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haimesyboi

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19th Feb, 2010 at 09:58:52am

The oil pump has just packed up on my daily golf and i could do with a run around until i can fix it.
My mini is running now but far from completed, for basics the brakes need fitting and i have holes left in the door skins, bottom of rear quarters, rear valence and passenger footwell. i want to repair these properly, but i also want an mot now *oh well* are all of these places an mot failure?


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19th Feb, 2010 at 10:02:05am

The MOT rule for corrosion is within 30cm of any suspension mounting or component. Unfortunately on a Mini this means pretty much everywhere due to the small size of the car!

However it does depend on the tester as some will use common sense with regards to what is load bearing. For example the rear valance IS within 30cm of the rear subframe mountings, but IS NOT load bearing. Same really with the rear quarter bottoms.

The doors you will probably get away with, so long as there are no jagged edges that could injure a pedestrian or passer by.

The front footwell is definitely a fail.


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19th Feb, 2010 at 10:15:15am

Speaking of the rear valance, do the 30cm rules just cover corrosion?

Having read the article in this months minimag on lightening, I was considering drilling some holes in the rear valance and was wondering about MOT time and how a tester might look at this.

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19th Feb, 2010 at 02:18:35pm

You could get away with most of the areas you mentioned depending on whether the areas are considered 'structural' & not within 30cm of seat belt mounts & load bearing areas. It could be an idea to tape up or just quickly fill the holes in the doors etc with body filler to tidy it all up.

The floor definately needs welding-up, either weld on patches or a new panel, the valance depends on where the rot/hole is. If the rot is causing a weakness near to the joint with the boot floor then that could be a structural defect, but if a hole has appeared in the valance where it's just tatty, tape over or put in some filler for the MOT.

You can put in a series of holes to lighten the panel so long as the panel isn't rotten/weak. The body is of monocoque construction so each panel is part of the structure.


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20th Feb, 2010 at 10:22:39am

New floor and valance goin in the weekend will tape the rest and hope for the best.
cheers

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20th Feb, 2010 at 10:36:02am




On 20th Feb, 2010 haimesyboi said:
New floor and valance goin in the weekend will tape the rest and hope for the best.
cheers


tape*frown* atleast give it a coat of tetroseal too to hide the tape

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22nd Feb, 2010 at 01:07:11am

Rear valance! if its not there he cant test it *hehe!*

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