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    MOT today - place your bets now!

    Had to book the bloody thing in for an MOT today - forgot till last weekend that it's up next week and I need to be able to drive it to get things fixed so thought I'd get it done now so I still have a week to go on the old one! lol

    Things I think it will fail on:

    N/S/F wheel bearing
    dead sidelight warning light on the dash
    perhaps emissions if it's having a bad day lol
    perhaps headlight adjustment, seeing as I had to do them myself, against a wall, at half 9 last night...

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    Well, randomly, it's failed on excessive rust to the rear subframe mounting area (?) and 14% efficiency on the nearside handbrake LoL

    How easy are new handbrake cables to do? And rear calipers? I think I'll have a go myself at doing them if they're not too hard

    I'm still amazed it didn't fail on NSF wheel bearing - it's noisy as hell at the moment!

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    You're probably better off changin the discs & pads and maybe adjusting the handbrake cable to sort the brakes tbh

    As for the excessive rust issue, that either sounds like total bolox bein spouted by a garage or somethin serious to the point of scrapping the car

    I'd ask someone else on here about that as excessive rust on the rear subframe mounting area would suggest that your rear beam could drop off at any time. Just doesn't sound right to me imo

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    Rear subframe mounting is by the front of the footwells, no where near the rear beam, that would be rear beam mounting ;)

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    yeah just realised that after reading it again

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    where was your MOT done at????
    CLIO WILLIAMS 0215

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    Hanningfield Motors in, er, East Hanningfield LoL

    Was £40 and they seemed less like a Shit-fit type of chain garage that was going to screw me over...

    I'll jack it up at the weekend and poke around. From what he was saying it's possible to move the inner sill it's so badly gone?

    I'm not entirely sure where I'm looking though so will have to rely on what people have said above to guide me lol

    Unless anyone local and knowledgeable fancies popping over...?

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    [quote="white16valver"]Hanningfield Motors in, er, East Hanningfield LoL

    You must be somewhere local to me, I have used this garage for Mot's for the best part of 20years, and stuck with it when the 2 lads there took over a few years ago. Have never had any reason to doubt their word so I will be interested to hear if you find anything different.

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    I'm not that far from there

    Have you had any work done by them? Like welding? I'm getting quotes at the moment and am hoping it's not going to cost a fortune...

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    Never had anything major like that, had a big service done when I first got williams, cam belt, auxuilliary belt, alternator, water pump and engine service, cant remember exact cost but getting near £500.


 

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