Seeing as how elekiedoc (as often) has found the parts needed, it does appear to be a serviceable repair.

few garages want to get involved in repairs these days, it takes time to strip clean inspect and replace individual parts, it could be the case after a lot of work that wear is found in the outer casing not just the inner component and how many customers would be happy to be presented with a bill for 2 hours stripping out only to need a new complete unit anyway.

case in point, i had an alternator failure couple of years ago, the only non friction/sacrifial part thats ever failed on any of my Toyota 4x4's, i nipped the offending alt down to the local sparky who pointed out a crack developing in the outer casing which i hadn't seen, as it turns out he had a Lucas recon unit there within the hour for about £124 which i bunged on, had the crack been internal and unseen until he spent half an hour stripping the thing out, i'd have had another bill to pay for his time, sometimes its only eceonomical for us handy home mechanics to get involved in repairing stuff.

Edited by gordonbennet on 04/01/2023 at 11:50

Capital letter on "Both" implies a new sentence (though there is no full stop), which MIGHT imply a new topic, though other faults listed under separate headings would weaken that interpretation.

OTOH, if one was being a Grammar Nazi, on my interpretation it should be

".Both inner drums stick"

but perhaps that's asking too much of an MOT inspectors technical writing skills

"Maybe the inspector forgot the name of inner tie rod and described it as an inner drum stick." is asking far too little of an MOT inspectors technical writing skills, though it would be (inappropriately) creative writing.

If I was still teaching I could use this as an "See, grammar DOES matter" and "Words have Meaning "example, but maybe not in Taiwan.

Edited by edlithgow on 04/01/2023 at 12:27