MOT Fail again

[Wobba]

Horn wont work (thanks for fixing like I asked you assholes!)
One handbrake cable frayed
Rear tyres over the tread limit
Mid section exhaust mount (there isn't one)
Twisted nearside brake hose (Goodridge)
Rear offside arch corrosion requiring welding (had it welded last year for MOT, same place)

I have absolutely no time off work as usual and have to go to APD in Wales with the car on Saturday and MOT has just expired.

So. have to spend hours working out why the horn wont work, replace and redo the handbrake cables, get new tyres ordered and fitted, somehow get an exhaust hanger for the mid section of my exhaust, replace/refit brake hose and refill/bleed brake system and then send it off for welding again. Before Saturday. Evenings only, in the dark, freezing my nuts off.

Not gonna happen. ****ing shit.

[MatBrown]

Would you really want to have paid them £50 to fix a horn on a car that still didn't pass?
Surely you can scrounge a couple of wheels with good tyres off someone local?
Which bit of the exhaust mount is missing, if its the bit on the car i've got one available, if its the bit on the exhaust just remove the one on the car, and if its just a rubber - easy fix.
Brake hose might just be twisted from putting the caliper back on.
I would question the fact they welded the same spot last year, obv didn't do a very good job.

Personally it sounds like you need to find a new garage.


Mat.

[LEIGH-ANNE]

ring me about this

[schakal]

and me , hurry up

[Justin..]

You can borrow my wheels if you want again Dan.

[col]

If you need to go to Wales why dont you go an rent a wreck?

[Wobba]

Would you really want to have paid them £50 to fix a horn on a car that still didn't pass?
Surely you can scrounge a couple of wheels with good tyres off someone local?
Which bit of the exhaust mount is missing, if its the bit on the car i've got one available, if its the bit on the exhaust just remove the one on the car, and if its just a rubber - easy fix.
Brake hose might just be twisted from putting the caliper back on.
I would question the fact they welded the same spot last year, obv didn't do a very good job.

Personally it sounds like you need to find a new garage.


Mat.

You are right Mat as usual.

I got to the garage and spoke to the guy there, he said it was not as bad as it sounded.

He said it was not the mid section mount thank God (as I took the car hanger off), it was just the rubbers and he said they just popped those back on anyway, but one is fairly perished.

He also agreed with you and suggested the brake hose was just twisted from me being a thick twat and twisting the caliper when I put it back on.

Good idea with the wheels, Justin...PLEASE HELP ME!!!! :D

The horn...I am going to desperately try and get Friday off work to have a go at the horn and replace/rewire anything that's shagged.

Never done a handbrake cable. Seem to remember the main thing is getting all the crap off that covers it I'll do a Haynes...I imagine the part is easy to get hold of.

They didn't do the welding last year, the weld has held but the corrosion has come past the previous weld and left holes either side. They have offered to put a much longer plate there as a temporary measure till I replace the sill later in the year.

Not as bad as I thought but still a pain!

I'll be in touch Justin mate.

[Coops]

sorry to hear this mate, hope you dont get to disheartened, it is a 16 year old french car and its not a bad fail list really

main thing is the welding and as mat says, i'd be questioning the garage about it if they welded it a year ago and its failed again, shoddy work

[MatBrown]

At least you seem a little more calm and level headed now.
Good luck.


Mat.

[Wobba]

If you need to go to Wales why dont you go an rent a wreck?

Hehe, yea...I have to take the Williams though.