Took the Veccy for her MOT this afternoon, as expected, she failed.
First of all, the failures were:
1) Nearside lower suspension arm has excessive play in a balljoint (basically bottom balljoint)**Dangerous**
2) Offside (and nearside) Front brake disks excessively worn
3) Emissions - CO2 levels excessively high at idle speed
Thankfully I know the MOT tester, and he's a great bloke. I realised the car was running on petrol when it failed it's emissions test.. (although it was set to gas, but not quite warm enough to idle on LPG) so I flicked it onto petrol, and then back to Gas - revved the nuts off it for a couple of minutes - and asked him to do the test again. This time round the car remained on LPG, and it breezed the emissions test 8-)
I have got 10 working days to go back for a partial retest, so emissions won't be tested again - phew!
So all I've got left to do, is change the front disks and pads, and the balljoint. Question is, shall I change JUST the balljoint, or should I splash out on a new pair of wishbones? Bearing in mind I'm likely (hoping) to be trading it up for an Omega asap. I would have to drill out the riveted balljoint, to fit the new one? Presume Vx would supply bolts?
Not a bad result at all to be honest.. considering the car has done well over 60,000 miles since it's MOT 11 month's ago!!! 
SHould be warm before the emmisions test - it could have been running open loop when originally tested
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