Nearside front upper suspension arm has excessive play in ball joint
Offside front upper suspension arm has excessive play in ball joint
Nearside anti roll bar linkage has excessive play in ball joint
Offside anti roll bar linkage has excessive play in ball joint
Nearside front brake pads less than 1.5mm thick
Offside front brake pads less than 1.5mm thick
Worn out discs
Front Brakes Inbalanced
Nearside Front driveshaft gater split.
But on the plus side, it passed emissions!
Oil Temp 61
Opacity zero drift 0.02m-1
Average Opacity 0.83m-1
The barge?
Yeah, this is in the Delica :(
f**king hell i thought the things my car failed on back in May were bad, first MOT attempt on mine i had to have my brake pipes replaced, new brushes for the engine i think they were, new headlight bulb as apparently when it got MOTd last 2 years ago it had the wrong bulb fitted :hunf:, new wiper blades and a couple of other small things and it all came to £245 including labour! :shock: I suppose this was all due to the car being sitting there for like 8 months before i got round to putting it back on the road again in May when i passed my test, How much is all that work going to cost you soopahfly if you decide to have the repairs done?
Liam
Im looking at 200 beans for the parts, not including postage or labour.
you should have spotted all them before you brought it!
The noise it must make over bumps would be pretty bad too id imagine
Hard to hear over the sound of metal on metal.
it least its all in the same places. Get it up on some stands, get the bits off, get the them cleaned and replaced. Couple of days leisurely work.
How much of it can you do yourself?
Dont think theres anything on the list Id be unwilling to at least attempt myself.
I feel for you, but atleast you could do the disks and pads maybe?
My car has failed on a lot more before and, thanks to help from Knighty, it cost me much less to get through my MOT.
yeah, thats all easy stuff.... ball jointes etc.. can be a PITA sometimes... but its easier / less hastle then having to weld it up :)
None of it I can do myself.
Since moving out into the new flat, I no longer have access to my dads tools.
socket set, couple of spanners, balljoint splitter, tyre lever to pry the balljoint out with and a couple of axle stands.
= same cost as someone else doing it.
But then next year you can do it all again with minimal outlay. The wisest investment I have ever made has been spending some money on decent tools. Also worth bearing in mind that begging/borrowing/stealing someone elses gash tools can be useful.
The parts in there have lasted 14 years so far, bar the brakes.
I dont expect to be doing much of it again next year tbh, this is a rough and tough 4x4.
Quote from: soopahflyThe parts in there have lasted 14 years so far, bar the brakes.
I dont expect to be doing much of it again next year tbh, this is a rough and tough 4x4.
If its any consolation, my old L-Reg L200 from work is still being used. It was at 185k before I left 3 years back. I believe its well into the 200k range now. All I had done to it in 3 yeas was a new power steering pump, and a new handbrake cable.
Ive got a big file of receipts for the truck. It only has 85k, was imported at 65km.
My big Volvo had 268K on the clock on the same engine. Dont know about the rest of the parts. Now that was a tough but randomly crap car at the same time.
Quote from: soopahflyIve got a big file of receipts for the truck. It only has 85k, was imported at 65km.
Mitzis are pretty bulletproof TBH. Like I said, that old L200 was still ticking along nicely, and still is.
Quote from: BeakerQuote from: soopahflyIve got a big file of receipts for the truck. It only has 85k, was imported at 65km.
Mitzis are pretty bulletproof TBH. Like I said, that old L200 was still ticking along nicely, and still is.
Not like Tatas, they are a POS! my dad was driving one home one day a few years ago, the cops pulled him over as they noticed somthing dogdy about the pickup.
The guy looked it over and sent my dad on the way, seemingly not wanting the paperwork that went along with the pull over.
still, must have been REALLY bad if it failed the english MOT
Front arms were probably literally hanging off.
Quote from: Markstill, must have been REALLY bad if it failed the english MOT
Front arms were probably literally hanging off.
Heh, Mate just picked up a car from Northern Ireland, a 3-pot Corsa. Its the worst POS ive seen in my life. The Isle-Of-Man cars Ive rented in the past have been in better nick. Sounds to me like you live in is tight, but around where it came from (Bangor) they are just as bad as you think the mainland UK is.
All MOT centres do the same test - standard equipment.
Must have been either long out of its MOT and badly looked after, or had a fake MOT
A lot of people are buying MOTs here from dodgy english garages when they cant get their car thorugh the MOT here. Pretty common practice that still isnt being tightened up on.
Quote from: MarkAll MOT centres do the same test - standard equipment.
Must have been either long out of its MOT and badly looked after, or had a fake MOT
A lot of people are buying MOTs here from dodgy english garages when they cant get their car thorugh the MOT here. Pretty common practice that still isnt being tightened up on.
*shrug* its not due an MOT until next year. He got for his Wife. At the moment its sat on his drive with the back axle off and Im helping him melt some of the bushes off it on Monday morning.
Its not like a "Max Power" garage where they are looking at the pirelli calendar playing with themselves while doing the MOT.