Thanks for the replies guys, sorry to take so long getting back, been working solid. re the abs light enigma, you're all dead right 'bout my initial 7mph mistake. My only worry is that the handbook says that the abs light should illuminate for about a second when the ignition is turned to position 2 before briefly extinguishing and then coming on again to extinguish when 5mph/7kph is reached. (Deep Breath). I've had the truck for over 2 years now and since I've had it the light goes out at 5mph but has never done the initial switching on/off/on thing. I'm pretty sure the abs works cos I've had to brake hard on ice and its hard to miss when it activates. Do I have (an abs) problem? I spent an evening welding the inner sills up....strange how they are holed at the front when the inside of the outer panel could clearly be seen through the holes and looked totally mint. The brake pipes are ok on inspection . There was some flaky paint and minor surface rust on the section about midway back on the section where both take an (approximate 45 degree) kink inboard for a couple of inches over a chassis section. Got a second opinion and have cleaned and greased offending section.. This doesn't surprise me when one of the large list of failures was a scored/damaged windscreen that has turned out to be the guts of a particularly stubborn insect distributed by the wiper blade. This was rectified by spitting on mk1 finger and rubbing vigorously. All in all, a bit of a shame cos I took the car to that location because the guy who tested it last year was hard but fair in fact when he jumped in to take it onto the ramps, the first thing he said was 'Abs lights on' I replied that it would switch of at 7(5)mph to which he replied 'Oh yeah, so it has'. He never mentioned it again. It is well to make sure that although you trust a premises, make sure there is consistency with the tester as in my case they obviously replaced 'mister hard but fair' with an utter twonk.
