well another year and another failed MOT. Getting pretty sick of these now, car failed on a couple of things, was half expecting to see handbrake on there but was greeted with the following:

Nearside front steering system has a road wheel fouling a part of the vehicle (always had a slight rub when on full right lock, nothing that ever bothered me or previous MOT centres, but now seems to be a major issue...)

and emissions, but not because they were bad, but because they couldnt run the test fully because the cooling fans were not 'spinning fast enough' to provide sufficient cooling during the test. The guy had to stop short as he didnt want to over heat the car.

My MOT runs out on tuesday and i need the car for work and havent time at the weekend to sort it (god knows how ill sort the rubbage)

Its partly my fault for leaving it to late as usual but i don't know how much longer i can handle owning this sodding french box! Looking to upgrade to a cupra r but all of a sudden there are no good one available, typical.

Rant over.

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the guy said the rubbing might be because one track rod end is wound in all the way and the other all the way out, sound plausible?

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thats basically what he said, that the guy shit himself and stopped. I'm thinking ill just go back for the free retest, pull the brown fan plug so they are on full speed and thats the best i can do. No idea how to sort the rubbing wheel though

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just been out in the car to have a look at where the wheel rubs and its the front of the passenger wheel when on full right lock rubbing against the inside of the arch. Now im wondering whether this could be an incorrect power steering ram as opposed to tracking. Cant believe this has only been picked up on at an MOT now, guarantee i could take it somewhere else and it'd be fine. Shame its £50 a play.

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cool, well its going in at 3 for tracking tomorrow and then the emissions test which i will provide fan related supervision for. I had the tracking all properly done at Carls in leicester not long ago so im dubious, however, positive mental attitude and what not.

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I literally bought a rallye and took it there to get the cambelt done, didn't notice that there was different size tyres on it.

Neither did he

Carl - a personal comment - when you were smaller you were better. Customer service was better, and the level of numptys working there seemed to be smaller.

End of comments about it, hope you get it sorted

mine rubs the diff housing ever so slightly on full lock to the right

was like it when i bought it and the tracking has been recently done.

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this is ridiculous, ive just been out to check and it does rub the diff ever so slightly, does this mean i have the wrong ram? I've sorted the emissions now, I cant fail an MOT just on this surely :|

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that's not the diff...

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Bring on the Trumpets.

haha whoops, i mean't the end of the gear box

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It'll be rubbing the gear box as they all do if the steering ram has been replaced. Just put your puppy dog eyes on and say it wasn't you and hope he takes pity?

Bit of a shitter though, chin up mate

stick a jubilee clip on the r/h track rod under the boot to limit lock

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another year of care free motoring in the bag (yeah right)

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