Transit passed the MOT

[greasemonkey]

That's a great relief.
Always a bit apprehensive, MOTing a vehicle for the first time.
To be honest, I'm delighted.
She's really sound. Two little patches of welding on the cab, Two little patches on the chassis, and one big patch, a bracket on the member where the handbrake bracket mounts. All very simple.

I did the trackrod ends, bottom ball joints, and wheel bearings anyway, but they are just service items, might have had to do them on a three year old vehicle.

A couple of lights out, and needed a new indicator switch, a U bolts slack.

I think I spent £75 on parts, and didn't need the handbrake cable.

I am very definitely going to retest it around February or March.
Although it was a simple MOT, this has done my head in, fooling about rushing on Saturdays to get it done. Not nice. At least at the start of the year, I have more time.

What she needs now is a good rust proofing session, and the paintwork tidying up.
For an N reg Tansit, with over 180K on the clock, I haven't got a lot of complaints.

[GedsJeep]

nice one. 

i put the rexton in this morning and it passed with no advisories, with the comment "thats in brilliant condition for 12 years old"

its like the male equivalent of having a baby...

[Julian]

Having or making?

[greasemonkey]

Heaved the baby out, now I just need to nurture it, and get it to grow into a grown adult pickup, with shiny bits.

I bought a pair of burnproof overalls. They work well. The cuff was outside the glove, a huge blob of weld went down my arm, and sat there, against the burn proof overall. Now I've got a weld burn the size of a 20p piece, that won't heal up...

Took delivery of a tubeless tyre puncture repair kit this morning. Less than a fiver. Should have bought it ten years ago. Paid £15 to have a puncture done a couple of weeks ago, then another tyre starts going flat.
Just done it now, so that's the kit paid for.

The valves in every tyre are bent, and I can't get the gauge on them without a massive effort. 10 Valve cores, and a dozen nice metal valve caps were about a fiver, so I bought those too. In the process of changing the valve cores now. Got fed up of it now though.

[Julian]

If they are the ones that use "worms" to seal the hole, I think they're "for off road use only".

I've had these "off road worms" in the Disco tires for several years and thousands of miles with no ill effect.  Same old story ... dam good bit of kit outlawed by pressure (pun) from the tire industry to protect business and create a monopoly.

[greasemonkey]

That's the ones. We call them licorice strips, but I guess different people have different names for them.
My Uncle has been fitting them for years, and so does the one tyre place. So they might go hard and let air out eventually, but I've had one in tyre for two years, and it's still up.

Bit like part worn tyres. Supposed to be the most dangerous thing next to driving with your eyes closed, and yet every car I've had has had part worns on, and I've bought them too. Never had a problem.
A part worn dealer opening up in Brecon really put a rocket up the the cushy little number the other tyre places were on.
Had two Michelins, hardly turned, for £20 each, as opposed to £110 each from the next cheapest place.......

[GedsJeep]

Having or making?

if you dont know then yer doin it wrong....