Hi,
Just had an MOT failure due to:
Nearside front/Offside rear suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.A.2)
Does anyone know if this is a major job and costly? The guy said there was at least a foot long of pretty bad corrosion on one side...
Any help appreciated
What car is it?
Mike
Anything on a Bentley's a major job & expensive.
Don't you think that a few clues as the vehicle and age might help?
it'll help what vehicle this equates to.
Can't imagine it would be cheap on _anything_
(But I do have to wonder about the cluefulness of anyone who can ask this without posting any details of the vehicle)
at least a hundred quid, but if one side is like that now .....
Not a car noted for rot, so why has this one chosen to do it? Did it live in a salt mine?
GTi fans are pretty fond of their cars, so I can imagine many of them wanting to pay the couple of hundred this is likely to cost (maybe a hundred if it passed last year and it isn't _too_ bad). If the car's rotting overall though, you have to ask yourself what will be failing next year, and the year after that.
Passed last year, first failure its had in the 4 years ive had it...the MOT garage said the job was too big for them which kinda worried me tp say the least. Best to get it checked out properly if its gonna cost a fortune may be a worth an upgrade..
94 Golf GTi (MK III)
It'll be the time needed to remove any of the suspension that needs to be removed to gain access, the time to repair, and the time to replace. From my experience not many garages like to do proper reconstructive welding so it might be a costly job.
We'd really need to see exactly where the corrosion is to give an opion as to the extent of the repair needed.
adder1969 (adder1969 ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
...and even fewer know how to make a half-decent job of it.
Thanks for all your help...
Just been to a garage for a quote & all they told me was it could be =A380, could be =A3500 plus. Also reckons it needs a new wing!
Think it might be time for a new car...
I think I might get myself a cheap GTi and spend a morning doing some welding ;-)
The MK3 rots worse than the MK2 IMO. People who break VWs for a living tend to agree too.
If it's a 16V, I'll buy with no test or tax rather than see it go to the crusher.
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