me again, thanks for the info just latley, i hope some remember my other thread on this xr2i to resto or to scrap??

well after an mot fail! on a few things my other half took it all apart today, and he is a bit confused with what the mot man has said?
as when he was looking around he can only find 3 bad parts that need looking at,(pics to follow) and not the whole floor as suggested by mr mot! also mot says that the offside seat belt anchorage is really corroded?? but we cant see it?? nor can we find the really bad corrosion on the subframe mountings??

have a look at these pics, and if poss some advise to how bad this really is? as my other half thinks not so bad and mr mot is lazy and not looking right!

ok so this is of the drivers side front seat bolt thing bit holeeee! but im sure can work with it not so bad underside

and this is just to the right of the go go pedal and down a bit

(also in this pic going off track abit, we found a button thing? well it springs back when pushed and was mounted onto the plastic kick panel any ideas? havent taken dash out yet as looks like it goes up there?)


ok now this one is of the inside looking out of the drivers side wheel arch at the very bottom, other side is good and looks like a bung of some sort need welding in??


passanger side one looks like rust but its just some yellow stuff still nice and solid this side?(she says for now!!)


and a few of the rest of the inside if you dont mind reading on a bit more

rest looks like this really not bad i think







this is how the drivers side should look


you can see that at some point someone has jacked it up on the drivers side on the floor!!!?? so will need a bash!
but i think on the plus side my dad and my partner should be ok with trying to save it for me,

will look at the subframe mounts better tomoz.

but was was mr mot man on about, with the seat belt corrosion?? as both sides are good just the drivers seat bolt bit, also no mention on the mot of the other holes? should there be?

big question is, is it really that bad???

any comments welcome, i have read a few threads now and am ready for the good and bad

 

you simply need to weld a big bit of new metal into where the seat belt/mounting thread is to be able to keep the bolt hole connected to the rest of the car in the event of an accident

 

which i would do if there was a hole in the seat belt bit, but the bit thats rusty only has the seat bolted to it, or is it still called the seatbelt anchorage? even tho the seat is the only thing bolted to it???

as the seatbelt parts on ther car are all good, and bolts to the side of the car not the floor?

 

there's a thing that there shouldn't be any rust within a certain area of any structural point of the car, so that's what it needs to be listed as on the failure sheet

no one will pass it as it is

 

ahh i see, im with you now so he is right in putting what he put, my bad,

and oh yes i know it would not pass but was confused as to the re-test sheet, and what we found

 

Not bad at all, when your car looks like mine did, then start to worry:



Glad to report it's back to full health

for a proper idea, you need to get a good look underneath the car also. It is fixable easily though by the looks of it, some parts you may be well to cut them from other cars in scrap yards if your prepared to go to they lengths or just fabricate metal plates up to fit in place and make your own bolt fixings etc.