My Rallye failed her MOT last week, quoted £370 by the garage but pretty skint at the moment so want to see if I can do some of the work myself. Here are the fails:

- Rear exhaust has a major leak of gases (garage said it was at the join of the mid section and rear pipe and could be welded)

- Nearside and Offside front subframe mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (more welding I'm guessing)

- Offside rear brake load sensing valve linkage seized (hopefully I can sort that with some WD40)

- Rear pads need replacing (can do that myself)

- Rear shocks are sized (doesn't look to difficult, seen some shocks for £22 each)

- Parking break efficiency below requirements (not sure what to do about that)

So if I can do the shocks, pads and valve linkage myself that just leaves the parking brake and the welding which should be a lot less than £370 I hope.

Would welcome any thoughts, I not an expert mechanic but I'm quite handy and have most of the tools.

Cheers

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1999 Black Rallye

Not on a rust bucket rallye. You remember doing James's steering rack. We should've told him about the rust....

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I doubt the dampers are seized, more likely to be the trailing arm bearings.

as for the rust I had an advisory about it on my zx, but it was just fudged up underseal from poor jacking in the past, scraped it all off and wire brushed any surface corrosion off and it was still solid, however my brother's DTurbo did require a plate last year.

rear pads, check the material thickness, they are very thin from new.

parking brake efficiency could be rusty discs from the inoperative load sensing valve.

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