Epic MOT fail

[Asingood]

Well my first one with this car,rear brake calliper seized ,rear shock absorber leaking but the main issue rusty sills and they were bad wondering if this is an issue on xtypes.my previous car was the 2.1 and was fine ,this car is a 3.0 and the awd model were there any design differences that could make this a problem will make sure the work is correctly rustproofed,oh and one of the headlamps looks knackered ,so eBay here I come ,so going in on we'd should have back on sat I hope ,off to take out a second mortgage

[O.T.H]

Hi Robert --Yes I'm afraid there is a problem with the X Type
rusting sills I had to have 2 put on mine and + MOT it cost
 £450 so not a cheap item but once done and treated  it can
be forgotten I'm not sure but I think that 2006 and after do
not suffer from this ????
I hope you get everything sorted as they are a great car .

Frank

[Asingood]

Thanks explains a lot and Apparantly the ones for the 3.0 are different to the 2.1 2.2 models so special order quote is over 4 figures at moment so no Christmas for me lol

[Asingood]

Well £1300 lighter but a valid MOT I would trust,which means should I make a complaint agains the previous garage for its MOT as some of the rust on the sills must have been visible as no way the holes I saw appeared in a year,the garage was in Bradford

[pugsleysimon]

had same problem with my 3.o litre X type, £400 lighter now as a result

just posted some photos on another part of forum, they were pretty bad.

I too wondered how they could have got so bad in a year since it's last MOT

when dealer had it tested.

I urge everyone to get them checked as comes as a nasty shock when a 

total of £750 lighter for MOT

[Asingood]

My god that's bad,but mine was all underneath car theres more cosmetic work on there also