sunflower888
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Hi,
I've a few issues please help if you can, as MOT is coming up soon, and I need to work out what I can do:
1) Can anyone please tell me on the rear right wheel arch, where the fuel tank is, is there meant to be a plastic guard cover above the wheel? It looks like something is missing from my car, but I can't remember?
2) If yes, does anyone know where I can get this part from?
3) Also, it's created a small hole due to rust, is there anything I can do to repair this, cos the garage man said it will fail the MOT and he says it will cost ~£300-400 if it needs welding to pass. Is there any way I can fix it cheaper at all? It's not a structural part of the car, just the inner part of the wheel arch. But they say the cost is due to be being near the fuel tank and so the labour hours it needs to take that out too.
(It's a mk1 R-reg Fiat Punto. I've had this car for 15 years, it's been brilliant, I'd hate to have to scrap it for this hole as the rest of the car is fine.)
4) Also, the handbrake cable was new last year, and it's gone quite lose, holds right at the top, so something seems quite slack. Can anyone let me know how to tighten this, is it easy for me to do myself?
Thanks. #Sigh #
I've a few issues please help if you can, as MOT is coming up soon, and I need to work out what I can do:
1) Can anyone please tell me on the rear right wheel arch, where the fuel tank is, is there meant to be a plastic guard cover above the wheel? It looks like something is missing from my car, but I can't remember?
2) If yes, does anyone know where I can get this part from?
3) Also, it's created a small hole due to rust, is there anything I can do to repair this, cos the garage man said it will fail the MOT and he says it will cost ~£300-400 if it needs welding to pass. Is there any way I can fix it cheaper at all? It's not a structural part of the car, just the inner part of the wheel arch. But they say the cost is due to be being near the fuel tank and so the labour hours it needs to take that out too.
(It's a mk1 R-reg Fiat Punto. I've had this car for 15 years, it's been brilliant, I'd hate to have to scrap it for this hole as the rest of the car is fine.)
4) Also, the handbrake cable was new last year, and it's gone quite lose, holds right at the top, so something seems quite slack. Can anyone let me know how to tighten this, is it easy for me to do myself?
Thanks. #Sigh #
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