Q: Loud Exhaust

asked by on February 11, 2017

Hello i have a cadillac cts 2004 and it sounds like a race car. They said the owner before me had cut something for it to sound like this. But i want it to be quite what do i have to do.

My car has 140334 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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