Morris Minor Owners Club

ESM tell me that they have more returns with SU's than with Hardi. But -certainly with brake cylinders - I find that different people at ESM have different opinions about their range of products. I bought a Hardi at the '24 National as a spare, but later read all the stuff about it being too high a ...

I'd describe the outside, fixed, fastening as a "peg" onto which the hood's Lift-the-Dot plate clips. If the OP's hood is screwed to the window frame, this is wrong.

:lol: :tu1: Therefore I wouldn't fanny around with a relay; just a simple change over switch. So many people seem to complicate matters. Relays are useful in the right circumstances. I used 2 relays to let me enable/disable my trafficators, so I'm not against them when needed.😉 ...as long as the sw...

At the risk of tempting fate, I believe my steering rack has not been changed or repaired since new, in 1956. IIRC, EP90'd at the specified intervals. The pedal shaft took 62 years to go faulty, its corrosion only discovered when the return spring broke. This assembly now has a nipple; so hopefully ...

:tu1: Therefore I wouldn't fanny around with a relay; just a simple change over switch. So many people seem to complicate matters. Relays are useful in the right circumstances. I used 2 relays to let me enable/disable my trafficators, so I'm not against them when needed.😉 ...as long as the switch c...

An afterthought. If the OP DOES go for the relay solution, the feed to the coil needs to be via the Ignition fuse, not the unfused - permanently ON - horn feed. Otherwise, depending on when you've parked the switch, the coil may be taking current all the time; draining (albeit slowly!) the battery.

Consider fitting a nearby changeover relay to toggle the battery feed between the "hot" terminals of the two horns. The drive to this relay's coil can then be in thin cable and fed from a simple, low current, switch; to cosmetically match other switchery on your dash. Match the rating of t...

Curious. I don't think the one I'd found had that change of slope on the striking face. But it was 40mm screw spacing, not 1.5".
Bill, does it work?
I wonder why there are two (maybe three?) variants of such a simple part.

Bill reports that the catch with 40mm mount spacing that I sent him works with the front door (ie B post) of his 4 door. To close off this query, can other members (with a micrometer!) report whether their car (MM, 2 or 1000, 2 or 4 door) features this 40mm spacing, or 1.5". 2mm doesn't sound m...

So.... I've just spoken to Andrea of DVSA's Team 3. And it's been recorded (by them, not me!) She tells me that an MOT Failure on a modern vehicle does not in any way cancel its current MOT. I posed the example of someone taking their car for an MOT 11 months into the validity of its current one. It...

Thanks Mike, for getting DVSA clarification on exempt vehicle retest,weird loophole. But that does not change the fact that a major defect failure vehicle cannot be driven legally away from the test centre if un-repaired as it's no longer roadworthy, even if its mot exempt. Your insurance would als...

The matter is settled. I've just spoken to Swansea DVSA. Jade (Team 13), after consulting her manager, confirmed that an MOT-exempt car does not need a retest following an MOT failure and subsequent repair. Though - as we all agree - the fault needs to be fixed, to make the car roadworthy. However t...

So.... I've sent this enquiry to the DVSA: Can you settle an issue that recently arose on our classic cars club forum. Where a MOT age-exempt vehicle is taken for a voluntary MOT test, and fails, is the owner obliged to re-present the car for a MOT re-retest after the relevant repair before he can l...

When the OP gets back to us to detail the nature of the erratic readings, can he/she indicate whether they have access to a Digital Voltmeter (DVM). And the knowledge to use it! A "yes" to both will help inform the diagnostic path.

So I'm not sure which Mike is referring to here, but I suspect he means Stabiliser, especially if he has a post '64 with no experience of earlier cars. OK, "stabiliser". I have a mixture of speedos and cars. But it's the OP's symptoms we still need to see. And - like me - has he or a previ...

Hope you get the info you require but the above quote makes sense, if a vehicle is taken for a test and fails, it’s considered unroadworthy, exempt or not. I personally cannot see any alternative! ——— for example, ‘well carry on, forget it didn’t pass’ Nobody on this thread has suggested a position...

I second what geoberni says. An opinion buried in a commercial website - or its forum - is NOT a statement of the law. And consider a fully MOT'd modern car that becomes unroadworthy (ie illegal) due - for instance - to a failed bulb. Does IT need to go for a fresh MOT, just to verify that its trans...

Given that the body is not markedly different, I'm suspecting that my variant item resulted from the manufacturer simply converting 1.5" to a close (but not close enough!) 40mm "equivalent". Fine if just fastening into wood or a steel panel. But useless for a tapped backplate.

Yes, possibly and possibly. Or the voltage regulator. Or the wiring.
Can you expand on "erratic"; just wobbly, or flicking from one end to the other? Or giving different steady readings at different times?

I can see a "Do Not Drive" instruction, but nothing to say that any future remedial action (at the same station, or -via a trailer - elsewhere) requires a new Test. As for the empty water bottle example, I was thinking of the owner pocketing the Fail Certificate, and topping up the bottle ...