Sunday, 25 May 2025

MOT follow up

I had the Kappa SW MOT done but it did not pass. There were a few minor remarks which I need to sort out:

- All brake callipers need to be freed up. Clearly a result of not driving it over the past 2 or 3 years. So I likely need to remove them all and clean up.
- One brakehose-piping having a small spot of corrossion - rear left side.
- Both stabilizor links backside poor.

So I figured to tackle the simplest job first and ordered a pair of new stabilizor links. Including shipping costs this costed only € 25,-



Although everythings looks a bit rusty it's only surface rust. In fact it all felt very firm, so not sure why it's considered a fail. 

And of course it turned out to be a dramatic job as the bolts wouldn't come off easily, despite using a air hammer and various other brute force methods. So I ended up using the grinder to get it removed. The other side was of course similar. 


But hey, presto:


I also quickly inspected the brakes and the discs and the pads looks very good. So only the calipers needs to get a good cleaning. Coming week it's going to be rainy and I'm off two days so I think I know what I will be doing. 


Looking underneath perhpas the tie-rods could have done as well, somehow they were good enough for the MOT. I still can consider that later on.

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