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amigafan2003
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Y reg in for MOT today
« on: Nov 30th, 2012, 12:45pm » |
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Wish me luck!
Think it might need a patch welding on the rear of the drivers side sill and one washer jet blocked this week (passenger) - cleaning it with a pin didn't make a difference so I've split the drivers side jet so one stream does one side and the other stream the other side - wonder if it will suffice? 
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Re: Y reg in for MOT today
« Reply #1 on: Nov 30th, 2012, 11:29pm » |
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Ok, failed with:-
Rear of both sills need welding.
Rear chassis rail
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wait for it
Offside ball joint (i.e. wishbone).
Fully expecting a call tomorrow from them saying "erm, we can't get the wishbone".
Oh well, onwards and upwards. Guy at work asked if I was going to scrap it. He doesn't understand obviously 
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PJDavis
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Re: Y reg in for MOT today
« Reply #3 on: Dec 1st, 2012, 8:05am » |
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I have a wishbone that would pass an MOT. In fact it did about six weeks before I replaced them both. Although the car was a lot better for the wishbones being renewed. But I think that was because of the bushes rather than the ball-joint. Both ball-joints were ok. I've still to experiment removing the ball-joint and looking for a replacement, I'll only need one for that. Anyways, it's there for price of postage if you want it, no guarantees, you could always put your bushes on my good ball-joint.
Peter
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Re: Y reg in for MOT today
« Reply #4 on: Dec 1st, 2012, 1:39pm » |
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He's found one for the bargain price of £75 (and yes - it is a Scorpio one and not a Granada one).
Welding being done today, wishbone fitted Monday (I'd have done it myself but it's pretty nippy out there - really must get it re-mot'd in the summer!).
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Re: Y reg in for MOT today
« Reply #5 on: Dec 5th, 2012, 9:42am » |
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Yay - all done.
Chassis rail welded
Both sills wellded (from B pillar to rear - quite a lot of welding)
OSF wishbone supplied and fitted
Under floorpan rigid brake lines showing signs of corrosion - cleaned and greased
£370 all in inc MOT fee - not to bad - was expecting worse!
I'm going to get two new sills put on it in the summer.
Got the old wishbone back to I can play with the ball joint 
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Re: Y reg in for MOT today
« Reply #6 on: Dec 5th, 2012, 9:55pm » |
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Well Done. I did exactly what you say you should and changed my MOT to July by shorting it by six months about two years ago. Best thing I did. You should get your sills fitted and then take it back to the same garage in July for a re-test and get your 12 months from then.
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Re: Y reg in for MOT today
« Reply #7 on: Dec 6th, 2012, 10:37am » |
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on Dec 5th, 2012, 9:55pm, PJDavis wrote:| Well Done. I did exactly what you say you should and changed my MOT to July by shorting it by six months about two years ago. Best thing I did. You should get your sills fitted and then take it back to the same garage in July for a re-test and get your 12 months from then. |
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Yeah - that's exactly what I'm going to do. Meant to do it this summer but had to sort out a wiring issue on the Westfield instead.
Smiled when I saw the MOT mileage reading - 94500 in 2010, 98500 in 2011 and 100800 just now - only 2300 miles in a year - the electric bike is working wonders
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