Trying to get up the nerve to take it for MOT.

[selectedgrub]

A Jago jeep or similar once flipped on its side right in front of me under slight braking when it was driving to have it’s first MOT after being built!

 

[Morrisman]

A Jago jeep or similar once flipped on its side right in front of me under slight braking when it was driving to have it’s first MOT after being built!

That sounds like some serious failure of design.

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way…

Born to be mild!

Do you not have a tame Mot tester round your way?

The guy I used to use for my Morris is on the far side of town, which entails crawling through crowded roads to get there. He is into old cars, and knows his stuff though.

 

[Wallace]

That sounds like some serious failure of design.

The guy I used to use for my Morris is on the far side of town, which entails crawling through crowded roads to get there. He is into old cars, and knows his stuff though.

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He would be my choice. Car looks great.

 

[Melvyn Best]

Just drive it, you have to at some stage.
I broke down on my way to SVA with my Locost, the car lost power and started to emit black smoke from the exhaust, pulled into a layby and took the bonnet of , couldnt see anything obvious so restarted the engine all seemed OK so I carried on with no problems just keeping the speed down a bit. The car was tested and passed but on the way home I was pulled over by a motorcycle cop who seemed a bit put out when i said with a grin "It was bound to happen as I didn't have any number plates , but then again I don't have a registration number" I produced my licence , insurance that had the VIN number and my pass certificate explained that I could legally drive to and from an SVA test with no number plates . All he said was nice car but I bet you get pulled again before you get home
Realised when I got home what the cause of the breakdown was , it was very cold and the carb stuck through the bonnet and had frozen

 

[slim_boy_fat]

just check all your nuts etc

All present and accounted for

A Jago jeep or similar once flipped on its side right in front of me under slight braking when it was driving to have it’s first MOT after being built!

Aye, go on, bolster his confidence

Needs to be stored. A good excuse to extend your workshop sideways

Settle down, now.

 

[Morrisman]

I would put a nicer sleeve on the cable coming out of the chequer plate though

I have some split sheathing to go round there, but there's still some tidying and cable tying of wires to do.

 

[Joe 90]

It’s been on the road before, fully registered on a Q plate, but i’ve had it torn into a gazillion pieces and reworked so much... built my own brake system, fitted a different steering box... reworked suspension.... the worry is that something will fail or fall apart...... maybe I’ll die in a burning fireball......on the way to MOT.

I did all the copper bits, and stuff like that, inspired by @selectedgrub

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If its been modified that much from sva you need to make sure its done properly and to sva standards, which won't be checked for mot. You said you changed steering box, for example the joint in the steering column has to be at a certain angle so it collapses in an accident and doesn't spear through you. Seat belt mount heights etc all important.
To many people modify these vehicles after the sva and then someone is killed. I remember a case were both people in the kit car broke their necks due to seat and seat belt changes. At SVA test photos is usually taken for proof.
That big exposed nut in the centre of the steering wheel couldn't have passed. That's a sure way to kill yourself in an accident.

 

[Morrisman]

If its been modified that much from sva you need to make sure its done properly and to sva standards, which won't be checked for mot. You said you changed steering box, for example the joint in the steering column has to be at a certain angle so it collapses in an accident and doesn't spear through you. Seat belt mount heights etc all important.
To many people modify these vehicles after the sva and then someone is killed. I remember a case were both people in the kit car broke their necks due to seat and seat belt changes. At SVA test photos is usually taken for proof.
That big exposed nut in the centre of the steering wheel couldn't have passed. That's a sure way to kill yourself in an accident.

It’s not been through SVA, it was built in 1985 long before SVA was invented.

The nuts not an issue. Not compared to the solid steel steering shaft bolted rigid and ready to pierce my sternum..... there is no steering join, no collapsible column either. It’s the same setup the car always had, just a Landrover steering box instead of the old hacked up Anglia unit.

 

[bricol]

Its the obvious things that usually trip you up - like those headlights look way too low.

One guy I used to go to went by the book and would go look things up - he once asked a mate if he would just take the car away if he didn't charge him . . . the guy I go to now usually insists the car attends the testing location . . . and thats all I'm going to say.

But he knows me and my cars - he sometimes dances a little jig if he finds something to mention

 

[Morrisman]

Not sure what the minimum light height is for a pre ‘73 car, which is apparently the age group Q reg cars are tested to. (ETA, unless you mean the angle, they aren’t tightened up yet)

And yes, I also used to know a guy who would do an MOT over the phone, many years ago.....

 

[Morris]

Minimum height for dipped beam is 500mm, no minimum for the main according to the current BIVA manual.
Those lights look fine, a lot of sports stuff is lower.
I've just looked at the MOT manual, only mention of height is for testing lights either over or under 850mm high.

 

[Melvyn Best]

Unless things have changed the height of headlights is not a testable item during an MOT test , it's probably covered by construction and use regulations like a lot of other items

 

[daf45]

Are we nearly there yet??

 

[Munkul]

That's such a cool car!

Hope it's got that test booked, and you have no excuse but to drive it A decent fire extinguisher is all you really need... any other problem you should pick up on the way there...

You're not going to find problems until you drive it, one way or another. good luck

 

[CompoSimmonite]

hope it goes better than when I rebuilt my car, and I took my car for its MOT on the last day of the month. I had my insurance, but needed the MOT to get the road tax. to say I was nervous driving to the MOT was an understatement as it but the car was booked in as it was on Sorn. so I went to the garage to pick it up at 4pm but then realised that I had the wrong insurance docs to get the road tax. so I got my brother in law to print it out and bring it to me, just in time for me to get a new tax disc from the post office which closed 20 minutes later. and I managed to get the road tax with a couple minutes to spare. so I then went to pick up my car and it seemed to be hard changing gear, and on the drive home I broke down on a roundabout as it was in neutral and I wasn't able to get any gear. I then realised there was something wrong with the gearbox mount, which turned out that I had used a 40mm instead of a 50mm washer to hold the bushing in place and the back of the gearbox had dropped. so I called the breakdown services to drag it home. While I was waiting to be recovered the police turned up, and I think I was an easy target for him as when he checked, my car had no MOT, no insurance and no tax. my answer to that was have you seen the tax disk in the window. This is the time that sticking to the rules works for you as I wonder how many other people would have paid a full months road tax just to drive the 2 miles home on the last day of the month. So my car was all legal but then he decided that I needed to fit a grill on the front of my car due to the injury it might cause to someone if I knocked them over and he would seize my car if he was it without one in future. We he hadnt seem my car for the previous 8 years that I hadn't been running without a grill since I had a little bump in it, and a standard grille wouldnt fit so thats the reason I have a triumph herald one on my car.

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when I said rebuilt, the car still looked like a wreck, but underneath it was a bit tidier as it went from this

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to this

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ohh and you'll be fine but I think MOT's drive fear into most of us at one time or another.

I had a five year old breadvan Polo GIVEN to me It belonged to a neighbour who must have ****** somebody off as every panel was damaged. They came to PX it against a LWB Shogun only to be told they would get a better deal if it was scrapped hence given to me. I had if for many years and only thing I did to bodywork was change the offside wing as that was a bit too mangled. Even did several tips to Belgium and it was bullet proof.

 

[Morrisman]

That's such a cool car!

Hope it's got that test booked, and you have no excuse but to drive it A decent fire extinguisher is all you really need... any other problem you should pick up on the way there...

You're not going to find problems until you drive it, one way or another. good luck

And drive it I did, this very evening. Just a quick run round the small block where I live, after dark, that turned into a ride around the village. Everything worked, gears shifted, brakes did that brakey thing, butI never really stood on them hard.

The steering wanders, feels pretty loose. I think it needs more castor.

I passed a guy in a Porsche. Flew past him.... like he was stood still.....

He was parked down a dark entrance to a lane, with his bonnet up. I went back after in my daily driver, to see what was up, helped him change a flat tyre.

 

[Morrisman]

Passed MOT this morning, with flying colours.

No problems, tiny bit of play in one kingpin, but nothing to worry about, I was told.

 

[My Old Landy]

Passed MOT this morning, with flying colours.

No problems, tiny bit of play in one kingpin, but nothing to worry about, I was told.

Brilliant news! It certainly looks the dogs danglies

 

[Munkul]

Awesome!

 

[Robbie260]

Awww dam we now have too go stand down all the fire parties.

Great new knew It would pass.