E30 Zone

hi,took my e30 325i in for mot and my 'usual' garage were busy so i had to take it somewhere else,so im thinking im gonna get bent over at the counter and funnily enough i get a phone call at work,straight thru mr young!! happy days! just wondering how often these go straight thru these days? did yours?!! if not what did it fail on? mine failed on subframe bushes last year....

Tel

just posted about 2 mins ago on my own topic,
Mine failed as i took it to somewhere i had never been before,funny as mine failed on subframe mounts too!,how much did it cost you to sort those out?
I was expecting a clean sheet.
see below

copied from my thread:

The e30 failed her m.o.t today (£44 wasted) she was taken to Forgemotors in Cwmbran,S.Wales.
i'm pi**ed off,i have to drive around now in my old mans dirty,no wheel trims,noisy,Rovershed 200 which funnily enough passed the same day and it's a rust bucket,OH THE HUMILIATION.

she failed on:

1.headlights were aimed too low on both sides
2.shock absorber bush worn
3.nearside & offside subframe mounts worn (apparently a bit** of a job,garage wanted £250 to do it)
4.welding on the sil (a hole the size of a pea)
5.exhaust front mount bracket broken

I got the parts from Rydale Newport £45 +vat & a mate sorting out the repairs for £100.

Anyone else have a suprise M.O.T

rare e30s go straght thru these days cos of age.
i got serverly raped last year, hopefuly wont be too bad this year

Mine went straight thru too, didnt need a thing!

The last 3 mot's i've had have been straight through passes. Probably helped by the fact i only drive about 10km a week!

oguz3001 wrote:rare e30s go straght thru these days cos of age.
i got serverly raped last year, hopefuly wont be too bad this year

mabie cos ive got crome bumper wrongness

the 320 went straight through, advisory on a stone chip, front break pipe slightly corroded, break pad getting low.

just got back from the test station and it went straight thru. the only thing the bloke said was why the bloody hells the roof not down on a day like today

this year it passed without incident.
last year it failed on a front wheel bearing.
year before that was axle bushes only.

Mine flew straight through as well. Just needed the exhaust aligned after I fitted it under the car from the rebuild.
They seemed really interested in the car as well which was cool.

Had the car 3 yrs passed every time,I am lucky though as the mechanic where I work is mot trained and he makes sure it is in good order.

mine failed on some rear bushes? blue sidelights(lol),front jacking points were fooked and me rear lap belt wouldnt lock in oh the joys of motoring at least it only cost me 150 to get the bushes sorted and 30 quid for the m.o.t

mine failed last week on 2 rear tyres(not much of a surprise there) and my angel eye headlights being set on left hand drive which took 20 minutes to re set 8)which was a bonus as when i bought the car a year ago from a garage it had a duff 12 month mot as the brakes or handbrake didnt work,but i have replaced almost everything in the last year

oguz3001 wrote:rare e30s go straght thru these days cos of age.
i got serverly raped last year, hopefuly wont be too bad this year

Rubbish! Any reasonably well maintained and seviced E30 should go straight through every year. Never had one fail, except for some deliberate damage done by one crook trying to drum up business.
Anyone failing on something like a worn tyre or non working lamp deserves to loose £40 or whatever a retail MOT is these days.

thats the problem though,when your getting your first mot on a car you dont know how well its been maintained by the previous owners,i knew about my tyres but was expecting more anyway so hadnt bothered changing them,was pleasantly surprised to be honest with the result

Mine past the last 2 MOT's with no probs next one due in bout 3 months bet i have gone and jinxed myself now

Matt

mine failed first time round cos there was no side repeaters on the wings lol.

If thats the only they can find wrong result

Mine failed the last one on front jacking point (even though it's not actually a jacking point) and a front balljoint.. the next one it will fly through as most things will have been replaced and I know the car better

charlie

fuzzy wrote:thats the problem though,when your getting your first mot on a car you dont know how well its been maintained by the previous owners,i knew about my tyres but was expecting more anyway so hadnt bothered changing them,was pleasantly surprised to be honest with the result

If it failed on tyres, you were driving illegally anyway. You shouldn't even have driven it away from the test station

i wont tell if you dont brian,