Is it worth fixing?

EcoR1

There's also the fact the MOT tester doesn't know his job, Ka's don't have body mountings.

colino

Good decision, despite the dodgy advisories, its old, its already rotten and time for a flick through Autotrader. (Can you do that onscreen?)

Joe_Horner

EcoR1 wrote: »

There's also the fact the MOT tester doesn't know his job, Ka's don't have body mountings.

Bahhhh - you beat me to it

Not sure that's enough to warrant a second opinion on the car this time, but it's certainly enough to warrant changing testers in the future!

bafty_crastard

Where does it mention body mountings?

I have no idea about cars and bodywork, tend to rely on what the garage tell me, but can't see anything on the previous MOT's about body mountings (all info copied and pasted from DVLA)

bafty_crastard

It's ok, just seen it on last years MOT.
Last year it went to a different MOT testing place than usual as the 2013 advisories had mentioned the sills being corroded so it was put into a garage that did welding (though the sills weren't mentioned in the 2014 MOT)
Normally mine and the wife's car go to the same garage who did the MOT in 2013 and this year.

Doesn't matter now anyway, it's getting scrapped on Tuesday

s_b

bafty_crastard wrote: »

Doesn't matter now anyway, it's getting scrapped on Tuesday

good man,i wouldn't let my wife drive it

AdrianC

Body mountings. Subframe mountings. Suspension mountings. We all know what they actually mean.

EcoR1

AdrianC wrote: »

Body mountings. Subframe mountings. Suspension mountings. We all know what they actually mean.

Well I kind of agree, we can probably work out what the tester means. However the tester clearly doesn't know his way around the tester's manual and wouldn't know a prescribed area if it jumped up and bit him on the !!!!.

In my experience, these sort of testers are the ones who fail any rust hole they can find regardless of it actually being a failure. Nissan Micra front crossmembers etc.

AdrianC

EcoR1 wrote: »

However the tester clearly ... wouldn't know a prescribed area if it jumped up and bit him on the !!!!.

So which of the areas flagged on those certificates fall outside the prescribed areas?

bafty_crastard

Picking up a 57 plate Citroen C3 tomorrow with 37,000 on the clock and FSH for my wife. Drives well and is immaculate. Also has a 12 year anti corrosion/perforation warranty so shouldn't rot like the Ka!!