MOT

[keatsie]

She passed, another year of blasting in the old girl..

Odd thing tho, on the way back she tried to conk out on me which was rather alarming... Hopes its just some water disturbing the electrics..

Anyway, big smiles

[marcus1875]

well done. just dropped mine of at the garage, MOT tomorrow. Spent the last hour trying to get the pods to work. Typically they worked fine until this morning when only one rose. They are both up manually now and disconnected. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.
marcus

[keatsie]

Hope it all goes well..

[mrzigazaga]

...Enjoy...
Good luck marcus..i might have to pop mine up and take the relay out for my MOT next month..Although my pods have worked everytime ive tried them..But sods law they will not work on the day...Ziga

[marcus1875]

Fail

Not got the fai certificate yet, pick it up tomorrow so will get the details then.
Although he did say the he knew of a more lenient garage i could try.
Gutted.

Marcus

[mrzigazaga]

Hi Marcus..Sorry to hear that..Ziga

[Rockettvr]

I'm getting a bit nervous as mines due next week. Need to give the old girl a once over this weekend just to make sure there's nothing obvious that needs doing

[Mr Tank]

marcus1875 said:

Fail

Although he did say the he knew of a more lenient garage i could try.
Gutted.

Marcus

Hi Marcus

I will be interesting to hear what it failed on, especially when you get the above comments?

Andy

[keatsie]

Sorry to hear that.

Good question, why lenient. Like tank I would be interested to know why it failed.

[marcus1875]

Spoke to the garage, failed on the headlamp pods being unsecure, which i thought would fail, and the headlamp beams were way out of alignment, again i knew this. But also a suspension part had been "badly repaired with a weld", not noticed anything like this on the suspension and I've been under that car more times than i care to mention!
Also he failed the seats, it has lightweight bucket seats for hill climbs / speed trials fitted which I'm told are death traps as the back support isn't fixed.
Going to pick it up tomorrow, he said he will put it up on the ramp and then go through the advisorys with me.
I knew about the lamps and he would have realigned and secured probably if the rest had been OK. Surprised about the seats though, and interested to see this weld on the suspension, I'll kick myself if it is obvious and I have missed it. Not looking forward to the list of advisorys either.
Marcus

[mrzigazaga]

Hi Marcus...I would of thought that the seat's would of been approved if they are for hillcliming and speed trials..You are more likely to come a cropper doing either one of them then driving on a normal road?..If the suspension mount area has had a bad repair then thats understandable..Weird that he should say about a more lenient garage..Either its not as bad as he is saying or he knows of garages that will pass potential death trap's..Scary...Hope you get it sorted mate...Ziga

[keatsie]

Apparently there have been changes to the mot checks

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=112...

[mrzigazaga]

Sounds like this government is trying to force communism on the working class and capitalism on the rest...S.O.B......Ziga

[marcus1875]

Didnt know that about the MOTs. Mine is prepd for hillclimbs etc so I'll expect the advisorys will be regarding that. Of to collect it now. will report back in a couple of hours.
marcus

[marcus1875]

This is the offending weld on the rear nearside suspension. It does look pretty poor tbh. As the tester said it looks like cowboy job.
so i need to get it repaired or get a new piece. any recommendations? TBH i dont even know what i would call that bit! Suppose it would be of a jag?
Surprisingly no advisorys, just the headlamps being insecure. He hasnt even put tge seat on the failure cert but has strongly advised that i get new ones.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
marcus

[mrzigazaga]

marcus1875 said:

TBH i dont even know what i would call that bit! Suppose it would be of a jag?

Hi Marcus...That looks like part of the hub carrier..Unfortunately they were TVR engineering and not from any other car..That weld looks like a DIY first attempt..Bloody awfull!..Potentially dangerous too..The hub carrier is what the wheel hub is bolted to..You need to check to see if you have seperate hub carriers..Most early wedge's did..You then need to find a decent welder..Ziga

Edited by mrzigazaga on Saturday 9th March 21:10

[Danny Hoffman]

I bought a complete rear end (diff, rear brakes, tailing arms, drive shafts etc) off fleebay a while ago.

Both the bearing housings are cast (unlike on my car) and both had welds that looked like repairs to cracks. The welding looked to be done by someone who know what they were doing but I was surprised to see that the castings had failed.

You might be able to get yours re welded if you can't source a new one.

[marcus1875]

douglas valley are breaking a 350i. would the hub carrier/housing from a 350i fit a 280?

[Danny Hoffman]

As long as they are the same type (trailing arm v A frame) I would have thought they would be the same.

[utternutter]

mmmmmmmm nasty weld, trouble is that as its already been welded it makes it more difficult to do the decent job that's required, any weld point is a weakness so would advise a second hand part being where the welding is, to weld it needs to come off the car completely and all the weld grounded off and plate removed, when that's done and a new plate made you chanfer all the edges of plate and suspension part to create a V where the weld will go and burn the weld in for full penetration then grind back to level, that's the proper way to get a strong weld and be sure the stress on the hub won't break the weld, but again I would recommend a replacement part but the weldI g would legally see you through till you get one. hope this helps but if not I'm in the bath on my 5th bottle of cider so ignore me lol,oh yes I'm a qualified welder lmao