What a stressful 10 days.
Poor Phear (1993 Fizz) has been off the road since last June (long story - MOT failure - meant to get it sorted) I have a new job soon where I need a car so time is of the essence. Couldn't remember where the fail sheet was and all I remembered was a broken spring.
So she went in with a new spring last week and failed :-(
Outer sill welding
Tyre
Emissions
Rear trailing arm rotten
So welding was done, 3 tyres replaced, had to order a trailing arm from Ricambio (wait for that to arrive and be fitted). Went back in - failed on emissions again Went back to Cats2U as it was just under the two years warranty. They said to send it back, they would inspect it and let me know. Time was running out so ordered a new one. Mechanic spotted the other rear spring was snapped too which the MOT place missed, so another one ordered - wait and fit.
Went back in today - failed on first fast idle check and on the second, it all kicked in and passed So back on the road for another year.
He still has some work to do - service is the main one, brakes need bleeding and have to fit a 12V socket as I'll need it for the SatNav.
The management light has been coming on for ages after say a motoway run and also when it's warm, occasionally it will rev the backside of the car off for no reason and I have to pull over and turn it off. The garage has got a new diagnostic machine that now works with my Panda and it seems it's a Lambda so I'll have to order one of those. Annoying thing is if that's at fault - it may have killed the cat.
Anyway - another 12 months :slayer:
Poor Phear (1993 Fizz) has been off the road since last June (long story - MOT failure - meant to get it sorted) I have a new job soon where I need a car so time is of the essence. Couldn't remember where the fail sheet was and all I remembered was a broken spring.
So she went in with a new spring last week and failed :-(
Outer sill welding
Tyre
Emissions
Rear trailing arm rotten
So welding was done, 3 tyres replaced, had to order a trailing arm from Ricambio (wait for that to arrive and be fitted). Went back in - failed on emissions again Went back to Cats2U as it was just under the two years warranty. They said to send it back, they would inspect it and let me know. Time was running out so ordered a new one. Mechanic spotted the other rear spring was snapped too which the MOT place missed, so another one ordered - wait and fit.
Went back in today - failed on first fast idle check and on the second, it all kicked in and passed
So back on the road for another year.He still has some work to do - service is the main one, brakes need bleeding and have to fit a 12V socket as I'll need it for the SatNav.
The management light has been coming on for ages after say a motoway run and also when it's warm, occasionally it will rev the backside of the car off for no reason and I have to pull over and turn it off. The garage has got a new diagnostic machine that now works with my Panda and it seems it's a Lambda so I'll have to order one of those. Annoying thing is if that's at fault - it may have killed the cat.
Anyway - another 12 months :slayer:
