General MOT today, anyone fancy a sweepstake...?

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General MOT today, anyone fancy a sweepstake...?

nuddmann

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The old bucket has just gone in for it's MOT, it's gone with 2 drop links and a new front offside wishbone to be fitted, however as it's 11 years old and has 176k on it, who fancies a stab at what else it might fail on?


Just for a laugh and the satisfaction on being right..


Answers below if you will...
 
Had any broken springs lately? Or handbrake cables/adjusters?

Sending it in with new parts is an admission of defeat before you've even started..... :D

True enough, unfortunately I am not at the cutting edge of home mechanics and I did take it in a few weeks ago as I could feel something not quite right in the front offside suspension, hence I knew what parts to send it in with.


Just had a phone call, needs one extra job doing to get it through, any guesses anyone?
 
ARB Bushes?
Track-rod End?
CV Boot?

Well it needed 2 new rear brake cylinders. Sadly, my feeling of utter smugness at the teenage kids having to sit in the old wreck for another year was spoiled by a sodding enigine warning light coming on 1/4 mile form the garage as I went to put diesel in it. Bugger!


The ARB bushes were an advisory as they are deteriorating. Seein as how they are those expensive poly bushes from superflex I'm singularly unimpressed at their apparent short life span. Tracking needs doing again only 6-7 months after 4 wheel alignment, guess the knackered wishbone didn't help?


Still, £350 all in for another year on the road....can't grumble too much
 
How long have the superflex bushes been on? I thought they were supposed to be of the fit-&-forget variety.

Anyway, good to hear that it dodged the coffin for another year. The latest figures on the Howmanyleft site aren't good reading for the Multi.
 
The bushes have been on 2 years mate, even the cheapy rubber ones off Ebay lasted longer, 24 quid not well spent! And my tyres have only been on 6 months, maybe it's trying to cost me as much as possible before it dies.............


Might start looking at those Volvo V40 estates on Autotrader again, trouble is, much as the bucket scares me every time I go near a garage, I can't help but love it as a car. Nice to drive, good mpg and can get all my fishing gear plus a truckload of other stuff in it
 
Fishing gear....don't get me started. No.3 son turns 17 next week, is a fishing nut, and is already eyeing my Multi (currently SORN'd on the drive) with a scheming look. Once he's passed his test, methinks I'll be beating him off with a sh**ty stick. I don't want my Multi smelling like a trawlerman's cacks.
 
Fishing gear....don't get me started. No.3 son turns 17 next week, is a fishing nut, and is already eyeing my Multi (currently SORN'd on the drive) with a scheming look. Once he's passed his test, methinks I'll be beating him off with a sh**ty stick. I don't want my Multi smelling like a trawlerman's cacks.

Get him to invest in a proper eva stink bag for his nets, as long as you don't let him leave the bag in the car overnight they're ace for keeping the smell in! Also, if he's a carp fishing type make sure his boilies and groundbaits are kept in sealed bags......


My 17 year son wouldn't even let me take him to his lady friend's house today in my bucket, insisted on using his mum's car, something about it being a hideous heap of old sh*te...
 
nuddman:

FYI: I replaced my ARB's with DODGE ones and it ain't rattled since - they still use rubber, it's a bit of a faf to fit em but it's worth it. Cost was about £8 the pair 2yrs ago.

W.M.F: you can always fall back on good ole vinegar: (4x tin/ coffee jar lids, cotton balls stacked in each, soak with a good amount of white vinegar, close all windows, leave overnight and hey presto, next day no smell of ANYTHING - not even the vinegar). Worked wonders on my old Space wagen which had been sitting closed up for 9 months - opened the door and got kicked in the kissa with the mouldy smell of a rank dead car. 24hrs later , fresh as a daisy.
 
My fear is that he would use it as a rolling shed (some might say that's all a Multi is worthy of :() and never bother to take the stuff out of the car, except when he's fishing with it.

He takes CBA to a whole new level atm. Was I really that bad at his age? :D

All of which is straying a little way off of the OP's topic.....
 
I spent 680 quid getting mine through its mot! Car cost me 500 quid with a years test on it! Needed jack points front and rear welded on offside, new offside front spring, new offside front arm, new discs and pads up front, two new tyres on the rear and the rear subframe bushes were gone so needed replacing. Also needed a new washer pump motor and a battery afterwards!
 
All of those, except for the welding of the jacking points, are known Multipla weak points/consumables.

Don't like to see comments about having to have welding done. Makes me nervous!
 
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I spent 680 quid getting mine through its mot! Car cost me 500 quid with a years test on it! Needed jack points front and rear welded on offside, new offside front spring, new offside front arm, new discs and pads up front, two new tyres on the rear and the rear subframe bushes were gone so needed replacing. Also needed a new washer pump motor and a battery afterwards!


A lot of people on here would be interested to know how you resolved the issue with your subframe bushes, for that money you presumably didn't have a new rear axle and subframe fitted
 
A lot of people on here would be interested to know how you resolved the issue with your subframe bushes, for that money you presumably didn't have a new rear axle and subframe fitted

On second thoughts it was the rear trailing arm bushes that connects to the subframe that were replaced, not the ones that fiat don't sell unless you she'll out 600 odd quid!
 
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Don't like to see comments about having to have welding done. Makes me nervous!

My original's chassis was fine (183,000 miles).

My current one (same year, similar mileage to other when I got it [85,000-ish]), has a welded patch on the R/H side, next to the front jacking point.
Judging from the upwards bump in the floor in that area, I'm guessing a badly placed jack or axle-stand was to blame.
Rest of it looks OK, just some light surface rust in places, and a few minor flaky areas around some drain/bolt/access holes.
 
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