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1. MOT failure (score: 1): Author: John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 07:53:26 -0700 (PDT); I just had my car MOTed and she failed :-( This time it was both the sills that have started rusting from the back, I was expecting this as I had noticed they were looking quite flakey. The garage ha; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00413.html (8,072 bytes)
2. RE: MOT failure (score: 1): Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>; Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:19:12 +0100; My sympathies - one of the annual events that tries the tolerance of the most dedicated Spitfire driver in the UK... done at this price will be a cosmetic repair only, it won't really add back the f; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00416.html (9,758 bytes)
3. RE: MOT failure (score: 1): Author: John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:45:20 -0700 (PDT); I'm thinking that I may go for the #80 to get me through the MOT and repaint the sill myself at home. I know it is not an ideal fix, but if only the back is rusty then I should get back a fair bit of; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00418.html (10,997 bytes)
4. RE: MOT failure (score: 1): Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>; Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:52:02 +0100; Under the circumstances I think that's the right thing to do - when your car is starting to feel like a money pit (and they all do occasionally) you don't want to keep making it worse! Patch it up a; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00422.html (8,333 bytes)
5. RE: MOT failure (score: 1): Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>; Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:39:23 -0400; The outer sill skin doesn't contribute to strength, it's the inner or center sill panel that does that. Not that sill strength is much of an issue on a backbone framed car like a Spitfire anyhow. The; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00426.html (7,936 bytes)
6. Re: MOT failure (score: 1): Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>; Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:54:20 +0100; I think we all of us feel like that at some point. Only you can really decide whether that is the correct decision, but, from what you say, you've fixed most of the expensive bits already. You and I; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00427.html (8,183 bytes)
7. Re: MOT failure (score: 1): Author: John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:14:56 -0700 (PDT); I just took a closer look at the sill after getting the car back tonight and the rust is not quite as bad as I had first feared. It is more the rear wing at the bottom of the b post that is the very; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00429.html (10,191 bytes)
8. Re: MOT failure (score: 1): Author: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>; Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:13:45 +0100; MOT guys can be a bit stiff on this sort of rust. particularly if it is within 30cm of a suspension mount and or seat belt point. unfortuately the base of the rear wing if both! Cheers tim (In MOT la; /html/spitfires/2002-05/msg00446.html (11,169 bytes)

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