The exhaust tips get hot enough at idle to melt 600F solder (found while building a garage exhaust system for winter testing). In actual flat-out driving, exhaust gasses from angled-up tips can melt your tail light lenses. Later straight-out tips are better in this regard. All the OEM red Ansa bands or decals say is, 'this car is not driven very hard or very often'....
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