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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Crazycarzowner on 17 July 2012, 20:58:10
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Poor little Focus! Got the MOT done today, needed a till roll for the failure sheet ::) :o :o :o
1) Exhaust blowing in 2 places
2) Both front to rear brake pipes excessively corroded
3) Handbrake totally useless
4) Rear o/s shocker leaking
5) Rear n/s spring fractured
6) Rear n/s brake cylinder leaking
7) Front brake pipe excessively corroded
8 ) Front n/s ball joint excessive play
9) Emissions too high
10) Needs New boot as split
11)O/side front lower control arm excessive play
Just looked at last years MOT & its only done 3k since its last one, passed with only 1 advisory (after they changed a bulb) wasn't expecting that ::) ::) ::)
Weighing up the options now 87k on a 2000 plate......Hmmmm. Although I must say its wifeys little pride & joy and has never let her down. Not really my cup of tea but I can't fault it on the 3 years we've had it. Might just throw a couple o' quid at it & keep her happy, save trawling around to find another one.
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good luck with the repaires :y
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Cheers mate, I'm just cheesed off everythings gone at once. But hey ho, keep me outa mischief for a few days.
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Best to keep swmbo happy get the jobs done,if you know what's best, :y :y
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Double check those brake pipes before just replacing. Corroded brake pipes was the MOT con. It started quite a few years ago. Basically if they saw dirt they called it corrosion and failed it.
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I've been under & had a look, took some emery paper to the pipes and :o :o its not good news. I'm gonna replace the whole lot, they were bad before I started to clean em, now they're bordering on dangerous. Thing is the bloody pipes go over the top of the petrol tank >:( >:( so that'll have to come out, just as shes filled the damn thing up ::) Actually with the state of the rust on the subframe I think I'm gonna drop the whole lot including suspension, blast all the rust off & repaint. Might as well do a proper job! :y
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Jason. good luck with the repairs. were you on tesco's huddersfield rd last week? I just caught a look of a mig going out of the top carpark. a silver one like mine.
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Weighing up the options now 87k on a 2000 plate......Hmmmm. Although I must say its wifeys little pride & joy and has never let her down. Not really my cup of tea but I can't fault it on the 3 years we've had it. Might just throw a couple o' quid at it & keep her happy, save trawling around to find another one. match in the tank and watch the bugger burn!!
Fixed that for ya!! ;D ;D
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Hi Mel, nope, it weren't me, mine Gold in colour (well at least when its washed).
Might just throw a match in the tank and watch the bugger burn!! ;D ;D ;D
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Jason. I will know what to look for now. hope to see you around.