Project Wedding Sax - car #4 Rallye resto

[Stissy]

Sparco'd

[nath89]

MOT booked and ready. 8am tomorrow.
Fingers crossed.

[nath89]

It failed.
Back to the driveway for more work. We've got 14 days for the retest.

[Mickswan]

Ball joints, a tyre and headlights. Not bad!

[MuZiZZle]

All of these photos and you didn't notice the tyre

dem lulZ

[Stissy]

Originally Posted by Mickswan

Ball joints, a tyre and headlights. Not bad!

Should be an easy fix.

Originally Posted by MuZiZZle

All of these photos and you didn't notice the tyre

dem lulZ

We were aware of the tyre haha. One of the rears has a slow puncture too but that wasn’t picked up on the MOT. We’re planning to buy some new wheels but the right set hasn’t come up yet.

[RobVT]

TSW Venoms

[blupower16v]

maybe the right panel was alraaby been changed... the one of vts or vtr is different under the plastic profile...
excus me for my bad inglish but I'm Italian.

[Stissy]

Originally Posted by RobVT

TSW Venoms

We’re after a set of 205 Speedlines, Pro Race 1.2s or O.Z Superleggeras. Depending on what comes up locally and at the right price.

[holdawayt]

Duuuuude, the lights etc are silly things to not sort before an MOT. Worn bushes can be hard to spot so i'll let you off there but the rest should've been picked up beforehand really.

[Stissy]

Originally Posted by holdawayt

Duuuuude, the lights etc are silly things to not sort before an MOT. Worn bushes can be hard to spot so i'll let you off there but the rest should've been picked up beforehand really.

I know man. We did the major work, like the disks and driveshafts. But we were pushed up tight against deadlines. Most of the work was done at night between our day jobs and working away. To be honest. We half expected the MOT tester to just replace the bulbs rather than failing the car. It cost us £50 for the MOT too.

[Stissy]

A bit of a delayed update. But this is some of the late night work we did to get the car through its MOT - the first time round.

Our good friend Sean sold us a Scorpion Sax Sport to replace the Magnex exhaust system.









We also cleaned the boot carpet and cleared out all the smashed glass from the rear.



We finally managed to resolve the wiper issue by hard wiring the wiper assembly to the battery via a switch in the dash (no fuse, we know how unsafe this is – it’s a temp fix). We also hard wired the washer pump to the battery using a biased switch.








Unfortunately, the first time we connected the pump to the battery we spliced in to the wrong terminal, so when we pressed the switch the rear washer jet switched on. Rather than splicing in to the other terminal we swapped the pipes from the washer motor over.













And we de-wipered the rear, this time successfully.

[Synister]

What size is the bung for the rear wiper delete? I've been meaning to replace the gaffer tape on mine.

[Stissy]

Originally Posted by Synister

What size is the bung for the rear wiper delete? I've been meaning to replace the gaffer tape on mine.

I’m not entirely sure of the size, we used the grommet from the boot floor (common method).

[Titu]

Nice, looks good

[Stissy]

Originally Posted by Titu

Nice, looks good

Thanks mate.

[nath89]

Unfortunately, with working odd shifts and such, we missed our retest date.
However, we managed to get stuck in this weekend, and replaced the wishbones and fitted new tyres/alloys.

[Stissy]

As Nath89 rightly said, we got the car back on the 17th October, with a failed MOT and a two week window before the retest. We thought that rather than just replacing the ball joints, we might as well replace the entire wishbone assembly. So we ordered a brand new set:



The pinch bolts were that seized, we managed to break one of our ratchets in the process.




With a bit of persistence we got the passenger side out and replaced.








Finally we harvested the wheels from the Gavin and Stacey VTS to get the MOT ready.



Unfortunately we ran out of time before fitting the second wishbone, so we missed the MOT retest. But this gives us the opportunity to make the car perfect before we send it in again. Good luck little Sax.

[Stissy]

We had a couple of free hours this weekend, so we removed the lock from the old bootlid, fitted it to the new one and removed the drivers side wishbone.

[DaCrazyOne]

Not to set you back or anything as seeing after you ripped the plastics off and fitted new side wing you might want to check the following for rot and strongly advised as will take a few min of time to check and id advise with the rot you already found on it to check over the mas their a common fault design with the inner mud guard and shield.. Where your ECU is sitting on the tray theirs 3 bolts that screw in remove them and that tray will remove and come off. On the fuse bx side the fuses that are in a cluster will click in place and theirs a screw under it and also a screw towards bottom

Under my ECU full of rot, and pretty much same on fuse box side.



Is what I found on mine and just had plates welded and done both sides.

And to your question

We also noticed that the driver’s side front seat, front left thread for the seat bolt looks to have been welded. Is this standard on Saxos? Or has this been repaired/changed?

Happens a lot as drivers seat gets used a lot more than passenger and often than not starts getting flimsy and if seats been changed not tightened back up or gets a bit of play in it or over tightend they brake down so they get welded up and made secure again.