Another year - another MOT

[television]

I'm sorry to pick you up on this, but it's a personal gripe of mine. You mean ferrules. Please accept my sincerest apologies.

Pedant mode off.

Yes and thank you,,,I knew it was not the right word but my spell check could not find it

 

[Gkinghorn]

Well mine gets its MOT on Saturday ..... First one following its secondary cats being cut out .... ..WhiteNemesis are you watching?

 

[television]

Well mine gets its MOT on Saturday ..... First one following its secondary cats being cut out .... ..WhiteNemesis are you watching?

Good luck young man

 

[Blobcat]

My CBR 600 is nearly 20 years old nod has passed without issue every year. My W211 failed on it's second MOT... For the grooving on the inside edge of the front tyre

 

[television]

My CBR 600 is nearly 20 years old nod has passed without issue every year. My W211 failed on it's second MOT... For the grooving on the inside edge of the front tyre

Putting a car in for the test with faulty tyres, what ever next

 

[Blobcat]

The problem with the 211 is that the tyres are so wide that it's almost impossible to see the inside shoulder without getting it up on a lift

 

[television]

I agree its near on impossible with 285's

 

[Gkinghorn]

MOT ended up getting done today.

Sailed through the guy said..everything looked good ...

He asked if I knew the secondary cats had been cut out...i told him it was the subject of much debate about whether it would pass or not with that done... He said there was no reason to fail it since it met the emission criteria and still had cats ..never entered his mind to fail it..he just wanted me to know it had been done...

 

[w44nty]

Had my MOT on the ML yesterday,it failed on an indicator bulb,part of the orange was missing,no advisories ,not bad for a 12 year old car.

 

[Simon Barry]

I'm sorry to pick you up on this, but it's a personal gripe of mine. You mean ferrules. Please accept my sincerest apologies.

Pedant mode off.

My ferals are cats !

 

[television]

MOT ended up getting done today.

Sailed through the guy said..everything looked good ...

He asked if I knew the secondary cats had been cut out...i told him it was the subject of much debate about whether it would pass or not with that done... He said there was no reason to fail it since it met the emission criteria and still had cats ..never entered his mind to fail it..he just wanted me to know it had been done...

Nice car you have there

 

[jberks]

Just a question (not a troll, honest)...

Does passing with no advisories mean in 'x' number of years you've done nothing to the car? No repairs etc.

Or does it mean you're having things fixed at time of service when its spotted but before the MOT says its needed?

I just wonder as perhaps in the long term the fix when it fails is cheaper?

No - fixed nothing for a long time. Keep expecting something to crop up but nothing has.

 

[Gkinghorn]

Nice car you have there

It certainly is .. As you well know .... Getting a bit of a thump from drivers side rear window/roof bit when going over bumps... ( I know I shouldn't - before you tell me off! ) ..anything that could possibly need tightened slightly in that area? Might be the glass up too tight to roof I think so will try to make that stop slightly shy of it ... But anything else you can think of?

 

[television]

It certainly is .. As you well know .... Getting a bit of a thump from drivers side rear window/roof bit when going over bumps... ( I know I shouldn't - before you tell me off! ) ..anything that could possibly need tightened slightly in that area? Might be the glass up too tight to roof I think so will try to make that stop slightly shy of it ... But anything else you can think of?

I have been thinking hard on this one, my driveway is on a steep slope, getting out forces you onto the rear window sometimes,,I wonder if anything is strained, its odd as I had the car 6 years without any noises, is the sound at roof level or waist level

 

[syncropaddy]

My '94 E220 is going for her NCT (MOT) on the 4th of November!

 

[Gkinghorn]

More roof level Malcolm ... I get out look at it ...push a bit and it seems firm enough ....will take some time over weekend and see if I can get a better idea of exactly where it is .... Pretty sure it's something just needing slightly tightened somewhere or something... ..

 

[television]

I will check as soon as I can how the C pillar lining comes off

 

[Gkinghorn]

Despite cramming my son into the rear of the car to listen for noises not entirely sure we worked out what it was. all we could find was a minor metall n metal noise coming from the metal hinge joining it to the side of the roof... Opening the roof and pulling the metal against it it has some play in it ..can't get any other noise out of it really despite everything we tried... Got the torx screwdriver out to see if I could tighten it but to no avail. It's as tight as a tight Yorkshiremans wallet when out on a pub crawl ....

Might try wrapping something round it to cushion it just to see if its definitely it though... Not convinced but best guess I can make right now...

 

[dml]

I noticed this metal rattling noise on mine the other day - it stopped after a while though... I wonder if it's temperature related as by the time it stopped the cabin was nice and toasty.

 

[Mic]

I noticed this metal rattling noise on mine the other day - it stopped after a while though... I wonder if it's temperature related as by the time it stopped the cabin was nice and toasty.

It is approaching the time of year when I will be reapplying Krytox to all the rubber seals on my car and ALL points of contact when the Vario roof is up.....or down for that matter.
It is a tiresome job and takes several hours......with the roof up, roof down and partly up/down......there are lots and lots and lots of places of contact whether it be rubber on rubber, rubber on metal or metal on metal, rubber on glass.
It is supposed to be a once in a lifetime job creating a slip film for all the contact points to continue to move or rub against one another BUT silently.
I have determined to do the job annually as an iterative procedure because it is almost certain that the effect must wear off and even more certain that each year I will miss a contact point or two by virtue of my own failing.
I do it at this time of year (each of the last two years) because for the next few months the car will predominantly be driven as a coupe and the ambient temperatures will be relatively low.
Once done well the car will continue to drive as free from creaks and rattles as a fixed head coupe.

Your observations are absolutely correct in that any creaks and rattles with the Vario roof are found out or exaggerated as the ambient temperatures drop.

Mic