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MOT work
« on: 09 March 2016, 21:13:33 »
Hi all.

Got my new Omega yesterday and took it for its MOT. It failed on a few things but I'm not sure what parts I need to buy to get it sorted. Here are the ones I'm confused with:

004 Anto roll bar linkage has excessive play in a pin/bush offside front
005 Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint nearside rear (track control arm)

Can anyone help please? :y
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #1 on: 09 March 2016, 21:16:30 »
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #2 on: 09 March 2016, 21:18:57 »
Quote from: Kate on 09 March 2016, 21:13:33
Hi all.

Got my new Omega yesterday and took it for its MOT. It failed on a few things but I'm not sure what parts I need to buy to get it sorted. Here are the ones I'm confused with:

004 Anti roll bar linkage has excessive play in a pin/bush offside front
005 Suspension arm has excessive play in a ball joint nearside rear (track control arm)

Can anyone help please? :y


004 is a droplink £10 and 10 minutes work.
005 can only be the rear camber adjuster, but quite how they discovered play in it at an MOT is beyond me. Clarification is required before going any further. Not an expensive part or job, but it should have an alignment session afterwards.


Having looked at you failure sheet:


001 could be a poorly fitted bulb, but a broken adjuster is more likely
002&3 some idiot has fitted directional tyres the wrong way! you might get away with swapping them side to side
006&7 proper repair is new pipes, which will be expected now the fault is on the system.
008&9 photo required, but the bumper isn't metal, so you could probably sort this with duct tape.
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Re: MOT work
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #4 on: 09 March 2016, 21:33:20 »
On 001 he said the lenses were frosted and might need polishing.
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #5 on: 09 March 2016, 21:46:26 »
Quote from: Kate on 09 March 2016, 21:33:20
On 001 he said the lenses were frosted and might need polishing.
Gradually using finer wet and dry followed by a polish and new bulbs should suffice... Basically they're looking for a defined beam, which cloudy lenses don't show...

As above re drop link and rear track rod... Eurocarparts did have Lemforder rear track rods on offer, about £40 each iirc
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #6 on: 09 March 2016, 21:51:07 »
Quote from: Kate on 09 March 2016, 21:33:20
On 001 he said the lenses were frosted and might need polishing.


Even better, as you don't need to remove them from the car. This might help: [size=78%]http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=134048.15[/size]
quick cheap and easy fix.


I'm still not convinced by the rear balljoint, and you've got to be looking at an hour's work(depending on exactly which pipe) to sort the brake pipes plus the couple of quids worth of materials.
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #7 on: 10 March 2016, 00:05:09 »
Thanks I'll have a go at doing the lights myself and I can fix the bumper.

Would I be able to buy the parts I need off eBay? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or would Euro parts be better? I haven't got a clue what I need to buy tbh.

Thanks for all the help. :y
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #8 on: 10 March 2016, 00:37:59 »
Think I paid about £50 each for Rear Track Control Arm - LEMFORDER 16243 01  :)
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #9 on: 10 March 2016, 00:56:01 »
i do wonder if they have gone to town on that mot inspection.

my mot place regularly passes the headlights even though i'm sure the adjusters are broken. the beam is ok but not perfect. the lenses are a bit cloudy.  they also told me off the record to wire brush and paint the osr brake pipe and it has passed ever since. if i had a sharp edge i hadn't fixed i'm sure they would bash it to non sharp foc. once he said off the record i needed to clean up some rust on the underside  - I just wirebrushed it and treated with anti rust and it has never appeared on advisories.

i'm also pretty sure mine wouldn't write down most of those advisories - he'd just have quiet word.  only gripe is twice over the years i have been caught with 'not yellow in enough indicator bulbs'.  he keeps a stock of news ones and fitted them foc though i had to pay full price for them.

on the other hand maybe your tester has held back and really the car's a complete wreck :'(.  it was free though :)

I would suggest taking it to another mot place but i haven't yet worked out if it is all computerised now and the new place will see the recent failures. years back you could get 2 completely different mot results within the same day from different places and that's with a genuine inspection each time.

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Re: MOT work
« Reply #10 on: 10 March 2016, 01:02:45 »
Stop pissing around.. bring it over here... this one passed, But had a advisory on a track rod end... (but he let it go)



The cars in the background have all passed and are awaiting collection
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #11 on: 10 March 2016, 01:05:20 »
It was o/s before you ask  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #12 on: 10 March 2016, 01:11:09 »
all the sharp edges seem to have been bent back nicely...
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #13 on: 10 March 2016, 01:18:31 »
That really made me laugh  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: MOT work
« Reply #14 on: 10 March 2016, 05:40:13 »
Quote from: BIGtime on 10 March 2016, 01:02:45
Stop pissing around.. bring it over here... this one passed, But had a advisory on a track rod end... (but he let it go)



The cars in the background have all passed and are awaiting collection
Waste.of a perfectly good lamp post by the looks of it... :D
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