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[terry paget]

Thanks to all for advice. Of course I do not want any member of my family to drive around in a structurally dangerous vehicle. However, as recently discussed, only 2% of accidents are caused by vehicle defects, most are caused by driver errors. When my daughter suffered failure of a rear shock absorber turret, she came to no harm. Life is a risky business. I reckon climbing stairs is more dangerous than motoring.

The tester is one I have used for many years. However, he is a one fo 2 partners in a thriving small garage business, and I would not put it past him to fail a car on rust to make work for his body shop. My first cill repair earned him £250. Then I bought a welder and now do my own. On this test he enquired who had done the cills, then set about my car with a pry bar.

[Doctor Gollum]

Time for a new garage then...

[Nick W]

Time for a new garage then...

One that has never seen the results of an inexperienced welder?

[Doctor Gollum]

Not necessarily... One that won't deliberately attack the car out of spite would be a reasonable choice. 

It's all well and good complaining about an unfair test, but it won't alter the fact that the car now has extra holes in it that it shouldn't have... (as per your dry observation yesterday).

That said, had the areas shown been prepared more thoroughly then the car would probably never have been presented to begin with. One of the reasons my estate has been disposed of... Beyond the failure items, one of the advisories was for front chassis rail corrosion both sides and on closer inspection, both front inner wings were going where they meet the chassis rails.

Whilst it's difficult not to be sentimental about these old buses, most are a very long way from being restoration material and are equally beyond the preservation stage.

[terry paget]

Time for a new garage then...

One that has never seen the results of an inexperienced welder?m

The welder was professional, but used my welder on my premises.

[terry paget]

Explain if you can this n/s wing on X168 a 2.5 high mileage estate bought from a man living on the coast

with this Y118 lower mileage saloon bought in the middle of England

[aaronjb]

One sat. Damp. And rotted.

The other one got used, dried out by airflow, and didn't.

Would be my guess.. my 300ZX was fine when I put it into (not dry) storage, but after eight years sitting in a domestic garage, not moving, had become quite the rust bucket..

[Doctor Gollum]

Seconded... My 270+k plod was relatively rust free compared to my 150k black Elite which looked like it had been parked in the Manchester shit canal...

[aaronjb]

Seconded... My 270+k plod was relatively rust free compared to my 150k black Elite which looked like it had been parked in the Manchester shit canal...

Is that Canal Street?