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[Jazoli]

A guy at work has just got 12 months ticket on this

 

 

Can anyone explain how as there are no outer sills at all.....

[SiC]

A guy at work has just got 12 months ticket on this

 

 

Can anyone explain how as there are no outer sills at all.....

An MOT guy on here will know exactly, however I guess the polyfilla(?) is covering all the sharp bits. The rusty bits on the sill itself I guess aren't structural bits of the car and the big hole happens to be further than the 30cm or whatever it needs to be away from the suspension mountings??

[garbaldy]

I've already had some young lad messaging me begging me not to buy it as he wants to buy it to modify...

How does some young lad know it's for sale/your buying it, is it advertised then.

[trigger]

The seller posted about it on a Facebook car club group I'm on and this lad has seen it on there.

[anonymous user]

Later on I shall be collecting a hired Luton van to drive down to West Wales, I am wondering if this is classed as a high sided vehicle of the type that we are being advised not to drive during storm Doris Day; how high is high? There are only a couple of bits of the M4 that will worry me with cross winds, so hopefully I shall get there in one piece. The last time I drove a Luton van down there the headwinds were so bad I was changing down on the flat.

[drum]

A guy at work has just got 12 months ticket on this

Can anyone explain how as there are no outer sills at all.....

A solution to rusty sills - cut the remains off...

[Six-cylinder]

Later on I shall be collecting a hired Luton van to drive down to West Wales, I am wondering if this is classed as a high sided vehicle of the type that we are being advised not to drive during storm Doris Day; how high is high? There are only a couple of bits of the M4 that will worry me with cross winds, so hopefully I shall get there in one piece. The last time I drove a Luton van down there the headwinds were so bad I was changing down on the flat.

I would say a luton body constitutes a high sided vehicle and having to change down to maintain forward progress is a minor inconvenience, it’s being flipped over that is serious.

 

BBC weather says Cardiff wind will calm down at 6 pm today.

[bub2006]

Later on I shall be collecting a hired Luton van to drive down to West Wales, I am wondering if this is classed as a high sided vehicle of the type that we are being advised not to drive during storm Doris Day; how high is high? There are only a couple of bits of the M4 that will worry me with cross winds, so hopefully I shall get there in one piece. The last time I drove a Luton van down there the headwinds were so bad I was changing down on the flat.

The sprinter I used was horrendous in slight winds to be honest. A lot taller than it was wide and not much to keep it stuck to the road. I would not like to risk it. I should have fetched a reliant today but I've gave that a swerve. Towing dolly and all.

[Tamworthbay]

My car was rocking in the wind sat at the lights today, I can't ever remember that happening in the uk. I feel sorry for anyone in anything vaguely tall today. Didn't stop an idiot of a Danish HGV going down the slip road off the A5 a few inches from a car, one blast of wind and the car would have been the filling in a HGV/ crash barrier sandwich.

[dollywobbler]

Remember seeing a Luton bodied Iveco that had ignored the high vehicle warning on the Forth bridge. It didn't end well.

[oldcars]

The sprinter I used was horrendous in slight winds to be honest. A lot taller than it was wide and not much to keep it stuck to the road. I would not like to risk it. I should have fetched a reliant today but I've gave that a swerve. Towing dolly and all.

Photos please when you do 

[bub2006]

The sprinter or reliant?!

[oldcars]

The sprinter or reliant?!

 Reliant please 

[bub2006]

Hopefully job will recommence tomorrow. Due to vans imminent death I'm taking my dad's mondeo diesel

[twosmoke300]

If that golf does indeed have a fresh ticket then it's a bent one . The hole at the back of the sill will be within the prescribed areas for suspension and seat belts . Needs reporting to dvsa imo

[Jazoli]

If that golf does indeed have a fresh ticket then it's a bent one . The hole at the back of the sill will be within the prescribed areas for suspension and seat belts . Needs reporting to dvsa imo

 

Yes but how can I report it, I have no idea where the mot was done, asked the guy how the fuck it passed and where he took it and he wouldn't say, there's only 2 local garages and neither of them would pass it.

 

[twosmoke300]

I would imagine you could call dvsa with the reg and they could trace the test station

[Richard]

Definitely a mail order MOT I'd say.

[twosmoke300]

Yeh - even if ( and they aren't ) those holes were out of a prescribed area they would have deffo got an advisory .

[Richard]

A solution to rusty sills - cut the remains off...

 

Worked for Ford with inner wings.

[scaryoldcortina]

I would imagine you could call dvsa with the reg and they could trace the test station

I could trace them right now by doing a duplicate!

 

Yeah, that wants reporting, especially seeing as there aren't any advisories about the sill either. Sharp edge doesn't apply because it's not caused by accident or rot but prescribed area does include "deliberate modification" and therefore it should fail for front suspension, rear suspension and seatbelts.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeh - even if ( and they aren't ) those holes were out of a prescribed area they would have deffo got an advisory .

Almost the entire length of a golf IV sill is prescribed area, because the seatbelt stalk is part of the seat so everywhere from 30cm forward of the front edge of the seat rails counts. By the time you are out of PE for the front bolt, the back one applies, then the inertia reel and then the rear belt lower fixing. There is probably only about 10cm overall that isn't PE.

 

You are dead right though, should I come across one that by chance has a hole in a sill that isn't covered it gets advised on.

[twosmoke300]

Name n shame ! Wouldn't fancy my sig on the duplicate tho

[Jazoli]

Well I've no reason to hide the reg as anyone could have seen it in the carpark, its W554HBV

[cms206]

That Golf is fucking terrifying. If I rocked up to my (admittedly pretty tame) man with that he would forcibly remove the keys from me, bridge it and make me walk home.

 

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[Eddie Honda]

Can anyone explain how

 

[bub2006]

That golf is scary. And I've owned a Picasso

[Jams]

Truly pissed off! Staying in Tamworth the past week with work

 

Goes to my van this morning to find some dick has broken in and nicked me tools!! Drilled the lock it's like 1995 all over again!!

[Jazoli]

That Golf is fucking terrifying. If I rocked up to my (admittedly pretty tame) man with that he would forcibly remove the keys from me, bridge it and make me walk home.

 

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I know I will take some more pics today to show it in all its glory

[twosmoke300]

I know I will take some more pics today to show dvsa and make sure I have today's paper in view