I'm not very mechanically minded and work away during the week so i would need it doing at a garage.
Nearside Rear Tie bar/rod has excessive play in a pin/bush (2.4.G.3)
Offside Rear Tie bar/rod has excessive play in a pin/bush (2.4.G.3)
Nearside Front Tie bar/rod has excessive play in a pin/bush (2.4.G.3)
Nearside Rear from hose to wheel cylinder Brake pipe excessively corroded (3.6.B.2c)
Offside Rear from hose to wheel cylinder Brake pipe excessively corroded (3.6.B.2c)
Nearside Front from hose to limit valve Brake pipe excessively corroded (3.6.B.2c)
Both front to rear brake pipes badly corroded Brake pipe excessively corroded (3.6.B.2c)
Advisory Notice issued Advise slight dampness at both front shock absorbers
Apart from these bits the car is good cond and a good engine, gearbox clutch etc 84000 mls
and suits me for my needs.
Question is whats a ballpark figure to get these bits fixed and through its mot or should i bite the bullet. i only have 500 to spend either on repairs or another car
can anyone help....
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wirebrush off all the brake pipes & grease them & may be worth a punt at another MOT station. You may get away with an advise on the bushes. worth a go for £50
by the time siezed bolts are removed bleed nipples shear you may well knock a big hole in £500 quid
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Go to a garage and get a quote on the repair, if it is likely to be within budget than fix it.
Don't mess around with the brakes just get them fixed or get a new car.
What price would you put on your life?
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Its the first of many bills. That lot will cost you at a garage. Next year its the shock absorbers.
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Wipe the oil off the shocks & grease those brake pipes all of them, then take it to another garage.
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having in the past had car brake pipes fail on the rolling road rather than on the slip road of a motorway im inclined to say with the new vosa rules of pass or advise those pipes must be bad to fail and DO need changing
its now on the vosa computer and even if you did get away with a pass at another station (highly unlikely) and you had total brake failure on the open road i dont think you would like the queens porridge once the court summing up was complete
problem with your car is its foreign and on the verge of being scrap due to fixtures and fittings shearing rather than undoing so a brake pipe exodus is quite labour intensive plus shockers for this model wont wsell in quantity and will be dear
i would scrap it if you can afford the hit
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