Sod it, I thought, I'll take it in and see what else is wrong. We have done all of the things that we knew about. The original TO DO LIST all that time ago is now complete or defunct and thus it is time to work on another. To do that, I needed to take it to MOT man. To do that, I had to part with £120 for insurance. I limped it up the road to the closest one a few hundred yards away called TyreSales.
Oh dear! I knew it wasn't running well and needed a tune, but decided that rather than spending £s getting tuning done, I ought find out what else was wrong as potential big bills would mean another year in the garage. I was rather light headed at the end - the whole of the unit was clogged with rich v8 petrol fumes. I think the tester let me off a few things as he was slowly being poisoned!
The failure list then:
- o/s/f brake application uneven
- o/s/f brake binding
- n/s headlamp not in good working order affecting beam image
- n/s/r coil spring not correctly located
- n/s/f coil spring not correctly located
- o/s/r wheel nut missing
- exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content excessive (5665 against a limit of 1200!)
- exhaust emissions hydrocarbon content excessive
- front brakes inbalanced
