After recovering the car back from Wolverhampton, it was then booked in for an MOT the following weekend. We thought it was worth putting in to see what was wrong with it rather than trying to second guess what could be wrong with it and trying to fix it. So early one Saturday morning the neighbours were awoken from their slumber as the Renault 5 was started on the driveway. It is pretty loud even when idling so my wife was glad to see the back of me when I had warmed the car up and headed off to the testing station.
All three of us were pretty pessimistic about its ability to pass. We thought the emissions would be way off due to it being smoky, especially when cold, suspension looked dubious (it still does) and the fact that it was a 22 year old car.
Upon pickup we were shocked to find out, it had only gone and passed, with only three advisory points.
1). Blue smoke upon acceleration (which we knew about), it still sailed through emissions.
2). One slightly warn rear brake pad (singular), again we can cope with that.
3). The windscreen wiper arm was working its way lose out of the bodywork, again something we had noticed.
This now meant all we had to do was wait for the insurance cover note to come through and we could then tax it and we'd have a 12 months tax and 12 months MOT track bitch within our initial £1,500 budget.
As mentioned on a previous post, tax on a Renault 5 GT Turbo is only £125 for 12 months, so this means more money to play with and less to the tax man.
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