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Well, it's that time of the year again. The car has gone in for its annual health check today. It has been behaving itself lately, so I am hoping there is nothing major-ly wrong with it......

Fingers crossed, hope they don't get you on the old "indicators aren't Orangey enough" line

Good luck!

Best of luck CJ

I did a service and mot on a 307 HDI this morning....really winds me up when people can't even check their lights and wiper blades.....

Failed on headlight, 2 front sidelights, number plate lights and headlamp aim plus left wiper blade completely stripped

I repaired it on site and got the mot.

Back to the 407.....

jasper5 wrote:Best of luck CJ

I did a service and mot on a 307 HDI this morning....really winds me up when people can't even check their lights and wiper blades.....

Failed on headlight, 2 front sidelights, number plate lights and headlamp aim plus left wiper blade completely stripped

I repaired it on site and got the mot.

Back to the 407.....

I can't understand why people send their cars in like that it must wind-up the MOT man a treat.

My car was super-clean when it went it 3 weeks ago and I even took the precaution of changing the less-than-orange indicator bulbs BEFORE going for the MOT

jasper5 wrote:Back to the 407.....

What's with the 407?

It's not a 406!

j/k

I think Jasper said it was a DMF/clutch change.

Best of luck with the MOT CJ.

What map are you running at the mo.....

(Not that is should matter, mine flew through with a slight whiff of 1960 Routemaster exhaust).

I remapped it back to original for the MOT

I didn't - recorded 0.74 l/m against a limit of 1.5

Mind you I am think of doing an mpg comparison between the two setups.......

Fingers crossed CJ! Your car should breeze through

Welp.... it passed

Although Mr. Jasper will be unhappy to learn that it failed originally for a n/s/f side indicator bulb (I did check...)

Anyway, I do have 2 advisories:

Rear brake pads wearing thin
Rear brake discs worn



Are discs hard to change? Not looking forward to that following mjb's troubles with his rear brakes.

Also, a peculiar line on the invoice:

"Check over for Mot Test. Replace n/s/f side lamp bulb" - £14 + VAT

Hm, strange that they still supplied me with a failure notice.

Excellent news Alex!

CaptainJack wrote:Are discs hard to change? Not looking forward to that following mjb's troubles with his rear brakes.

It's not such a bad job, I've had mine apart so many time it's become second nature!

teamster1975 wrote:Excellent news Alex!

CaptainJack wrote:Are discs hard to change? Not looking forward to that following mjb's troubles with his rear brakes.

It's not such a bad job, I've had mine apart so many time it's become second nature!

Let's ask Doggy the same question

Captain Jack wrote:Welp.... it passed

Although Mr. Jasper will be unhappy to learn that it failed originally for a n/s/f side indicator bulb (I did check...)

Anyway, I do have 2 advisories:

Rear brake pads wearing thin
Rear brake discs worn



Are discs hard to change? Not looking forward to that following mjb's troubles with his rear brakes.

Also, a peculiar line on the invoice:

"Check over for Mot Test. Replace n/s/f side lamp bulb" - £14 + VAT

Hm, strange that they still supplied me with a failure notice.

One indicator bulb could go anytime, but the wiper he must have known about because it smeared the screen completely, the other lights, well there were just too many for an accidental failure

My mot guy failed the 307, I fixed the faults outside the garage and got the mot straight away because the car had not been removed from the premises.

The 407? Yes, I have been replacing the DMF and clutch since sunday a bit at a time, finished it now, all is well

My own car btw.