Need some help with the MOT

[colin5524]

if you are welding it yourself make sure it is pure grinded metal your welding to, prep is at least 50% of a good weld,ensure there is no rust at all where your welding and you buff the plate up that your welding onto as metal sheets come with a grey coating which is oil based and mig welding hates oil. I will hopefully be doing a step by step for welding my sills which i will post in my project or possibly a seperate guide

[m1tch]

Thanks for the suggestions there guys, I am going to ask the garage that does my MOT on thursday to do the welding before they do the MOT, the whole of the car is undersealed, there is no rust any where else, which is one of the reasons why I bought the car.

It seems that the underseal has been chipped away and it just happens to have rusted, there was no advisories on last years MOT and it doesn\'t look new, but hey, it needs sorting.

Most of that damage you see there (if you can see the bent sill) was done by Kwik Fit when they for some reason jacked up the whole car on the front sill to change the rear tyres as I know it wasn\'t that wrecked when I got it lol

Anyhow, thanks for all the advice I will post up the results later

[Brett]

Garages have a habit if jacking FC\'s on the chassis stiffening bars - they are very thin and won\'t poke up with it!

If take the car to get the tyres done, tell them it must only be jacked on the front subframe or the rear diff.  Any other method of lifting on the cars floor will result in damage.

My advice would be to get tyres done at a small independant in the future - they may not be as cheap, but as a rule they are far more competant.

Regarding the rust issue:

If I were you I would do as much of the prep work as you can, leaving just the welding for the garage to do.  You don\'t want someone damaging the interior trim etc.
The trim around the footwells comes away easily as long as you are gentle.

:wave

[m1tch]

Garages have a habit if jacking FC\'s on the chassis stiffening bars - they are very thin and won\'t poke up with it!

If take the car to get the tyres done, tell them it must only be jacked on the front subframe or the rear diff.  Any other method of lifting on the cars floor will result in damage.

My advice would be to get tyres done at a small independant in the future - they may not be as cheap, but as a rule they are far more competant.

Regarding the rust issue:

If I were you I would do as much of the prep work as you can, leaving just the welding for the garage to do.  You don\'t want someone damaging the interior trim etc.
The trim around the footwells comes away easily as long as you are gentle.

:wave

All of the carpets have been up on that side already when the boost controller was fitted, so they are all loose and easy to take up, just cleaned the whole car as well

[rx7_bhp500]

..so who can recommend someone  who\'s good at seem welding then. ..!?
{chassis and pic above needs to be seem welded -right...??!}

[m1tch]

..so who can recommend someone  who\'s good at seem welding then. ..!?
{chassis and pic above needs to be seem welded -right...??!}

I currently have a welder near me who is currently doing my mini for me, will let you know how he does, think I will just ask the garage to do it this time round, will chat to them thursday before the MOT to see if they can do it, but its only a patch, its the only piece of rust on my entire car lol all caused by a chipped underseal lol booo