England :/

It was a senior moment,you were on the way back

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Fail

Nearside inner wheel arch corroded

Offside inner rear wheel arch corroded

Offside front floor excessively corroded (The floor is like Fred Flintstone )

CO reading high

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Advisory

Nearside Front king pin play

Offside Front king pin play

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Nothing that can't be sorted - Hoping to get that all done in time for her trip to National end of the month

I'm back in Worcester to get the 2CV MOTed and take her to Shetland to live. Since I knew I was leaving it for a few months in Worcester, I disconnected the battery before I left for Shetland, so that was the first job this morning. It wouldn't start. So I went though a check list and just ticked off things as I went. There was fuel in the tank, there was a feed to and from the coil when ignition was on, so as there was no smell of petrol under the bonnet I suspected a fuel delivery issue was the problem. I whipped out a spark plug and it was as dry as Gandhi's Flip-Flop! A quick text to Spanners of this parish, a quick reply read, and I was off to the petrol station for a wee drop of flammable liquid. A wee, wee drop of petrol in the carb got the car going and it's now over at Peter Cross' in Tibberton for a fettle/check-up and MOT tomorrow. Hopefully have it back by the afternoon and I can get it booked on the Aberdeen ferry to Shetland next week. Fingers crossed.

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Nearside inner wheel arch corroded

Offside inner rear wheel arch corroded

God they are strick in the UK. What does it matter if wheel arch is corroded?

If the corrosion is close to the rear outer seatbelt mounts, then that's a fail.

If the reason for MOT failure is that there's corrosion within a distance of 300mm from a rear seat belt anchorage, then it depends on whether you want the rear seat belts to be more than decorative.
In France, apparently some offcuts of tin can, a bag of pop rivets and a tub of bondo are sufficient to restore structural integrity...

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Just collected the 2CV from Peter Cross and it's a pass on the MOT. Had to replace the nearside headlamp bulb as the mainbeam filament had gone, and there was a poor earth on the offside front sidelight to sort before the MOT. Also had the handbrake adjusted.

[quote="ken"]If the reason for MOT failure is that there's corrosion within a distance of 300mm from a rear seat belt anchorage, then it depends on whether you want the rear seat belts to be more than decorative.
In France, apparently some offcuts of tin can, a bag of pop rivets and a tub of bondo are sufficient to restore structural integrity...

ken

I see - rear inner wheel arch

160 k road trip of the lanes in the Charente with a visit to Verteuil-sur-Charente,for coffee and cream tea.Then on through the fields of Sunflowers ( sadly flattened in the recent storms ) to Mansle and thence back home to Manot.