I took Saskia for her first MOT since I've owned her yesterday and she
failed! Some of the things that she failed on seem somewhat suspect,
although I think she was having a bit of an off day, which rarely helps!
For a start she decided that the hazard warning flashers would not work
on that occasion, and they have been fine previously, and I have tested
them since, and guess what...they are fine!
One of the headlamps was aiming too low, I guess that this is easy enough
to fix myself?
One of the steering gaitors had split, I would imagine that a lot of the
time involed in replacing this would be that spent partly dissasembling
the steering rack, can anyone comment on how easy this would be to
replace?
There's a bit of a problem with the handbrake, I think it just needs
adjusting, which I told the garage to do beforehand, but they didn't...
Another point that she failed on was the wiper blades, there is a gap in
the middle of the screen that they don't wipe, although I am sure that I
have the correct size blades and wiper arms. Is this normal on a spit?
They claim that both of the front seats are insecure, they are both
bolted down fine, but just wobble a little, but then this is inherant in
the design seeing that they are only secured at the rear in one place. I
can't see how this particular aspect could be improved. Anyone else had
this problem?
And the final one is excess exhaust emissions. I think this is due to a
number of things. Firstly one of the bolts securing the inlet manifold
is threaded so that needs replacing, is this easy or hard to do, other
than the obvious problems of gaining access to below the manifold? Also
the points are burnt out and I have a misfire, I think these two may be
linked? What else could cause my misfire? The emissions results were:
Co 5.26%, that passed, it was the Hydrocarbons that failed with 1464.
There was also low compression on No2 cylinder, although I forgot to ask
for the actual results.
So quite a few things failed there! Although only the emmisions one
seems like it could be particularly troublesome, or have I missed
something in my assumptions above?
Any help you can give me to get Saskia through her next MOT would be very
much appreciated!
cheers all,
John
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