bought mk2 but failed its mot ragin!
 

got it today,drove it down to the mot centre,guys from farmers in falkirk,were absolute cocks,didnt look interested,waited an hour and a half to get told she failed miserably,few things like back brakes,exhaust blowing,leak in engine bay,petrol i think,power steering fluid,srs light on,baw bags the lot of them,had an advisory saying something was on the screen in drivers view,although just drove 40 odd mile,with my daughter in the back seat

Ouch ....

What you bought then ... ?

if it is leaking fuel (petrol?) and power steering fluid in the engine bay as well as the back brakes being in bad order, then it sounds like they were right to fail it?

Was it bought with little or no MOT then? Hope the price reflected this.

Unfortunatly the days of letting things go through on mots is over, can risk losing your mot station and licence,, id be looking towards the seller tbh

I've seen some garages fail a car for nothing at all and make up reasons just to fail it (one garage local to me failed my Landrover as it was "pissing coolant all over the place and had to abandon the mot" drove it round the corner to another mot station who passed it first time, there was infact no leak from the coolant at all and the first garage just wanted free money for "repairs".

Oh no sir HGF

it was bought with no tax/mot,only had an advisory for the back breaks last year,so took a gamble,need a car as my zr got written off,last owners were fine,im not blaming them,they were great,the garage were useless,it took three of them nearly 3 hours to do a timing belt on a megane,all there good at is changing tyres lol,was dissapointed with the result,but theres stuff im going to go fix right now at my work,will have a good look and let you guys no later

Good luck...

Not good Andy but not too bad a fail list, looks to be all easy enough fixes I think. Fuel leak could be pretty easy, prob a joint or that daft wee seal on fuel rail. Best of luck getting it on the road bud!!

have spent a few hours at work,couldent find this leak,but what i did notice was water dripping from a pipe coming out the bulkhead so think thats what the leak was,no steering fluid leaking,just need flexi part on exhaust done,and back breaks and pads,and a front gator,then she should be good,had a look under the seats,the plugs are fine,noticed there are 1 plug each side,white and black wires with a trace thru them,what are they for heated seats?srs light going out as it should,so im happy with todays progress.

The pipe from the bulkhead is the evaporator drain

Coreys old motor then Andy?

aye mate,should have it back on the road this week mate,cant wait

I don't think its been on the road much in the last year.

Looks like a decent base to start from.

shes a good car,had to have it,was gonna swap the zr for it,3 yrs ago down in wales,but zr was on finance,its funny how its worked its way up to me,and the zr has been written off before i got it weird!!

Fate works in strange ways!

Certainly have more than your fair share of ***** when it comes to your MG's buddy
BUT I do hope with sorting out the little jobs on this 180 you can catch a break & get to enjoy it Andy
looks good & with a little TLC can be a belter...
Good luck to ya mate.

thats the plan marcus,just need goldie to do back breaks,then get flexi pipe sorted,then she should go through mot ok bud,murder no having a car

What happened to the ZR then ? everyone OK I hope..

kellar was coming home from work,and came over a steep hill where traffic lights are halfway up the hill,queue of traffic sitting,and went into a mazda 6,knew it was gonna be a write off,i brung it home and stripped it,gutted in a way,but glad shes ok mate

wee update,goldies done everything he can to get me back on the road,but i need a new flexi pipe welded/replaced,stainless creations are shut untill the 9th july,any ideas what i can do?

Should have got goldie to fit you a decat whilst you were there!

Yeah a Goldie decat would work.I love mines.

i will wait till it passes mot for they kinda upgrades,car in another garage getting flexi sorted,so hes gonna take it to mot station for me tomorrow morning,fingers crossed

good luck!!

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Hope you get a better result the morra Andy.

Are you sure the flexi was a fail ... ?

Mine was an advisory last year. It was just a bit loose .... nothing blowing mind you.

yeah the flexi was blowing dan so got it replaced,still waiting for it to be dropped off,need this done as i still need to tax it aswell

well today has went great,the guy that done flexi,ive knew him for about 17 years,took it to farmers to get it moted for me,on my way to work phoned him stating that tax needed done aswell,i was on my way to pay him,he told me to leave money for tax aswell,as long as all documents etc were there he would tax it for me,so went up at 5.30 today and all legal,well chuffed

Good stuff Andy.now sit back and enjoy the zed,but don't let the missus drive it lol she is a zed jinx.

Good result.

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Nice result buddy, enjoy.

Good news!

Great news enjoy the car mate

pleased its on the road again

Great stuff .... get some pics up in a new thread bud .....

happy happy mate

im glad too warren,was a bit of a stress,and money but worth it