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[mel b3]

I've just remembered another one . I had failed a car due to a very large hole on the outer sill , the guy returned a few days later with the sill repaired , when I had a close look at the repair , the guy had made a cracking job of fabricating a piece of sill , he'd then glued it on ,and put a line of filler around the joint , and sculpted the filler to look like a perfect run  of weld all around the patch 😅😅😅,  I only looked so closely as I'd never seen such perfect welding 😅😅😅, he played up something awful when it failed again , and was adamant that his repair was as good as welding 😅😅😅.

[bluesj]

One of the girls where I worked bought a ford ka from a very dodgy dealer, a couple of days later the exhaust fell off so I got it up on the ramp and found as well as the exhaust being held up with cable ties the whole near side sill had been fashioned out of expanding foam and underseal and it had a nice new mot on it! The dealer wasn't happy when we rang and told him to come and collect the car and to bring a refund with him 

[oowee]

I remember doing a sill on a viva 2.3 magnum with cement and covered with tin from a tin of GTX. 🤔

Quick car at the time. 

[bluesj]

Just now, oowee said:

I remember doing a sill on a viva 2.3 magnum with cement and covered with tin from a tin of GTX. 🤔

Quick car at the time. 

I had a 2.3 firenza that had very similar repairs do to it  😨

[paul1966]

took my cmax for its mot on monday and it failed due to a hole in the outer cv boot, a bit miffed that it failed as i inspected the boots when i serviced the car a month before, the damage must have happened between then. its booked into a local garage as i can't be bothered to do it, should only take an hour i would have thought so £45 + parts

[scutt]

Best bodge repair worn track rod end came back with bike innertube cut into elastic bands and rapped round the track rod got to admit it took up all the play  😊

[defender]

I saw a car brought in for mot with no inner brake pads at both sides at the front, just piston onto disc.

Edited August 7, 2019 by defender

[Vince Green]

I think an MOT is a very cheap easy way of having my car checked over.

Some of the Eastern Europeans I work with drive cars that are death traps. Why risk your family in something like that? 

[London Best]

Don’t forget, they risk YOUR family too. You don’t have to be in the ropy car.

Edited August 8, 2019 by London Best

[wymberley]

What did you do with what is now the spare? Am I not right in thinking that if a defective tyre, albeit the spare, is actually with the vehicle, then it will fail:-

"We would always try to be fair with customers , as most of them had been regulars for years, if a car failed on a tyre ,we would just put the spare on"

[mel b3]

56 minutes ago, wymberley said:

What did you do with what is now the spare? Am I not right in thinking that if a defective tyre, albeit the spare, is actually with the vehicle, then it will fail:-

"We would always try to be fair with customers , as most of them had been regulars for years, if a car failed on a tyre ,we would just put the spare on"

we would just put the failed wheel and tyre into the boot , and notify the customer . back in those days , the spare wheel and tyre wasnt part of the mot test , so was irrelevant , i havent got a clue about the mot test these days to be honest.