Disco 1 MOT failure - what are these mounts called?

Hi all,

My 97 300 tdi has just failed its MOT and will require some welding. The tester has marked the brackets in the pictures below but I cant find out what they are called to get the repairs arranged. Anyone know?

Thanks
Ben.

At the risk of sounding reckless, i cant exactly see what is wrong with the ones you have!


However, if they need to be renewed, for some defect that i cant observe, i would suggest that it would be easy enough just to cut some new ones out of 2mm sheet steel. Whoever does the welding could do that, or you could do it before hand and pass the part to the welder.

Again, im not sure what's wrong with the existing ones though.

Yeah! As said what is the failure written as. Can't see what's wrong from those pics

Tell your tester he needs to go to get his eyes tested !

Im sure it will be something on the "excessive corrosion within...." but its really not excessive corrosion at all.

Did it fail on other things too? I wonder if they were just looking for some work out of it....

There is so much variation between testers too. The last one i went to wanted to list everything that set my 20yr old disco apart from a brand new car.

List of advisories was crazy - repairs from years back were suddenly of "poor quality" even though they had been through loads of MOTs without comment since they were done.


I dont mind a safety check, but some testers really seem to only want to deal with 3yr old cars.

That is exactly what I thought when he showed me - they seem solid but I assume he has picked up on something I haven't. I will check the exact wording when I get home.
Those brackets are the only thing it failed on and I don't think it was a case of them trying to get work as they don't do repairs - he did give me the number of a welder though. I'm going to get a quote and see if it is worth saving. Its a shame because it is in great condition otherwise.

As above, cannot see anything obvious. Can you not give it a wire brush to show it in better detail.
Was it your normal MOT tester? someone you trust?
I would be tempted to get someone else to look at it in regard to passing an MOT. If after cleaning up I could not see anything.

Cheers

I will give it a good brush and a poke tonight and see how it looks. It was the garage I normally use but a different tester. He called me through and showed me around while it was on the ramp - if he was being picky I'm sure there are plenty of other things he could have failed it on.

Not only is he a NOB but I don't think he knows L/Rs ! That's just a SUPPORT brkt for the FLOOR ! PROPER BOILS MY P!SS !

Unfortunately, the MoT test is largely subjective and in the worst case can depend on whether or not the tester got his oats last night and there's little or nothing an owner can do about it.
Some testers will be particularly picky on suspension, others on steering and there are those such as some at main dealers who appear to take "orders" from the boss of the parts department.
The only recourse we, as owners have is to either find another test station or to visit a VOSA main test station.

Liverpool.90 said:

Those brackets are the only thing it failed on and I don't think it was a case of them trying to get work as they don't do repairs - he did give me the number of a welder though. I'm going to get a quote and see if it is worth saving. Its a shame because it is in great condition otherwise.

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Eh???

"the only thing it failed on"

"see if it is worth saving"

You what?

That makes it sound like your disco has gone through its mot with no failure points apart from one foolish bracket, and you are considering writing it off???

Ill tell you what - if it went through, with no work, and got nothing more than a fail on that bracket, it must be in great condition. Ill swap it for mine (with its 11 months mot!) tomorrow.

I always take mine to an MOT testing station that does nothing else but MOT tests. They have no incentive to fail a car 'looking for some work' and have always been fair.

As everyone has said above - I don't see the issue from the pics. Will be interested to know what he actually put as the failure.

Out of interest, how old was the tester? ( A young inexperienced one might not know enough - but the more mature guy should know a lot better !)

It looks in good order from what I can see, so your comment "see if it's worth saving" is pretty scary....

Not to be paranoid, BUT, I sometimes wonder if the older vehicles get advisories to "persuade" folk to get rid of them sooner.....

SWMBO's D1 got an advisory on a brake pipe being "corroded" ........ said corrosion was the remains of the factory underseal on the ORIGINAL pipe

brianconwy said:

I always take mine to an MOT testing station that does nothing else but MOT tests. They have no incentive to fail a car 'looking for some work' and have always been fair.

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+1 on this. And mine lets me use his spare 4 post lift for a few beer tokens

Looks pretty bloody knackered to me. It's a rot box. Not a lot wrong with support pad brackets tester is a tosser but look around them.

Clean them up and spray them with dinitrol?

Im with everyone , cant see what the problem is

Now NOW @wammers I bet that Disco you were tryin to sell a bit back was a LOT worse Than this one !

Magicgrotto said:

Now NOW @wammers I bet that Disco you were tryin to sell a bit back was a LOT worse Than this one !

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It was - I bought it