Hi all

Well I am very pleased to share with you 300 series lovers that our "young lady" passed her MOT today. After a 5000 mile European tour (on the 1first day in Rennes, France, we unfortunately got rear ended, the french van was a write off, our "young lady" just took it. Barely a scratch. We were convinced that by Friday it was going to be on ebay to be sold as a spare or repair!! No, to our shock and amazement it just needed 4 new tyres, headlight adjustment and a bulb. Whoo whooo. Hope you 300 series owners have a nice experience with yours. What has yours needed this year? Hopefully very little like ours.....

Take care and all



P.S. We are going to take her to Africa for Christmas!!

cabbage340 wrote:
P.S. We are going to take her to Africa for Christmas!!

Blimey!

Love to see pics of that jaunt!

cabbage340 wrote:What has yours needed this year?

Nowt, as she's* exempt from testing

The '82** needed nowt either, oddly enough.

*the '78 Black Beauty.
**the '82 is UK-based.

mine needed nothing

New suspension top cups/bearings/mounts.

For Fake that's a huge achievement and a really good list

Africa sounds great mate! I really want to do some travelling in a car some time soon. I reckon I will go for one of those scumball rally type affairs initially though.

as for the 360, she's in pieces at the moment, but last MoT it failed on front springs dislocating (my fault for cutting them) and emissions a tiny bit too high. Removal of the air filter and standard height springs and all was well. Not bad to say prior to me buying it from a dealer with what I suspect to be a dodgy MoT it had been laid up for around 16 years!

Oh yeah, I also cleaned out the carb and fitted a new fuel pump, but that was prior to any MoT in my hands.

Mine needed a pair if wiper blades and a washer jet unblocking, not bad for 89' I guess, no rust at all either

Hi all.
Mine just needed the jacking points done.
Thats not bad for a car that will be 31 years old in January.
Cheers Mark.

hi

both of my 360's never needed anything for the mot. and hasen't for the years i have owned them. but my silver 360, will be nedding a body shop after some twat pulled out of a junction and hit the rear quarter panel...........

New coil spring (old one cracked). Changed the pair and new shocks and painted struts/inside domes while I was there...one thing leads to another! Also put in new bottom ball joints.

less than i was expecting

just needed a little welding round rear suspention stress points and a replacement number plate

Rear wheel cylinders, new rear copper hard line, H-brake cables, brake bleed. The ONLY thing I couldn't test at home were the breaks. Figures.

jon-ovlov wrote:The ONLY thing I couldn't test at home were the breaks.

Not having a go, as I mash the keyboard a lot too, but breaks are for tea. Brakes are for stopping. But you (k)new that! Damned homophones!

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