that "skip" joke is a masterclass of comedy x

@oojimmyflip

Ай бұрын

my son walked in at that moment and he roared with laughter.😂

@chriswalford9228

Ай бұрын

That's a convertible Skoda, as the old joke goes

@Scrubworks

24 күн бұрын

Inaccurate as a comparison to a Saxo though. The skip is made of far better steel, is far more reliable, has a better top speed, is probably safer, and clearly says "No Fires" on it.

book it in for an MOT with the garage that passed it and see what it comes back with.

I'd just report the MOT station to the DVSA. That's absolutely disgraceful

@IfInDoubt..

Ай бұрын

Won't get far, they'll just say it was in better condition or disguised when presented.

@b4tm4nrubin33

Ай бұрын

@@IfInDoubt.. need to name and shame the mot centre or at least pay them a visit and tell them. How many unsafe cars have they mot’d that are driving around

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

It is, you're right.

@benholroyd5221

Ай бұрын

The thing is, this is a very unusual thing to happen. An MOT can't check _everything_ I get a warning on my MOT every year about the brake lines, because its got grease on it to protect it, but they can't see below the protection to see if its corroded. of course they could take it all off, check the lines, but that takes time, and no one wants to spend £500 on an MOT that strips down their car to check _everything_

@GryphLane

Ай бұрын

@@IfInDoubt.. No way it was passable four months ago though. Not in a million years. Rust doesn't form that quickly.

First thing I would be doing is reporting the tester to the DVSA, or whoever is in charge of them these days. That tester should not be a tester, they were either blind - by eyesight or money changing hands, but they need to be stopped.

@HowardLeVert

Ай бұрын

I am tempted to get the garage I use to examine my car, prepare a report on it and then do the same. When I had to replace a tyre - which had a screw in it and I was a little suspicious that it needed blowing up at the time I bought it - the tyre fitter said that the tester must have been blind to pass a tyre with cracks in it and down to the wear markers. Your comments apply to what I think happened in my case.

@Ju1ian10001

Ай бұрын

I am a MOT tester and am shocked at that, but the issue here is, it can no longer go through the appeals process as it's been longer then 3 months. corrosion has a 3 month rule, anything else has a 30 days limit.

@rimmersbryggeri

Ай бұрын

@@Ju1ian10001 I had a fist sized hole in the exhaust silencer of a car that I bough that had been recently inspected (Sweden). It was only £80 though so to be expected but still how did it pass inspection. IT also had knackered front wheelbearings and bottom arms etc. All of these things could not have happened in the 2000 miles it had done after the inspection.

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

I hear what you're saying, but I fear Julian below is right. The other issue is that I cannot be 100% sure there is negligence or foul play, because I wasn't there. I'm 98% sure, but none of us are certain. It's a tough call. Putting it on YT is highlighting the issue to more people though. I was already planning to do a video about the 40yr exemption rule, so this knowledge will expand on that.

I bought a Saxo which had that "modification" 😂. Thats how I got into welding.

According to the MOT log, it first failed on january 5th with dangerous corrosion on both inner front suspension mounts, and a bad front wheel bearing. You should take a closer look at the front strut towers and control arm mounts to see if they have been fixed at all. It also had a fail due to dangerous corrotion on January 4th 2022.

@MrSupercar55

Ай бұрын

Corrosion, eh? Nothing a little welding won't fix.

Dodgy MOTs are so common. I had a car on a forecourt inspected as i couldnt get to it. It had a green MOT. Thr Inspector refused to drive it as it was unsafe. And highlighted all the MOT failure points. Plus many more.

I agree with the comments that say report whoever did the last MoT. We may joke about cars apparently inspected by Stevie Wonder, but someone getting killed because the back wheels fell off at 60mph on a motorway slip road, is no laughing matter.

I like the number plate. That's a Diesel Multiple Unit.(Pleased I'm not the only one! 👍)

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Technically I thought it ought to be DEMU but hey ho

@PaddyWV

Ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN Well. It does have "Slam Doors"!

@damonrobus-clarke533

Ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN that’ll be a Hampshire unit! Or thumper as they’re called!

That's just not on. Rich, I think you need to inform the DVSA (and possibly the Dept. for Transport) about this MOT-tester. Like you said, if somebody were to lose their children because of this level of neglect, all hell breaks loose anyway, but that won't bring the children back. MOT is there for a reason - and you showed the reason with this.

As a tester myself its a hard one we all have to work to the bare minimum standard one level above scrap is that standard. So has it got any brake pads? Yes its a pass then! Its only a fail if its below 1.5 mm and thats pretty much to the metal to metal. But in all seriousness that arch rot is within 30cm of the axle mounts so it shouldn't of passed. Dvsa wont be interested in re inspecting it as its passed the 3 months of appeal due to corrosion date. I wish i could fail alot more in my job and if im honest i have to pass some cars that i personally wouldn't want to due to the limits i have to work to. I have also failed cars that are death traps but the very next day they get there pass from someone else. Its a shit show and 9 times out of 10 the presenter only wants a pass and he or she doesn't care if its legit or not.

@procta2343

Ай бұрын

id rather have a safe car, but not a picky MOT tester, I have had one MOT tester really go to town on the silly things, to the point i had to pull him about it, on two cars. One was stolen a few months later sadly, and when i came to get a claim in, the insurance looked at the MOT, and saw the list advisories, to the point it made them think it was a shed! " door hinges rusty" etc. This was on a defender. The other car, never went back to that garage again, and has passed and failed MOTs since then, but no daft advisories. The MoT tester said, to me you are going to need to change the front indicator bulbs, due to colour, going more yellow, than orange, as he would fail it. I said ok, he changed them for me, for the sake of £10, and MOTd the car as normal, another garage again, who i used for many years, always did the same thing, but would pass or fail it, as normal. They would tell me to look at things, which i would do before the next MOT.

It is cool to go on about safety. You are putting your kids in that car and nothing it cooler than taking care of them as best you can.

@rimmersbryggeri

Ай бұрын

Not to mention their dad. ;)

@adamweston4152

Ай бұрын

Talking about safety is very cool and is a very important subject to address, as you said that everyone loves a bit of drama but a car in this kind of condition is a lethal thing and could cost you and your family dearly if it's involved in an accident plus you could be liable if the issues with the car were not fixed and someone died because of it so please talk about safety, it's a responsibility that will be very appreciated.

Many years ago I had a Mercedes 200 Diesel from 1972; a W115 model. After the brand new (german) MOT I recognised that both sills had big holes where the mounting points of the chrome trim are. Happy welding AFTER the MOT, not FOR the MOT. Dear Kitch: you’re not alone. We are surrounded by, let’s say, insolent people. Take care, see you - Martin/Lake Constance 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦄🇩🇪

That fine line between lowered and collapsed

Its a real P.S.A. car Piece of S*** Automobile. Gutted for the chap who paid proper money for it. As you say there is a huge difference between driving a car you know might not be the "safest" and driving one that you have been told is spot on.

I recently help buy a Land Rover Defender with a fresh MOT. We knew it needed work but have come to realise it shouldn't have that MOT. Thankfully it's all fixable and we're almost there.

This happened to my dads old saxo. He used the same garage for MOTs and when it eventually failed for some rust, he sold it to my friend as a fail. Offside Outer Vehicle structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced sill (6.1.1 (c) (i)) Nearside Brake pipe excessively corroded main brake pipe (1.1.11 (c)) Nearside Front Drive shaft joint constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (6.1.7 (g) (ii)) Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories): Oil leak, but not excessive (8.4.1 (a) (i)) Brake pipe corroded, covered in grease or other material all pipes (1.1.11 (c)) My friend stripped it down and found loads of rust at the back just like this. The MOT station never picked up on it.

@kylekaye9147

Ай бұрын

It's very hard to see rust on MOTs especially hidden areas

Pretty good. Informative. Thank you.

woah!! where did this excellent channel come from?! funny, informative, interesting - subbed.

@UPnDOWN

29 күн бұрын

Ha, thank you!

What a shocking discovery. The MOT testing station needs to be reported. At least you have three potential outcomes and the technical skills to get a proper result! Great humour as usual.

15:43 "Goes like a train." Unfortunately, that train is a clapped-out Cravens Class 105 fartbox.

@Eric_Hunt194

Ай бұрын

Was so pleased when he made that reference, because it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the reg plate!

@grumpy2.0

Ай бұрын

I'm waiting for the Rolling Road. Proof of it going like a Train.

I had the same thing with a 05 mini it had failed a mot the it was passed at a different location with no issues I bought the car and found out it still had all the problems the the first garage failed it for it not cool and it’s dangerous Iva garage takes a payment to pass a car they should never be allowed to fix or do mots it’s so dangerous so I no what it’s like keep up the great content I really enjoyed your videos

The floor on the Saxo goes UPnDOWN, UPnDOWN, UPnDOWN, the floor on the Saxo goes UpnDOWN, tiiill it gets welded...? Maybe? VeryTRusty?

The 106 idea seems appealing

Thanks for the heads up about the rusty floor. That would have been a bad accident if you would have kept on driving it. Yes, we have those same inspectors here on this side of the pond. We have a large area in the North East of the US called the rust belt due to the lousy weather in winter and the copious amount of salt spread to clear the roads. Good Luck with it for the track and Thanks again for the public service announcement. They are necessary.

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

My SM came from the rust belt!

Proof positive that Citroen produce fantastic suspension systems. What could be more innovative than a fully floating floor?

Yay Up n down uploaded ❤️

i remember about 15 years ago ,there was a mot inspector that if you went in the afternoon he was drunk and would just pass the computer to you to pass your car.I walked straight out and went to another garage.

This was happening at least 15 years ago on saxo's. I had a vts for many years in the early 2000's and if I remember correctly the inner arch was made of several layers and it corroded from the inside out

@procta2343

Ай бұрын

That will explain why i saw a shite load of them in scrap yards at the time, always thought it was the rear beams. But i give this one its due, its got the standard rear lights on! I remember one scrapyard having about 15 of them in and not one had standard rear lights on.

Everyone makes mistakes buying cars, I think its part of life. Hopefully you and your kids have great fun with it. I really think you should be reporting the MOT station as others have said. No way should they be getting away with putting people at risk. All it would have taken is a young family to have bought it and been rear ended and it would be a different story, and I'm glad you didn't find out the painful way.

I had my mondeo in for an mot that failed on emissions, he advised me on rear bottom arms. when I took it to another place I was told my rear springs were ready to push through the bottom arms as they were so bad. I want my car safe. I had them replaced immediately

Thanks for the video Kitch, its a pretty car! But a skip nonetheless, a disgrace it got a MOT last januari. At least you have got another project on your hands😂

I am a 38 YO guy from Portugal... Adopt me, I'll build the "Tractiva" with you !!! :D

The thought struck me whilst watching this that in many parts of America this would be totally road legal!

@Phiyedough

Ай бұрын

Yes, I follow the Bus Grease Monkey channel and most of the buses they get in have major safety issues due to neglect.

I don't like saying it & I don't think it'll go anywhere, but I think that MOT needs reporting. Ridiculously dangerous. As far as its future goes, the 106 Zest sounds like a lot of fun, especially if you can find a clean one. How bad are the previous crap welded repairs & what else is bodged? I guess is the question. Edit: Just having looked at the MOT I guarantee they'd try use the 'repairs carried out heavily undersealed & painted' as a get-out clause. I wonder if it was trailered away by the owner, badly bodged & covered up. If the tester can't definitely see it, they can't fail it. Just pontificating & playing devils advocate a little...

@Mitch-Hendren

Ай бұрын

Over here in NI . If they cant see it they won't pass it . Government test centres though not garages works slightly different.

@chrisdowns1987

Ай бұрын

@Mitch-Hendren I guess thats an advantage of independent test centres. For us no covers, trims or anything like that is allowed to be removed & certainly when I did my MOT licence the mantra was 'If in doubt, pass & advise'. Admittedly that was about 10 years ago

A proper rust repair series on this Saxo would be most beneficial. There is nothing really on You tube on sorting them out - and most even decent looking examples of Saxo and 106's are now in need of repair in the inner rear arch boot floor area, front inner wings and front floor area.

That’s why you don’t see many of these on the road, they were notorious for rusting like a tin in the sea

There's broken down van parked near me for 3 months. Somehow that managed to get an MOT in March. It wasn't able to move on it's own power and was missing a front reg plate. Just shows there are still dodgy MOTs and garages out there.

Driving that back from Dartford! You’re braver than you look 👀

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Brave/naive/stupid are all cousins.

I bought a van with a fresh MOT from a garage that also had an MOT test bay; the van was rotten, but I didn't realise how bad it was until the MOT tester declared it unsafe to drive the following year.

Inner wheel arches welded a few of those on 106s and saxos

That is exactly what happened to my saxo sport due to the rear window breaking and the liner in the boot would soak it all up. Never noticed it

A long time ago, probably over 15 years, I was following a couple of very young lads in a Peugeot 106, or one of it's equivalents, and noticed that from directly behind, in line with the offside rear wheel p, I could clearly see the full tyre width of all 4 wheels. The thing must have been crabbing like crazy. I considered that a subframe might have been replaced with compromised alignment, but more likely it was a cut and shut job. I really hope they survived. I got the impression they might be planning to drive it hard, at least so far as a low spec. 106 could be driven hard. I was debating whether to try to get their attention and say something but a pedestrian crossing light change got in the way of that plan.

The level of lowering reminds me of the old chap a few years ago who loaded his elderly Renault Clio with long sections of scrap 80x80 steel box section sticking out the boot by a good 1.5 m until the arches almost rubbed on the tyres. A contractor was demolishing a huge steel pergola, let's say almost 5x15 m, and the old chap grabbed all the steel and carted it off in his Clio in only a handful of trips. Absolutely mental! I don't think he'd have survived a crash even at 30 MPH considering he didn't really tie down the steel in any fashion. In all fairness he might not have been able to reach 30, he did drive off quite slowly. I was just an innocent bystander, watching the tradies dismantle that massive things, commenting how it would have dismantled itself soon anyway - the bottom of the steel structure was as rusty as this Saxo. Built as a pergola with a self-supported timber floor in the early 80s and then upgraded with layers and layers of flooring and walls until it looked more like a building and was used year-round as additional indoor seating for a restaurant - with absolutely zero insulation in the floor, walls or roof. No kidding, there was ceramic tile on chipboard over carper over chipboard over a timber floor! I actually asked the local council who'd even given permission for building that thing in the first place, it sat in the middle of the street in a pedestrian zone, and they said they had no clue, the structure pre-dated their records. Which is odd, since they must have had some way of knowing that the structure was on some kind of time-limited permission that ran out in 2022, which was the basis on which they forced the owner to demolish it and replace it with seasonal outdoor tables.

HomeBuilt bought a Suzuki Jimny that when they took the covering up in the boot there was about 10% floor there - it took cutting, sheet metal grinding back and fabrication to fix - literally not cost effective but they were making an off road toy so it was for fun not retail

Take it (on a trailer obviously), to a local MOT garage and get their reaction when you show them the valid MOT.

Some nice angle iron welded in the full lengths of where you’ve temporarily welded would be fine. Then plate up the remaining holes in the skin.

we had these problems 10 years ago. U should be extra careful if buying now :D

It such a good looking hatch back and the rust so bad

Funny thing is the car initially failed on corrosion else where then when it was retested they advised the vehicle was hevily under sealed. My question is the corrosion your saxo has is it visible from the wheel arch or is it covered by a wheel arche liner? Mot test is only a visual inspection and as the spare wheel on those is under the car the tester probably wouldnt have even opened the boot. It seems very odd they failed it on corrosion else where but not there unless it was not visible from underneath/ the wheel arch.

Just wondering when you are going to have time to fix it🤔 Especially with all the other projects you have

I've had this exact problem. It was rusted at the back, we had 5 people in the car and went over a speedbump way too fast. So the side welds broke, the floor came up, which pushed the sidewalls of the boot out, which then were grinding against the wheels. As you can see, not my smartest moment. I honestly thought this was an entirely unique problem as I could not find any info on this happening online, now I know better.

@royfontaine5526

Ай бұрын

Probably better finding out in those circumstances tbh!

Class video. Was the tester guide dog at lunch?

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Lovely boy he was, Benji. I do like a lab.

Need to find me a place that does inspections like that...

My Lancia Delta is like that, happens regularly. They have a seam in the rear arch that splits under cornering forces and they tear themselves to pieces. That, however, is absolutely atrocious. Considering it was tested and on the road. Good catch! That would literally have come to pieces on the track.

@jncg2311

Ай бұрын

Oh, love a Delta, shame they do that, I'd not realised. Do they not flex at the back of the inner front wing and crack the bulkhead too? My dad had a series of them until Lancia stopped selling in the UK, none got old enough in his hands to have structural problems I don't think though they were all driven hard and some not entirely on public roads.

@pentagrammotorsport

Ай бұрын

@@jncg2311 they can go there too. Thankfully mine hasn’t but I’ll be strengthening that section up as a matter of course.

Many will say otherwise but... The dealer MOT is very much alive and kicking. In the past, I have worked for a car dealer that had a pet MOT station... I have taken cars that have been sold for MOT. The MOT station asked me... Did it drive ok? I said yes... The car was booked onto the system and we talked and had coffee. I left with an MOT. The car had never left the car park. Occasionally brown envelopes would be passed. A few years have passed and the MOT station is now under new ownership and the dealer I worked for ceased trading.

Yet the bodywork looks great. Maybe it's time manufacturers paid more attention to protecting the undersides of cars.

@royfontaine5526

Ай бұрын

Manufacturers have actually gone backwards in terms of underbody protection, whilst upper body seems rot resistance seems generally better. Can we not have both ffs?

I've seen this happen before when the rear bar seized up and basically all the boot takes the flex

Was marshalling the truck racing meeting at thruxton this weekend and was involved with the JSCC which is essentially younger drivers ( I think 14 years up) racing identical Citroen Saxo cars which got me thinking change the badge and go racing?

@UPnDOWN

2 күн бұрын

Why would I need to change the badge? The JSCC use this exact model! But in a dream world, yes, I'd do exactly that!

There always used to be a 'grace' period on the Dartford Bridge. If you speak to them you may be ok for one isolated mistake.

1:10 reminds me to the scene when clarkson had to find a corolla in between fridges

A good number of early C5's had buckled boot floors and the spare wouldn't sit in the well properly on arrival at the dealership. When they came out the securing point for transport was the hook under the spare wheel well but they would bounce about a bit and the suspension could raise/lower in certain cases. No way to know which bit would end up high or low. Saxo strapping points just went in the rear suspension somewhere and front wishbone from memory and the whole front strut could be seen to move forward or back a bit under the tension. The 206 had a piece of steel mounted to the bottom of the shock and just dangled, down revealing hole stamped in it to take the hook on the ratchet strap. As soon as they hit the used market the auction boys didn't know how to strap them so just hooked the bottom bolt of the shock. If I had £1 for every one I saw with shock ripped off I could have retired before any were old enough to need an MOT. Done properly you could pull a 206 down so tight the tyres tucked up in the arches. The front end had a huge loop to take the hook and that could almost drag the sump nut to the floor when tightened down. Set the straps to pull towards or away from each other and you could change the distance between the hubs as the floor would flex. I'm not sure many would have measured square and true across the diagonals by the time thy hit the dealership.

That would have been called a "£20 quid" in the ashtray special back in the day. I once managed to get a ticket on a s2 land rover that way with a mostly fibreglass chassis! I swapped it for 2 tonnes of coal. Ah, the good old days.

@BleachDemon99

Ай бұрын

I charge a oner these days

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

I think I'd have gone for the coal, too! (Love the Nimrod btw)

In my yoof I was into Metros, some of which I bought for £100-200. But absolutely have not taxed anything as bad as this Saxo.

honestly Adam wicket has a mint mint mint 106 independence shell so I'd recommend grabbing that and swap everything to the orange 106

Just like others have said, report the MOT station to VOSA or whoever it is these days, I did that once when I had issues with a recent purchase and it worked. The station got shut down and never traded again, seems I wasn't the first person to report them either after talking with locals here.

@secretsquirrel6124

Ай бұрын

You mean DVSA , VOSA doesn't exist anymore

@Rich-westy7

Ай бұрын

@@secretsquirrel6124 Which is why I said "or whoever it is these days", please read posts properly .

inform the dvsa even though you only have 90 days to appeal on the basis of corrosion but that is exceptional i am an ex examiner and i would suggest your not the only one they have manipulated and waited til the time is up before selling

The french complain about their MOT equivalent. I live in france and I like it, I just wish it was yearly not every two years. The big difference from the UK system. Test centers are only test centers, no repair facility. They have a Suspension testing rig that would have colaplsed this car. If your car has a minor fail, you have 2 months to fix it, not keep off the road for say headlight out, frayed seatbelts. If its a dangerous wreck that you obviously knew about and should not be on the road they are duty bound and probably will call the police if you try and drive it home.

Well at least is lasted for some reasonabke length of time before rusting out, my Aunties 56 plate KA was only on the road for 10 years before rust got it.

That is shocking! The MOT definitely has M. Mouse signing it off! On another note, there's a fairly stripped BX in Albert Looms scrapyard in Derby, and they shut up shop for good on the 8th of June so if you're close go have a gander!

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Doubt I'll get a chance to get up there, but will spread the word. Cheers.

I have seen some bad things fella, Two stories are from a metro forum years ago. One lad had this red GTI, He was doing it up the bodywork etc. People said he did a great job etc. Anyway, the lad sold the car to a forum member, who was going to use it as a rally car. When they got into dismantling it, and getting it ready for prep. The car turned out to be a nasty death trap, The lad had been artist with filler and rivets, rear seatbelt mounts had been riveted back in, and smoothed over with filler, a brake line bolted through the floor. One pull and the seat belt mount just came off, and when they got under, and decided to have a tapper rul. They discovered, that it was just full of filler, they photo grafted it all and shamed the fella. They took what was useable and bought a better shell. The lads on the forum were shocked to hell to see, what looked a nice restoration job, turn out to be a nasty nightmare. Another story, another lad who was selling a Highly powered metro, That car had right old hard time, as he was a boy racer. It had failed its MOT badly, and then all of a sudden it passed, with no advisories at all. The buyer who bought it, He was "supposedly going to use it as a track car, but he used to play about, and break them etc) He decided to lift the carpet up, and he got an almighty shock, the full floor was orange with rust, to the point it should have been scrap! The engine also blew a piston ring on him too, while he moved it to the unit. He really did shame the lad, with a stack load of photos. The lad argued the toss with him, on the forum, but didn't have a leg to stand on, due to the photos, and the MOT. A few people sort of said " you knew it was a shed, why did you buy it" so there was some uproar about it. The buyer reported the Garage for the bent MOT, and just cut his losses with the car. He didn't even bother to break it, from what i remember. With the engine been buggered, and the body was scrap, he couldn't really make anything on it. I do think to this day, that the seller got a bent MOT on it, as he knew who was buying the car, and what was going to happen to it anyway, as i mentioned before, the buyer never put a metro on the road at all, and just played around, Building up the car, then selling the bits off etc. So the car wasn't going to go on the road again, but i think the seller didn't expect it to back fire. The buyer nicked named the car a pill. Sad that two lads got bumped big style, the positive thing out of it, is that the two cars didn't get sold as family cars and got destroyed.

Watched this vid...jumped in my 2001 106. At my destination opened the boot. Checked along the edges of the floor... Everything fine... Phew!!!! (Why this order, you ask... Well i watched till the end and was almost late to catch the train... But i was on time after all...)

how can an mot tester miss probably the #1 place these and peugeot 106's rot away?

I guess everything can be a learning experience even for a guy thats been around the block a few times. Bummer.

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Yeah, like I say I'm sure plenty of Saxos or 106s have self-lowered before, I've just never seen it. Was an eye opener!

Car mag in Finland, at least used to have stories based on real accidents. Parts were somewhat fictional, the lead into the accident. One that I remember, was a case of an older japanese car. Done up real neat, new paint and so on. The finnish MOT went through fine, allegedly the officer was worried poking holes into the car. It looked nice, but lot of places where metal should have been.. Something less rigid. It ended in fatal car crash, partially affected by inexperienced driver.. but mostly because the structure gave in. Read it as a kid, and it stuck with me. Mind you.. I did get my car through MOT ( or Tüv ) without anyone checking it out really. I took it to a garage to get sorted right. You could see that one corner was low, just by looking at the bloody thing. Got it back with fresh stamp, nothing done, nothing to complain.. Took it directly to other place, and got suspension mount and brakes done right. I could have driven it legally, but.. just no..

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

The only person your cheat if you get a moody MoT, is yourself.

you would need to contact VOSA they would then arrange an inspection but now you have done remedial work to it they cant do anything about it.

Rust in rear of Saxo / 106 is very common. 206, C3 & Xsara Picasso rot the sills out as well.

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Don't forget the 306 at the top of the rear arches...

This is just a standard Saxo/106 thing and can't always be easy to spot from underneath on MOTs. My Ax had a fresh mot on and that had gone the same

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

That's fair enough, from underneath I appreciate it'd be difficult to see this, but the size of the hole in the arch; the hole in the rear chassis rail and crispiness along the walls of the boot? I'm really not sure.

About 12 years ago I became aware of a mechanic living quite close to me who was doing bent MOT's. Rather worrying I think.

I've had 2 saxos and had same problem on both.

This reminds me of the garage that was about to send me off on my merry way in a Beetle with a rusted out frame head and a safety steering column where the safety portion of it was close to snapping. I was not impressed.

It'll be fine, the shocks will stop the subframe ripping out...

There's a reason we always used to say "never buy French" or NBF

See it through? Mate it's already see-through 🤣

@Zadster

Ай бұрын

With a hole that big, it should be a Polo!

Who did the MOT? I want to take my old Combo van there.... 😂😂

I know that 106's have the same problem with the rear axles but do they also have this problem too?

@UPnDOWN

19 күн бұрын

What, rust? Very much so! Same shell, same issues.

@jaggass

19 күн бұрын

@@UPnDOWN The boot floor issue?

How much is a Saxo without an engine?

I never knew the saxo had a height adjustable boot floor as standard😂😂 seriously through thats shocking, defo the tester has been bribed by someone to give them a pass for a bit extra. I remember the days of handwriten certificates working for a big chain dealer in the insurance division that when a staff member needed their car MOT'd that a certain member of staff (who was the mailman) would produce a MOT Certificate and stamp it.... If you go on marketplace you tend to find it worse people just scamming people to get a £100 straight Pass MOT, when they pay, you don't get anything apart from being scammed....

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

If people are willing to pay £100 for a straight pass no-look MoT, they deserve to be scammed IMO!

I wonder how much the mot station actually see of the car , I would report to the DVLA , but great project for the kids

I want a video of you taking it back to the garage that tested it or a phone call video uploaded!

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Haha!

@K666_ANB

Ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN go on lad, let's see or hear them explain this diabolical mot 😂

Its crazy as thats an easy fix, I had a 1.1 Citroen saxo east coast that had the whole left arch rotten,Had to weld it without a mask too on a sunday night, car was up the next morning.,Got it done and it was sorted

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

True, it's a very quick easy fix if you're not fussed about how it looks.

15:42 Ha! Trainspotterrrrrrrrrrrr! (Jokes. Am also a “trainspotter”. One who has a rather big camera and stands in fields and on bridges. And endures the question “Summat comin m8?” from norms all the time)

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Ha! I'm not really a 'trainspotter' as such, I just remember reading what EMU and DMU (and DEMU) all were when I was younger in various books I got bought. That said, I do like watching them on YT and if I happen to see them out and about, mainly for the noise and smells. Something about old railways really calms me down, no idea what it is! Just always seems so peaceful.

Unfortunately I think this was just overlooked maybe could’ve been hard to see from underneath as there were quite a few advisories regarding under sealing repairs and corrosion on the last mot that hole could’ve been bodged with something on its last mot that has since come detached

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

It's certainly possible, but for me it's either negligence or foul play. Or both. You can't miss this, and if you do you can't be an MoT tester. Human side of me wonders if it was a bloke who was having a very bad day, mentally.

You missed the clue when bidding for the Mini. The sellers ID reads 'I'm a messer'

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Ha! Yeah, it's almost like I wrote that... ;-p

Honestly I'm glad our Australian cars don't rust like UK cars. Guessing it's due to no salt and stuff on our roads.

If you phone Dartford Crossing and it's your first offence you may be allowed to pay just the Crossing fee

Them saxos are known to rot, I had one T reg and I was daily having it welded, least the engine was okay but not the best

I drove a Peugeot 106! Is it like this, because they look similar!

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

Saxo and 106 are the same car, underneath.

You went to sunny Thurrock and didnt say hello? you should personally say hello to local channel members

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

I've let the side down!

@grantp7975

Ай бұрын

​@@UPnDOWN well, better that than letting the back down...

I haven't seen a Saxo in years. Forgot they existed.

@UPnDOWN

Ай бұрын

I would too, if I didn't trip over them every day!