172 C.U.P. (Complete and Utter Poo)

This hasn’t been a great winter/spring for the Cup. And it’s MOT day tomorrow…

I finally got the gearbox mount refitted, and then realised that for an MOT, any seatbelts need to be secure and the airbag light off etc etc. never mind the rust. Whacked some 3.3 ohm resistors in the airbag connections and both the airbag and the SERV light went out. Great. Lost the bolts for the seatbelts over the last 9 months or so, not ideal. Managed to get the front passenger belt secure- I have bucket seats but standard belts. At the rear I was worried that flappy belts would be a fail- I undid them at the base to get the interior panels off to check for, and find, rust.

They’re now bolted in, the rear bench is out and a nice carpet in there. I’ll remove the rear belts fully when I have time.

Put the alternator shield into the new grille, took out all the s**t (new wings, suspension, driveshafts, etc etc) to make it at least a bit smart. Washed off all the pollen.

Please MOT gods, be kind tomorrow.

I forgot to mention the insane flooding. I think I have it finally dried out but it was a long process. Don’t want to ever do that again. It looked like it was down to my centre drain- not blocked but the insert was lifted up and I guess preventing water draining. Litres of it in the car…

did it pass?

Wheel bearings were changed about 200 miles ago at two techs, so I think that advisory might actually be for the clicking shagged driveshaft.
My front subframe is a mess, if I’m changing the suspension arms, dampers and bushes anyway, should I just go ahead and do it all with a new subframe?
Rear plate is absolutely fine, insane advisory to me.

That's a shame.. sounds like a good opportunity for a front end refresh though. Drop the subframe and get everything (subframe, arb, bottom arms hubs etc) blasted and powder coated

Yeah, seems to make sense as I would want to do it at some point anyway.

The headlamp aim is a pretty obvious one-I have a bulb dangling in the holder!

I'll need to talk to two techs about the wheel bearing as they literally just changed them both!

The rest is all fine for me, not real surprises. I wonder if the "service brake" could just be binding/ rusty brakes from it being stood for nearly a year. It's done about 600 miles with me in the year... maybe a hard run would sort that?

Just a thought- front wheel bearings were done, I then added spacers- wonder if a spacer is giving the effect of a loose wheel bearing???