Family motoring: PUG 504 Bodywork begins

[greengartside]

Blimey! Good to see a 504 still going strong. A 504 was the family car from 1986-89 when it was written off by a blue Mk2 Escort. RIP SNG 696R.

 

My mechanic from across the street had 2 504 estates which he ran one after the other. Both diesels and ran for absolute years. I've got a picture somewhere I'll upload of them both.

[dollywobbler]

Brilliant. Good luck with the next stage of beau... beueur... paperwork!

[hairnet]

j'taime le merde francais

 

shame ya cant keep the j plate but still

[HMC]

Well, judgement day has come and gone. A whopping 42 point fail list. That is not a typing error. I sat down and repeated it to myself, as I read through the fail list.

 

Ill scan the sheets in and put them up here. Im going to sit down with some cheap beer and comtemplate things.

[Ghosty]

Well, judgement day has come and gone. A whopping 42 point fail list. That is not a typing error. I sat down and repeated it to myself, as I read through the fail list.

 

Ill scan the sheets in and put them up here. Im going to sit down with some cheap beer and comtemplate things.

Would it be cheaper to move back to Jersey?

[cms206]

Well, judgement day has come and gone. A whopping 42 point fail list. That is not a typing error. I sat down and repeated it to myself, as I read through the fail list.

 

Ill scan the sheets in and put them up here. Im going to sit down with some cheap beer and comtemplate things.

 

Jesus wept. Not good man, not good

[trigger]

Depressingly, is it doable or would it be cheaper to export back out?

[carlo]

That doesn't sound a particularly friendly MOT station.

[skattrd]

Is it time for a south west shitters meet @ brookjim_towers for a 504 fixathon?

 

Lets see the list, to see how bad it is.

My record was (don't know the number) but a page and a half of A4 on a Triumph Spitfire. Working methodically I got them all done in a few weekends.

[mouseflakes]

42

 

Bumhatz. I'm sure you'll sort it though.

[Angrydicky]

I had two pages on my A55 Cambridge that came with a fresh (read 100% bent) MoT from some dodgy outfit in Dagenham. I don't think it had ever been looked at, or driven on the road for years, for that matter.

[cort16]

42 fails and all of them washer jet related . Who'd have thought it?

[HillmanImp]

I cannot think of 42 things that could be wrong with a car. Did they just fail it on everything? Quite interested to see the list.

[phil_lihp]

Thats quite a list! Drop me a PM if you want a second pair of hands, I'm not a million miles away

[Hertz]

Christ that's not good. Hope it's silly things which you can work your way through and it's not huge amounts of welding.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I am really looking forward to seeing the fail sheets. 

[Cavcraft]

Wow, that's not good at all. We should have a competition to see who's had the worse fail on here. An old Transit recovery truck I had was pretty laughable but even that didn't come close to this, Mini-Mad's Triumph or AngryDicky's Cambridge. I dread to think what else is out there.

[nigel bickle]

I had a 7 page fail on an old Renner a few years back.

 

Once past the shock (I considered it sound!) I read it carefully to realise that the vast majority was utter tosh. Like failing both wipers, independently because of smearing. They were brand new! 

 

Sorted within a few days & retested by 'the gaffer' (pass), that tester was soon pulled up by VOSA for an excessively high % failure rate, &  deemed a job in another aspect of motoring. he never tested another of mine ,7 that garage's business dropped dramatically -till he left.

 

I understand he went to Rolls Royce, at Goodwood -probably well suited. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

All this talk of bad fails ,can you still get a 'Red Ticket' ? It used to mean that the car was so unsafe you couldn't even drive it away from the test.

Only experienced one once on quite a smart looking Lanci Beta 1800ES saloon, unsurprisingly the engine was about to drop out, I picked up the keys then went back when the place was closed to tow* it away. Seem to remember abusing the shit out of it to see if anything moved, it didn't.

[Sigmund Fraud]

42 failure points on a car that drives without obvious issues ?

 

Looking forward to the scans, but I suspect that your tester is a bit* pedantic. Unless he discovered that half of the car's weight is chicken wire and filler, of course.

[hairnet]

maybe he worked at sochaux?

[vulgalour]

I can imagine 42 items really easily, seems to be de rigeur to fail items independently.  So tyres, wheel bearings, excessive play in each suspension component, wipers, washer jets, headlight alignment, emissions, non-functioning bulbs, various rusty bits, perished rubber items... it very quickly adds up for what are easy things to fix.

 

I look forward to seeing the fail sheets to see how easy a fix it's going to be rather than how horrendous it's going to be.  If it had been 142 fail points that would be a different matter entirely, but I suspect the car would have looked a lot less car shaped had that been the case.

[Junkman]

I had no idea this totally pointless British MoT is actually failing cars, going by the death traps I got through without any advisories.

[Ratdat]

I can haz pony. Again.

[derskine]

I thought the ~20 item list on my 340 was bad...

[nigel bickle]

CONGRATS EDDIE.

 

Totally Pony'd up... Did you frame it back today? haz u piks?

[scooters]

Well, judgement day has come and gone. A whopping 42 point fail list. That is not a typing error. I sat down and repeated it to myself, as I read through the fail list.

 

Ill scan the sheets in and put them up here. Im going to sit down with some cheap beer and comtemplate things.

I think you need a new MOT tester -

 

Worst one I had was a tester who failed an XM on poor shock absorbers....

[Junkman]

I vant to sea se PHALE shits!

[skattrd]

I can haz pony. Again.

 

Did you buy that blue one I posted from the faceache page? (please say yes)

[Ratdat]

I did and what's more I managed to post this in the wrong thread on my phone. What a mong. As you were...