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Salty

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MOT fail
« on: 16 November 2006, 15:21:25 »
Well just got back from a failed mot :(  although not as bad as it could have been I suppose. Need new front discs, which are an item I think of as consumable so not too bad. Also needs a new steering idler which looks like a trip to the dealer and £60 trimmed from the wallet.
At least I know what I'm doing this weekend ;D
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #1 on: 16 November 2006, 15:22:43 »
Hard luck Salty :( But could've been a LOT worse :)
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #2 on: 16 November 2006, 15:23:25 »
What I meant to ask is,
does anybody know if I get the idler for less elsewhere??
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #3 on: 16 November 2006, 15:24:26 »
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Hard luck Salty :( But could've been a LOT worse :)
Your right there, at least they're fairly easy jobs to tackle.
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #4 on: 16 November 2006, 15:26:51 »
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What I meant to ask is,
does anybody know if I get the idler for less elsewhere??

Have you tried autovaux?
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #5 on: 16 November 2006, 15:28:18 »
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What I meant to ask is,
does anybody know if I get the idler for less elsewhere??

Have you tried autovaux?

No not yet, just tried the local dealer
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #6 on: 16 November 2006, 15:30:09 »
01924 376003
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #7 on: 16 November 2006, 15:38:19 »
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01924 376003

Thanks, works out at about £40 posted not bad :y
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #8 on: 16 November 2006, 15:52:23 »
Sorry to hear that m8 but could've been worse
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #9 on: 16 November 2006, 16:36:51 »
Sorry to hear of your bad luck salty still atleast its fixable thats the main thing then you'll be good for another year :y
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #10 on: 16 November 2006, 19:10:25 »
I always tried to keep an idler in garage, as common problem.  As others have said, nice and cheap from autovaux.
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #11 on: 17 November 2006, 06:31:57 »
Well I've got the discs and will be doing them this morning if the weather is fine. Ordered the idler from autovaux so hopefully will have that tomorrow.
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #12 on: 17 November 2006, 06:49:41 »
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Well I've got the discs and will be doing them this morning if the weather is fine. Ordered the idler from autovaux so hopefully will have that tomorrow.

GM discs I hope, previous set bought not GM had to change as warped >:(
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #13 on: 17 November 2006, 07:33:31 »
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Well I've got the discs and will be doing them this morning if the weather is fine. Ordered the idler from autovaux so hopefully will have that tomorrow.

GM discs I hope, previous set bought not GM had to change as warped >:(

Its not GMs fault that your warped ;D
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Re: MOT fail
« Reply #14 on: 17 November 2006, 17:24:16 »
Well got the discs done today in about an hour and a half :). Idler arrived with the post so decided to do that as well, spent the rest of the day trying to split the old idler from steering arm without sucess >:( will have to have a rethink, may have to take the whole steering linkage off. :o
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