How Nervous?

[Admin]

As I type this my elite estate is in the garage either having a wheel bearing changed or an MOT done...  :-/

I know it should be fine, I have checked over everything, the brakes are all ok (stripped and cleaned rears and fitted new handbrake cable), seems to steer fine and there are no clouds of smoke (unlike the Saab!  )

Yet I am still nervous as hell!

I feel like I want to be pacing up and down, awaiting the news...  

[bob.dent]

Good luck Dave, I'm sure it'll be fine. I know what you mean though - a bit like a father waiting in the maternity ward!!

[Big Rod]

Always a nervous time Dave.

Must say tho' I always like to be present when the test's being done. Makes the tester a little more conscienscious I feel.

[nixoro]

Good luck Dave, I'm sure it'll be fine   what with all the work you've done in the run up to it.

[jonny2112]

Nice to see we're all only human after all!  

I think the set up over there for getting an MOT is very different from here, but I always dread it!  

[Tina]

Im sure all will be fine,
You men are all the same worry warts & make a mountain out of a mole hill ?

Altho i like to be there to see what they are doing  :-?

GOOD LUCK

[Auto Addict]

As I type this my elite estate is in the garage either having a wheel bearing changed or an MOT done...  :-/

I know it should be fine, I have checked over everything, the brakes are all ok (stripped and cleaned rears and fitted new handbrake cable), seems to steer fine and there are no clouds of smoke (unlike the Saab!  )

Yet I am still nervous as hell!

I feel like I want to be pacing up and down, awaiting the news...  

Know the feeling, had mine done last week, while I waited (must have smoked 20 fags).

[Markie]

yep me too muct have eaten 20 cigarettes whilst i awaited mine returning!!!

Well i dont know how to smoke  

sure it will be fine Dave.

[Bo Bo]

Yep, good luck, not that you'll need it  

[MaxV6]

I know that feeling .....

Especially about Wheel bearings....

despite not being mentioned by Auto data or Haynes, there is apparently a "special tool" for lining up the rear bearings on the estate....

if not used, they can tend to fail early... like a week to a month after fitting....  according to Gurney's ...  our local VX dealership

they did however lend the tool to my local garage free of charge.....   they just had to wait a couple of days for it...

While there, i'm also having a new HBV, EGR, and a thorough clean out, including the breathers and so on, and rear brake pads...


if they do this all well, and not bastardly expensively... I might get them to do the full suspension replacement I've got lined up for My Sintra.

[Ghosts in my machine]

I think the setup for MoTs is very different in Northern Ireland. At least we don't have to do the underframe clean here before we take it in over here! - If anyone has noticed the precarious ramps at garages in NI, thats what they're for.

I just take mine to a while you wait MoT only place now so I can do the pacing in the waiting room watching them do the test through the window.

Good luck with the ticket! Which garage have you taken it?

[Martin_1962]

yep me too muct have eaten 20 cigarettes whilst i awaited mine returning!!!

Well i dont know how to smoke  

sure it will be fine Dave.

I wandered around bemoaning the fact that the best cars there were mine and a S&R Elite.

Oh and trying to get the service reception people to listen to me for retuning their TV and freeview box.

[nixoro]

Any news dave did it pass :question

[Marks DTM Calib]

No news.....they havn't changed the wheel bearing yet (think a lack of knowledge is hindering the progress!)

[Auto Addict]

Just a thought, Laidback nervous? Should he think about changing his name?