cheap car or money pit?

[Mattcheese31]

well good and strange today
the good
fitted new discs went smooth apart from those stupid torx grub screws that i had fun with so then started on the exhaust.
i needed a center section and a rear box and bought a 2nd hand section that came with a back box that had a hole in it so bought a new back box.separated the old back box and fitted the center section that went on with no proplems.but when i came to fit my new back box its about 2 inches short of the rear bumper!
so thinking the shop had sold me the wrong back box i measured the old one and they are the same size!
so then i thought i had fitted the center part wrong but its a flange fitting so will only fit in one place
the only thing i can think off is the center section is to short maybe came of a early or later model than mine
any one else with any ideas?

it is off an older one than yours mate, but more importantly it is from my old car which didn't have the bumper cutout, i'm now assuming yours has the bumper cutout? . . . . . . . they come with or without on new and old ones . .