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MrPDude

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Just bought this discovery a month or so ago. On the advert it mentioned the welding was done, and regarding the rear doors, this is the case. I checked my boot floor and this is what i have found. The car was sold to me with over 11 months MOT. Meaning that it has just had one done. This sort of damage cannot appear over the space of a month.

What are the chances that the MOT has been done poorly or in a dodgy manner and there are other potential land mines that i am going to find?








 
My discos boot was like that when i got it... and it passed its MOT about 2 hours before I collected it. we just ripped the old boot floor out and replaced it with a shiny new one
 
Got a replacement from paddocks.

My main concern regarding MOT was the rust near the pasenger seatbelt mounts. Check the pics again. The rust is ON the offside seatbelt mount
 
Seatbelts are fixed to chassis, not floor.
Also tester is not allowed to lift carpet and so on.
 
as treworgey said, The fixing bolt for the belt mount just passes through the boot panel and bolts to a universal joint which in turn is bolted to the chassis
 
Lol i took the foam out and lay it on the drive in the sun to try and dry it out some. Sufficed to say it was soggy as hell.

Drove to the shops without the foam in place. Athough it soaks up water, it also does a damn good job of soaking up sound. Was like i was driving round with the boot door wide open
 
i Screwed all my foams to the side of the garage, on a wall that gets the sun for the majority of the day so that they could drip off and dry.

Im going to seal them somehow when they are fully dry I think painting the foam will do the trick. so it doesn't absorb water but it does absorb sound.

I would recommend you also remove the centre and front floor foams as well. if the boot foam was sopping.. it would have rolled down the car and got all others wet as well. As was the case with mine.
 
Get down the poundshop and buy up all their camping mats. spread em out and glue em together do 2 layers and over lap the joints. Then cut to shape of foam and throw ya old foam away. good bye sponge Hello waterproof soundproofing
 
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