MOT Failed - 8 hours welding needed...??!!

sonic85

Hi everyone,

I would like your opinion. Is this would be a rip off or this price can be true?

So I took my car for MOT and its failed. The reasons are:

001 Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded nearside rear inner (wheel arch area) [5.2.6]
002 Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded offside rear inner (wheel arch area) [5.2.6]


and here are the prices (I can't link picture because I'm a new user..)

Labour Qty Unit VAT% Net Total
Weld plates required 8.00 45.00 20.0 360.00
Renew fuel filter 0.5 45.00 20.0 22.50

Labour Sub Total 382.50


Parts Qty Unit Vat% Net Total
WELD Welding materials 1.00 50.00 20.0 50.00
503440629 Mann Fuel Filter 1.00 9.34 20.0 9.34

Parts Sub Total 59.34

+£40 for MOT

Estimate Total £570.21..............

8 hours of welding??!

the car is a Vauxhall Corsa 2001 1.4 SRI. I've just spent over £200 for O2 sensor, new exhaust pipe, spark plugs and labour...

Is it possible that it needs 8 hours??:eek:

What would you do?

Cheers

DUTR

Do you want them to weld with the seats and interior in situ?
2001 Corsa's command less than £1k so it depends how much you love the car.

motorguy

sonic85 wrote: »

What would you do?

I'd find someone who could weld cheaply.

Thats ridiculous.

nidO

It's probably 20 minutes of welding in between 3 and a half hours of ripping out the interior of your car and 3 and a half hours of putting it all back in again.

marlot

They might do it cheaper if you do the stripout and refit

windup

is it corroded

why fuel filter

take it elsewhere

isn't the anchorage higher up than the rear wheel arch.

Lomast

There is an awful lot of trim that has to be removed before you can even start, then you have to cut out all the bad metal, make/shape/form the replacement parts, even if repair plates are being used from a motor factors they will need to be cut to fit what is being removed. The trim all has to be refitted afterwards

I can see 6 hours easily without knowing the car so 8 hours could well be possible.

I dont do car welding anymore but do a lot of fabrication and i charge that at £35 an hour so £45/hr for a garage is not unreasonable

AdrianC

windup wrote: »

isn't the anchorage higher up than the rear wheel arch.

Not if it's the lower outer mount for the rear belt, it isn't. And that's far and away the most likely.

Eight hours - a day's work - is easy to picture when you start stripping out trim, potentially suspension, probably fuel tank, then cleaning up the metal before and after, seam-sealing and protecting everything.

As for the fuel filter, if it's in the area they're going to be working, access will be easier to do it because of commonality of bits removed, and it looks ancient, you'd be daft not to do it.

OTOH, I'd be seriously thinking of lobbing that Corsa away and buying a new one.

Option C is to remove the rear seats and belts completely...

arcon5

Depends whether they do it properly or the way bobs garage do it - apprentice in the car or around the car with an air blower whilst the other welds some patches over top.

Marktheshark

2001 is 15 years old.
People still think of the new reg plates as new cars.
At 15 years old and a vauxhall its now scrap.

sonic85

I see now why it would take so long
Don't be confused by the fuel filter, I just bought one to change it but did not have luck with the weather (I don't have covered place) so I just asked them to do it for me.

Thanks for the answers!
Now another question how could I get the most money out of that car?