[Silent_H_]

I'm posting this here instead of in the V6-specific forum as I think it's probably pretty universal.

My car recently started making a loud rattle near 3k and 5k rpms. None of the heat shields on the exhaust were making noise when I got under there, so I took it to the dealer.

They said that the welds on a pipe in the resonator are coming loose, and quoted me ~$4000 to replace the entire exhaust from the cats back.

That seems a bit steep to me, so I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue, and what you did to solve it. Can an exhaust shop try to fix the broken weld? Can they cut out the resonator and replace it with an x-pipe or something?

I really like the sound of the factory exhaust, and don't want anything that drones. I did look into 3rd party ones, but for the V6 I could only find axle-back, so they wouldn't solve my problem.

Thanks!