Wednesday 01-03-06 was the day that I had to go to the dreaded MOT because I absolutely want my car to be able to drive to the NBR with Easter.

What I feared, has become reality with the new stinking laws of 15-02-06 --> FORBIDDEN FOR TRAFFIC for the following reasons:




The condition of the roads was inhumane that morning; snow, snow, snow and even more snow while the car NEVER sees any winter at all. :bigcry:

While driving back from the MOT through the snow, it eventually took it's toll on the front spoiler/splitter combo:




So not only "forbidden for traffic" which simply means that I can not drive the car for whatever reason, but also my carbon splitter in a couple of pieces. :bigcry: :bigcry:

Why did the car fail it's MOT, you might ask.
Suspensions rubbers --> Powerflex polybushes
Front bumper --> not having 11cm groudn clearance
Gearstick --> 1-2-3-4-5-R missing
Brake discs --> drilled and grooved
Non original exhaust --> Mongoose 3" in stainless without cat
Airfilter --> K&N Group A airfilter
Non original steering wheel --> Momo 32cm steering wheel because of my long legs

I won't say a thing about the 2nd page because the first alinea is completely standard stuff !!! I will be making a phone call to the MOT station tomorrow to ask why I had to pay € 70,00 (SEVENTY EURO).

Even more funny is that some things on the 2nd page are ranked as A-B-C while those are things that are allowed and then they still print them on the 1st page with "failures which lead to a new MOT"
To cut a long story short --> I've got an unsafe car.

After some phoning about between my garage and the MOT station in Aalst where my car was first registered from Germany, my garage got the OK for everything bar the steering wheel and exhaust.

I can live with the steering wheel BUT the steering wheel that has been installed is E-approved according to my knowledge so they have to agree to that. Even though, it won't be a problem if I have to put the original back in as I still have that laying about.

The exhaust however is worse --> they DEMAND at the MOT that the car should be having the standard Ford exhaust with cats. So I asked my dealership to price me one --> € 2261,07 (+/_ £ 1500) :shock: :shock:
But what's the "funny" part of all this --> the cat part and the downpipe from the turbo are not available no more.

I also think that pre 1993 cars can run without a cat IF the CO is low enough (my car runs 0,30% CO on tickover which is low enough so I just need a piece of paper that the Mongoose is specificly designed for my car and I need to find the part of pre 1993 online on some Belgian Government site.

And to top it all up --> I found this nice puddle of oil on my car while putting it back in the garage. Could that be coming from my filler cap? And if so, how come???