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Will this now fail the MOT?
« on: July 30, 2006, 18:22:22 »
Decided I was being waaaay too careful with the car on sat at the Birthday Bash. Result is that I now hand a noticeable dent in one of the sills.

On a Monoque this would easilly be an MOT failure but I'm not sure f it is on this, any ideas?

I'm tempted to take the sill protector off, bash it to a shape that the protector hides, or even drill the dent and pullt it out,then put the protector back on.

If its an MOT failure, will a new sill do the job? Can you even get them?
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2006, 16:34:19 »
You should be able to get a non genuine outer sill from your local panel factor. Should be around £20 or £25 at the most. If you struggle, drop me a PM.
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2006, 19:19:48 »
you got pix richard?

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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2006, 21:14:13 »
Will get some tomorrow, might take th sill protector off at lunch time. If it wast for it pushing it out of line you'd never know.
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2006, 22:33:40 »
if its only dented it it shud be ok rich gen-X has had a big dent in her sill for 4 yrs now and never had any probs at all .
theres even a hole from when i kicked off axle stands and one went into the underside of the sill

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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2006, 23:12:02 »
Assuming that you have a separate chassis (ladder or back bone etc.) then a damaged sill should not be a problem as it is not structural.

They could however fail it on 'sharp edges'.

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« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2006, 08:00:14 »
theres no hole, just a dent. You've all said what I was thinking though so thanks guys.

Rich
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