MOT time again... ouch
Suddenly realized last week that the MOT on the Amazon must have run out, and so it had, right back at the beginning of April. I'd been stuck in the house with a nasty bug for much of that time, which was probably why it didn't occur to me.
Quickly booked it in with Noddy (who was the main mechanic at South Service, before it/Tony Barrett moved out to the wilds of Hackney), who said i could bring it over the next day.
Anyway, to cut a long story, it failed the MOT for the first time in, mainly down to rust -- where the wings met the sill, around the selt-belt mounts, and on the drivers' floor.
Cue a bill for £700-worth of welding from the guy down a dozen arches down from Noddy (and that was without even getting it properly painted) who has done bodywork on it before. Even Noddy thought that was a bit steep, and said he'd have called around a bit if he'd known it was going to be that much.
Still it made me think a bit about what I was going to do with the bodywork. I've had the car 18 years now, and it's starting to look pretty tatty in places -- a nasty rust bubble over one of the wheel arches, and some very tarnished paint in places, the roof especially. Plus, all the usual knocks and scrapes you get from being parked on a London street.
Possibly time to give Lance at Romance of Rust a call. Jules reckons he's pretty good, and Noddy had losts of good things to say about him too. I'm thinking maybe it's time for a little bit of a look -- maybe smoothing it it a bit, possibly slightly dechroming it. Or maybe not.
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