Is £190 a fair price for a whole new exhaust, including a more expensive chrome bit on the end?

[lazybloke]

I think this is the first exhaust I've bought since my 2nd, 3rd, 4th hand rust bucket, British Leyland car owner days. To be fair I haven't owned a car long enough in the last 20 or so years to say the exhaust has lasted a fair time, but this is the first exhaust I've had to replace in must be 40 years. I do remember those British Leyland car ownership days and having to replace exhausts quite often, but then as we know everything apart from the engine, soon disintegrated on BL cars!

I was thinking Leyland cars too. I stopped buying outdated British cars in the early to mid 90s, and haven't needed to buy an exhaust since.
I had the notion they were all stainless now, and would hopefully last forever; but they do operate in a harsh environment!

 

[Fastpedaller]

Presta mentioning exhausts for a Cortina served as a reminder to a story related by a work colleague many years ago..... He bought a replacement exhaust for his Cortina from Kwikfit, and the exhaust had a guarantee (1 or 2 years, I can't remember). He would go to Kwikfit about a month before the guarantee expired. He'd say to them "I think there might be something wrong with my exhaust, can you check it?" Ever eager for a sale, they would look it over and say "yes sir, it needs replacing" at which point he would produce his guarantee documents and get yet another free exhaust . This continued until they said " We don't have a supply of replacement for that exhaust"