Member Since: 27 Nov 2012
Location: Southampton
Posts: 2648
Rear upper arms - MOT Failure?
Having had a degree of rear end bump steer for sometime now I was surprised when my Discovery sailed through its MOT Test earlier this month (without any advisories)
My interpretation of bump steer is that feeling of your back end twitching when hitting uneven ground.
Anyway Geoff. & Kris (Woody32) had agreed sometime back that when they could spare a day together they will come and look at my rear end
Last Saturday they both kindly came to Southampton for the day to sort me out, my rear upper arm bushes were completely shot, every bolt needed to be cut through and when the arms were removed the rear bush (on both sides) just fell out!
Should this pass an MOT - I think not!
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To add a little more frustration what I thought was rear wheel bearing noise turned out to be about 10mm of movement in my NSF wheel bearing, worst Geoff had seen.
Nobody wants a big bill from a MOT test but I want safe cars & vans....different place next time!Paul Redding
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18th Dec 2013 10:22 am
geoff.
Member Since: 24 Jan 2010
Location: West kent
Posts: 8531
10mm play more like 25mm play
glad it feels much better steve
really can't comment how these were missed
18th Dec 2013 10:29 am
Gwiz
Member Since: 17 Feb 2012
Location: Chelmsford
Posts: 212
Ahha,
can see why you an expert on these then, if yours fell out mine must be , and it passed with advisory, so guess the air hacksaw will be in action. Graham
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