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My daily is the silver one, I fancy the black Quattro but they are crazily complex so I will prbably bottle it.
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Nivomats are proper money to buy.
You might have been better off - washing the oil off them before you took the car for a test!
Easy to say after the fact
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I've my eyes open for your rear window, it's in my head.
I'd still be driving my 1996 Volvo 940, if Wife hadn't written it off.
Although the V70 does fly..
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Nivomats are proper money to buy.
You might have been better off - washing the oil off them before you took the car for a test!
Easy to say after the fact
There's a thought...
We'll see what French MOT man says Friday...
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These Nivomats have a rubber boot on them (that is how you tell they are Nivomats).
Would not be impossible to clean them up. Passing a retest maybe a bit difficult as you have had a fail.
But clean them up - put some used car paint on them - write "V70" in bright yellow paint on them - this would convince most dumb UK testers you have invested in some used shocks.
Not sure how strict they are for "CT" testing in France. Fairly stict I would guess as testing is every two years?
I don't really get the French rules for MOT testing - floating tests 6months around car sales - emissions testing every year for commercial vehicles - it seems too complicated for me.
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I have a soft spot for old Audis, quattro gear boxes aside I don't think they are too complicated the BMW E61 I have now makes the Audi B4 quattro coupe I had twenty years ago look like child's play. It was comparatively easy to see what everything does, yes a bit daunting after a string of BL A series and Ford Kent motors but you have your head around the FWD Audi so should not be a problem.
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Please do not encourage me to buy it
The spheres are £250 + per corner, the pipes, sensors, valves etc seem to be unavailable, it's like a German version of the Citroen green sphere suspension I think. I had a '73 CX , no problems at all.
The difference is there are lots of Citroen specialists, owners clubs, all parts on the shelf, but almost nothing for old Audis in comparison.
And yes as you say the Quattro drivetrains look a bit tricky.
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A nephew of mine had a Quattro saloon and decided he was going to overhaul the suspension - until he discovered it was going to cost iirc £1k per corner for parts, and that wasn't yesterday!
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Hum good point about spares availability or lack of it, that is one good thing with BMW they have great support for the older cars. For amusement one quite day I went back in the BMW on line parts catalogue looking for the oldest car I could find any parts listed, it was a 1950's bubble car, admittedly only three or four engine parts were listed as available for it but I was impressed.Please do not encourage me to buy it
The spheres are £250 + per corner, the pipes, sensors, valves etc seem to be unavailable, it's like a German version of the Citroen green sphere suspension I think. I had a '73 CX , no problems at all.
The difference is there are lots of Citroen specialists, owners clubs, all parts on the shelf, but almost nothing for old Audis in comparison.
And yes as you say the Quattro drivetrains look a bit tricky.
day to day the test requirements are pretty much the same, technically they test the same things as we do, same basis, same advisories, etc, no real difference in the actual test itself. Aye, valid for 2 years instead of 1 with the pollution check but only if it's registered as a commercial or company vehicle, test takes 5 minutes, but is still 35 euros....
The car sales thing is if the test is more than 6 months old, you automatically have to retest prior to selling / buying, which is a pretty decent idea if your the buyer, at least you know what you've got on that day, no more value than anything else really.....other than that, nothing really different from the uk..
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Thanks for the reply - good info!
When the UK MOT test regime was debated from going from - 3/1/1 to 4/2/2
I did look online to see what the rest fo Europe was doing. France seems to have a differing MOT regime to the rest of Europe. Not sure what "CT testing" stands for?
In the UK - with MOT testing suspended for 6 months (CV19) - you wanna see the tyre failures - it is extreme. Two year testing could not work here.
In Europe they are better at looking after cars than we are in the UK. That is a fact...
I have worked in Spain in workshops - cars and lorries. The customers are just more willing to pay and have a good vehicle that will not let them down. I think it is about population density more than anything - they have to travel further to get anything - see anybody!
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this thread - it is about MOT testing - not Brexit or CV19 - even thou it mentions "Europe". It is about cars/testing...CT is just Controle Technique which is the equivalent of the Minister Of Transport Test.......
aye generally the shells seem to be less affected by rust here, and you regularly see old 70"s cars like Renault 4's etc still in daily use especially down here.... There is still rust though, probably not as much as you see daily though.. Coastal regions etc...
aye generally the shells seem to be less affected by rust here, and you regularly see old 70"s cars like Renault 4's etc still in daily use especially down here.... There is still rust though, probably not as much as you see daily though.. Coastal regions etc...
