Landrover failed it's MOT today

[Rannsachair]

I am normally good at the pre MOT check, today I failed -on 3 counts with my Defender that was rebuilt on a galvanised chassis 2 years ago and only done 7k miles since!

Rear fog light not working, leak from fuel filter and worn bushes on Panhard rod.

I was perhaps over confident, though I had checked all the lights last weekend. I thought, probably a bulb, nip up the fuel filter I had changed last weekend and probably slack bolts as Panhard rod had new bushes 2 years ago.

I was wrong - fog light turned out to be a badly corroded electrical terminal, when I pulled it off the tangs on the the light came off stuck in the terminal - so new terminal and light ordered as gave up trying to get the broken bits out.

The fuel filter would be simple though.. nipped up as tight as I would dare and still a very slight drip appearing at the top of the filter, so took the cartridge off to confirm the housing had corroded away to the extent that there was inadequate sealing area - so new filter housing ordered.

And of course the poly bushes in the Panhard rod were shot, so back to new original rubber ones.

Suppose at least no welding required

 

[Hitch]

Thats a short failiure list for a Landrover

 

[CompoSimmonite]

I had a bulb fail on the 3 mile trip to the MOT - checked before setting off and duff when arrived at station !

 

[bricol]

Triumph Dolomite Sprint - sealed beam main beam failed before MOT. Swopped it. Got there. Failed on the other one not not working . . .

 

[postie jon]

Triumph Dolomite Sprint - sealed beam main beam failed before MOT. Swopped it. Got there. Failed on the other one not not working . . .

snap

 

[Tom O]

Just out of curiosity what do they put on the roads out there to get so much corrosion they use some sort of salt mixture in Calgary but it seems rare to hear about replacing panels for rust we’ll, wheel well lips!
On my 2012 Ford F-150 there is a device under the hood that supposedly counteracts the rust process has anybody tried running one of these things to see if there is a difference? Buddy down the street has a Chev truck about the same year as mine that has rot around the wheel wells mine is fine I don’t think Chev uses them.

 

[8ob]

Thats a short failiure list for a Landrover

Was thinking the same, he should take it back and tell them to try a little harder

Bob

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Was thinking the same, he should take it back and tell them to try a little harder

Bob

 

[Kayos]

Mine failed on panhard bushes, I didn't realise how bad they were until I drove it fixed

Like new (well as new as a 17 year old landy can be)

 

[Rannsachair]

Just out of curiosity what do they put on the roads out there to get so much corrosion they use some sort of salt mixture in Calgary but it seems rare to hear about replacing panels for rust we’ll, wheel well lips!
On my 2012 Ford F-150 there is a device under the hood that supposedly counteracts the rust process has anybody tried running one of these things to see if there is a difference? Buddy down the street has a Chev truck about the same year as mine that has rot around the wheel wells mine is fine I don’t think Chev uses them.

Where I live in Scotland they often spread a mixture of rock salt and molasses - the molasses reduces the rain and wind washing away the salt. The downside is that it often attracts deer who lick it of the road, so rather than slide on ice you hit deer......

 

[8ob]

The guy that does some of our vehicle/plant paintwork and some of the service work operates next door to an MOT station,most of the advisories are comments relating to rough paintwork ( just to wind him up) Always makes me chuckle reading them

Bob

 

[TechnicAl]

Where I live in Scotland they often spread a mixture of rock salt and molasses - the molasses reduces the rain and wind washing away the salt. The downside is that it often attracts deer who lick it of the road, so rather than slide on ice you hit deer......

So the roadkill comes with a sticky sauce....mmmm

 

[Migmac]

Where I live in Scotland they often spread a mixture of rock salt and molasses - the molasses reduces the rain and wind washing away the salt. The downside is that it often attracts deer who lick it of the road, so rather than slide on ice you hit deer......

Which road?

 

[ronan]

Was thinking the same, he should take it back and tell them to try a little harder

Bob

Its a friday, early quittin' day, get em in, get em out.

 

[Rannsachair]

Which road?

At its most interesting on Jura.....

 

[Migmac]

At its most interesting on Jura.....

dont think I’ll get away with taking work equipment over there!

I have a friend who works for BT, they used to get a lot of bother from the deer on Jura breaking the joins on their cables. Whatever they used was very attractive to the deer


I think we met you on the road a week past Thursday, going by the high school. At least it was a Land Rover very similar to yours.

 

[Rannsachair]

dont think I’ll get away with taking work equipment over there!

I have a friend who works for BT, they used to get a lot of bother from the deer on Jura breaking the joins on their cables. Whatever they used was very attractive to the deer


I think we met you on the road a week past Thursday, going by the high school. At least it was a Land Rover very similar to yours.

Likely was me, I am doing a phased return to work after 5 months of chemo, so not been using the bikes so much as still feel a bit shaky.

Jura is quite a place, human population 200, red deer population 6000. I once dropped my son and a friend of for a camping weekend on Jura and arranged to pick them up at Craighouse (with my RIB), when I picked them up , they told me that they had thumbed a lift to Craighouse and it was only when they were in the car they realised the driver was inebriated.... so swerved all over the place down the single track road -no police on Jura. I mentioned to a friend from Islay who instantly knew who had picked them up.

 

[fizzy]

Just out of curiosity what do they put on the roads out there to get so much corrosion they use some sort of salt mixture in Calgary but it seems rare to hear about replacing panels for rust we’ll, wheel well lips!
On my 2012 Ford F-150 there is a device under the hood that supposedly counteracts the rust process has anybody tried running one of these things to see if there is a difference? Buddy down the street has a Chev truck about the same year as mine that has rot around the wheel wells mine is fine I don’t think Chev uses them.

We get so much rain you are driving through salt water. Then there is the sea air. It is worse living near the coast and the furthest part in Britain from the sea is 72 miles. But probably the worst thing of all is the constant damp. Often in Winter it sits around 95%.
Oh and then you have weeks pf storms. People don't come to Britain for the weather lol.

A lot of Canadians don't realise Britain is further North than most of their big cities. London is on the same latitude as the middle of the Hudson Bay.

 

[daleyd]

We get so much rain you are driving through salt water. Then there is the sea air. It is worse living near the coast and the furthest part in Britain from the sea is 72 miles. But probably the worst thing of all is the constant damp. Often in Winter it sits around 95%.
Oh and then you have weeks pf storms. People don't come to Britain for the weather lol.

A lot of Canadians don't realise Britain is further North than most of their big cities. London is on the same latitude as the middle of the Hudson Bay.

Not quite - it’s somewhere near the bottom iirc but you are certainly right that we are surprisingly temperate for our latitude due to the Gulf Stream.

 

[fizzy]

Not quite - it’s somewhere near the bottom iirc but you are certainly right that we are surprisingly temperate for our latitude due to the Gulf Stream.

Ok but certainly Scotland is as far North.
All the big Canadian cities tend to be along the US border so all further South than us.
Yes imagine our climate without the Gulf Stream - I would LOVE it!