So, yesterday, Poppy went in for her MOT. I wasn't massively hopeful as she does have a crack in her windscreen (oh, ok, two!) but I wasn't expecting how badly she was going to fail.
It transpires that she has a cracked rear coil spring, so really needs both of those doing, as well as the boots on both track rod ends and the o/s front upper suspension boot being dead. Not ideal and three fails on the MOT, not including a whole host of corrosion-related advisories (hey, she's 23 yrs old, what can you expect?). So she's going in to be fixed by a nice local mechanic on Friday (MOT runs out tomorrow) before a retest. Poor little lamb!
Poppy's curious structural integrity aside, it's a bit of a blow to the bank balance - £345 in total inc. parts and labour, which is a damn sight better than the £700 quoted by another mechanic, but nonetheless not ideal. Oh well, at least that'll be coil springs and boots done for a few years I suppose :-)
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