Hippo said:
Like checking for daylight frew the boot floor?
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My first ever car, an Austin, had a problem like that. I was driving in the rain and felt a splash of water on my mush. Discovered that there was a large fibre glass patch which had de-bonded in the passenger floor, which opened like a flap valve when driving over a puddle and fell back into place afterwards. I learned how to fix car brakes with that car, after a significant failure. The petrol tank dropped several inches when I put half a tank of petrol in - all the screws had rotted out and was leaking fuel too. It was only eight years old, had no brakes, bald tyres and no road tax but a new petrol tank which I put in. One of the headlights pointed skywards after a bus backed into it. Only cost me 60 sovs and I got six months out of it before it got scrapped. (and no flippant comments about tratters being no different please).
 
Wimblowdriver said:
My first ever car, an Austin, had a problem like that. I was driving in the rain and felt a splash of water on my mush. Discovered that there was a large fibre glass patch which had de-bonded in the passenger floor, which opened like a flap valve when driving over a puddle and fell back into place afterwards. I learned how to fix car brakes with that car, after a significant failure. The petrol tank dropped several inches when I put half a tank of petrol in - all the screws had rotted out and was leaking fuel too. It was only eight years old, had no brakes, bald tyres and no road tax but a new petrol tank which I put in. One of the headlights pointed skywards after a bus backed into it. Only cost me 60 sovs and I got six months out of it before it got scrapped. (and no flippant comments about tratters being no different please).
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Was that the A40??
 
Tax disc came in post at last 😄.

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Printed a few off internet 🙂
 

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... that I am delighted to hear that my son will at last be divorced from that awful woman he had 2 kids with and then foolishly married (at her insistence). I have marked the 17th of April on our calendar for a celebration of his freedom from the nasty deceitful, lying, grasping little trollope. :D
 
Wimblowdriver said:
If it fails, I think you are permitted to drive to a place of repair - eg your independent where you are taking it for them to look at the cog box. So long as it's not a dangerous fail item. (check the rools though)
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I checked the roolz a while back as there was an argument on here about it. You can drive it to a place of repair which I would argue a lot of the time is "home" as I fix most stuff. The indy wouldn't be fixing MOT stuff.

But the Brill news is IT PASSED!!!!!!! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
So no worries re any driving it around!!!!:):):):):)
 
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