MOT Quicky

[daveyravey]

Are the disco inner wings classed as load bearing these days ?

[Iain C]

Not judging by the state of mine and my nice new MOT sheet! :lol:

[daveyravey]

Are your's quite bad ?

[Iain C]

Let's just say they are "sub optimal..."

In fairness I have not seen any others so I have nothing to compare them to, but they do have holes in!

[daveyravey]

By the sound of it, mine are minted   :lol:  :lol:

[hobbit]

Some of this problem can be down to the tester really, generally you should be ok, but if it headlight mountings, battery plate mountings etc, it may be a different ball of wax

[daveyravey]

Yeah, i know where you're coming from Hobbit.
It's where it slopes down towards the bulkhead that's rusty.

[cardiff_gareth]

It will fail the MOT.

Drivers side has the master cylinder right by it and also the brake pipes run along it. Passenger side has something on it, I can't remember what it was but again will fail.

Mine did and I had to weld em up, nice job, it was lovely :(

[hobbit]

Inner wing welding is a doddle on these anyway

Just pop the door off and unbolt the wing, will clear a way to access the whole inner wing from the outside

I had to replace the whole corner of the headlight/battery tray and body mount from the corner of the rad round to the front turret, not a lot of cutting, also repaired the holes round from the turret to the door pillar

[daveyravey]

Inner wing welding is a doddle on these anyway

Just pop the door off and unbolt the wing, will clear a way to access the whole inner wing from the outside

I had to replace the whole corner of the headlight/battery tray and body mount from the corner of the rad round to the front turret, not a lot of cutting, also repaired the holes round from the turret to the door pillar

Yeah, doesn't seem much to that job. All landy's bolt together.
Disco's are still kinda new to me, even though i served my time on old series Landy's. Usually with a liberal covering of dung   :lol:

[Wanderer]

You will find that different testers have differing views when it come to some areas of the vehicles.
You can only suck it and see or speak to someone that has used the same station and/or tester.

Ed

[gtomo2]

i just bolted some metel plate onto the inner wing as mine had gone were it meets up to the side and it passed the mot as the mot man said it was not strutural? think thats how its spelt :oops:

[RichardM]

If it has ABS then there is stuff to do with that on the passenger side inner wing (there might be brake stuff there even if it hasn't got ABS). It should fail the MOT if there is corrosion within a certain distance (can't remember what), but as others have said it's not a difficult place to learn to weld...better than lying on your back patching holes in the sill....