MOT time

Well tomorrow the golf goes in for its MOT. Does anyone else get nervous?

The he car is in great condition, and running well but you never know what they will find!

Hope all goes well tomorrow.

I'm lucky that I never get nervous as my mum owns a garage with MOT station so free MOT's and garage facilities to keep the golf running smooth.

Dan

Yeah I get nervous about it even when I know there's nothing wrong!

Good luck for tomorrow  

Fail……bummer

drivers side ball joint (easy cheap fix)
emissions co2 too high

and last but not least, the possibly tricky one. The main beam blue light on the dash not working??

anyone any tips on getting the blue light working?

Cheers 

My blue light did not work just a couple of days before MOT, but at same time the rest of the clocks started doing strange things.

I went to get the clocks out, but only got part way, could not release them, but when I put it all back together everything was working. Think it wax the main wiring plug at the base of the clocks.  Might be worth just pressing everything together - if your lucky just a loose connection.

As Rich says check plugs to ensure nothing loose. Have you done much work on it lately and could you have dislodged or not re-fitted an earth strap, like the one to the rocker cover?

Funny you say that, I did have the rocker cover off a few weeks ago doing a rubber gasket conversion. I defo put that earth back on. Will need to check again.

What dies that earth do, anything else apart from the blue light?

cheers
 

MOTs getting tighter and tighter. Main beam tell tail wasn't a fail but is now, also you ball joint is prob just the rubber dust cover split or perished, wasn't a problem for last 40 years but is now.

View topic: Help - Main beam warning light -FIXED UPDATE- - The Mk1 Golf Owners Club

I know it can screw up everything if it's not fitted right!  

It does seem pretty random but when it's not put back on right or at all all sorts of electric gremlins can creep in!

For the co2 fail, is the air filter clean and new?

Try seeing if the blue light comes on when you use the headlamp flasher, mine still worked then, but as soon as the light switch was on, everything went mad.

Update……

blue light now fixed! Change fuse number 9 and hey presto it works! Thanks to one if rubjonny's diagrams. Wish I could fix other stuff in 10 minutes…..

ball joint ordered.

see if I can get the emissions sorted tomorrow on my day off.

air filter was changed about 1000 miles ago.

cheers

 

Good fix Stu :-)

New update…………

ball joint arrived today, will fit tomorrow night.

dropped the car off at a local auto tune place, they are going to look at reducing the co2 tomorrow.
cant say the filled me with confidence, the guy didn't seem overly impressed about working on an old car. I also asked them to check the ignition timing. He then asked if it had a distributor? WTH?

Anyway its its there now so well see what happens.

will update tomorrow night.

cheers

New update……….

had the car in for a tune up, mixture settings, idle adjusted and ignition timing. Feels great money well spent.

ball joint fitted, removing the old ball joint was a right pain. Once I got a decent drill and new drill bits it was easy in the end. It's amazing what having the correct tools can do to making a job a bit easier. Anyway another success story no more knocking noises, steering wheel has now returned to centre position and the steering fells more responsive. Amazing for a part that cost £7

The main beam tell tale light saga continues, changing the fuse seems to have made this an intermitting problem. Just need it to work for the mot then can deal with it later. Try and get the mot signed of tomorrow!

Let you know how I get on.