The car has just failed its MOT.

Its failed on

1. Headlamp beam being too low

2. Offside rear tie bar/rod has excessive play in pin/bush

3. All underside metal brake pipes excessively corroded

4. a tyre which i have replacements

5. Indicators on the front which is easy to change

6. Front windscreen washer dont work

7. Offside outer front sill body has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (needs welding)

:shock: :cry: :slap:

 

Anyone help me with this or know where i can get parts needed for cheap.

 

If you can help then please let me know asap as need MOT sorting out.

 

Thanks

Bird

Hi fella,

I wish I had some sort of plan or positive advice for you but the way I look at it is you're gonna need all this work doing for the MOT and a new engine and you and at the end of it your still gonna have a car in a colour you dont like! If you add up what it's all gonna cost with a decent respray your looking at a lot of ££££'s. If it was me I'd get rid of it mate, count my losses and start saving for something else.

80% of the brake pipes are clearly visible from just in front of the rear drivers wheel up to the abs and across to the passengerside......if more than one of these is badly corroded then I fail to see why the tester should list them individually

 

 

:nono: technically the pipes are individual and so should be listed individually, its for the benefit of the vehicle presenter so that they know exactly which pipes to replace,also a tester can only issue a reason for rejection when he is sure that the defect meets with the failure criteria, if unsure he should advise on the defect and leave it up to the customer. If a tester cant see something he cant just decide to fail the car just because the pipe might be corroded.

 

the 80% of the pipes you are on about can be seen (just) but unless your tombs from the X files there aint anyway you can properly asses them and by that i meen using the correct corrosion assesment tool and not a two foot long chisel.

 

What i was originally getting at is all to often a tester on seeing one or two pipes corroded will state that all the pipes are corroded because it is easier to do so than list those that really need replacing.

 

On the other hand my car failed last year on two rear brake pipes, as I stated i decided to do them all, I quickly found out that most of the pipes were total knackered one of the just broke away when I went to remove it. these pipes were corroded in places that was impossible to see, Id advise anyone who hasnt changed the brake pipes on their UK Z to do it, probably the imports as well if they have been over here a few years, fast cars and no brakes dont mix

Ossian is totaly correct lost count of the amount of times ive seen a car failed the test incorrectly and brake pipes are one of the regular ones.