Allegro Club International

J Dawson · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:55 pm Post subject: Interesting MoT failure data.

Interesting data from the Honest John website:

http://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/mot/austin/allegro
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Colin T · Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 1282 Location: N.E. Hampshire

Oh dear, my car failed once in that period, on a indicator repeater - it had been iffy, but I thought I had sorted it (corroded contacts), and checked it just before setting off to the test station - which was 1 minute's walk away from home at the time!!
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J Dawson · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:32 pm Post subject:

They have a habit of doing that - just tweaking a bulb or contact to make it work, flick the switch half a dozen times before the test just to make sure, and then come the time it doesn't want to work.

These details are important for us, as it gives us a good idea of the sort of areas to pay extra attention to.
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1976 Allegro 1100 4-dr saloon

Squeak, rattle & roll

Colin T · Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 1282 Location: N.E. Hampshire

In my case, I had scrapped the contact clean, but not clean enough - I sorted it by doing a extremely thorough cleaning job and it's been fine since Smile

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