It finally paid off!

mrnice · Mar 6, 2012

Well after about 7 months off the road with me underneath her outside my house in the freezing cold/rain she finally went in for her MOT yesterday - and passed!

2 advisories:

1: Whole underneath of vehicle covered with underseal unable to give full examination.

2:rear brake pipe painted unable to give full examination.

To be honest im chuffed she went through but a little gutted about the advisories after all the hard work ive put in.

The truth is I live next to the sea so undersealing/waxoyling is very important to me and ive just spent ages getting everything as perfect as I could (LOTS of welding!) so I wasnt trying to hide anything and the brake pipes were renewed last year by the testers dad so were perfect and I had painted them the day they were fitted with red oxide to stop them rusting.

After all my hard work I would have loved to say "she flew through, without as much as an advisory"

Still nevermind at least I can get up the mountains again at the weekend and get muddy woohoo!

Its been a long time coming

xat44 · Mar 6, 2012

congratulations

. mine too went through its mot the other day after a bit of chassis welding. the first time i`d ever welded apart from practicing on scraps. i did put quite a lot of underseal on the welded plate and to be honest it was to hide some of the welding. only because it was`nt pretty.

JonnyP · Mar 6, 2012

Nice one.. Well done chap

I am still waiting for the day to put mine in for a re test.

Dales · Mar 6, 2012

I find when you go for the m.o.t even though you know it should pass, you start thinking what if,

Then you see the examiner at one part of your vehicle for what seems ages and you think he has found something,

But no matter what, its always a great feeling when it passes.

Well done on the pass though, sounds like you put a fair bit of work into it,

GreenHornet · Mar 6, 2012

Man I know how you feel. Elation at all your hard work and pride that it was something that YOU did.

Well done, now it's time to enjoy!

mrnice · Mar 7, 2012

cheers fellas, now ive only got to sort out the dodgy starter, immobiliser problem, squeek from ns front wheel, intermittent foglight problem, leaking front sunroof, intermittent ABS problem, rear washer, rear sunroof mechanism, saggy roof liner, LPG fuel level indicator and source a new actuator, drivers seat stitching, split rear window seals blah blah blah :blah:.......

... and the list goes on, and on, im sure this thing can break faster than I can fix it.

Still, I'll give it a bloody good go!

discomania · Mar 7, 2012

mrnice said:
Well after about 7 months off the road with me underneath her outside my house in the freezing cold/rain she finally went in for her MOT yesterday - and passed!

2 advisories:

1: Whole underneath of vehicle covered with underseal unable to give full examination.

2:rear brake pipe painted unable to give full examination.

To be honest im chuffed she went through but a little gutted about the advisories after all the hard work ive put in.

The truth is I live next to the sea so undersealing/waxoyling is very important to me and ive just spent ages getting everything as perfect as I could (LOTS of welding!) so I wasnt trying to hide anything and the brake pipes were renewed last year by the testers dad so were perfect and I had painted them the day they were fitted with red oxide to stop them rusting.

After all my hard work I would have loved to say "she flew through, without as much as an advisory"

Still nevermind at least I can get up the mountains again at the weekend and get muddy woohoo!

Its been a long time coming

She did in my eyes, they are not real advisories! I mean, they are both stupid things really, they can tap the chassis and underside of the body through paint and underseal and tell if it's good metal or not. If the lines were badly corroded under the paint it would be obvious.

They didn't send you away with a fail, which you then repaired then they can ask you to leave welding exposed for checks.

So if you had taken it in with no seal, it passed, then you took it home and painted it all up, would that then be an advisory next year? If that was the case then they would just have to make undersealing a fail!

Dales · Mar 7, 2012

My mates auld mk 1 Mondeo had an advisory on under seal as well last year, will be interesting to see if it gets the same this year.

As discomania said.

They can give it a tap to see how the metal sounds,

Iv heard of a few folk in the past putting cataloy underneath and slapping on **** loads of underseal, but surly you can tell a mile away with the sound when you tap it

It finally paid off!

mrnice

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