3 MOTs in a day! Who let the side down? Mini Cooper, Rover 200vi, Fiat Punto
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
- With spring springing, apparently, and summer on the way Im getting all the Furious Fleet beach ready an making sure they're all ready to enjoy, and 3 cars have expired MOTs - the Rover 200Vi, the Y reg Mini Cooper and the oldest Fiat Punto in Britain...and a couple need some heavy tinkering if they're going to see the road.
And I lost most of the video files after 2 days of filming. Ooops
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Cars reached their peak in the 90's. Just enough electronics to be modern, just enough home fix mechanicals.
And much more interesting than modern cars, take Mercedes-Benz now, a range of utterly dull cars which all look the same with shiny trim and multiple screens.
Hmmmm...
Got one 1993 Merc and a 2001 Saab. I do appreciate having an OBD 2 socket in the Saab that helped me finding the few faults I had with it - and the Saab was a pretty early car to have one.
And before they got so heavy and expensive, cars were a big purchase rather than now when it's more of just a transaction
Very true.
no obd tho
totally agree with Matt .. if you present your car for an MOT washed , hoovered & generally well presented .. it usually gives the impression of a well cared for car
The fact is, Matt, you spend lots of time maintaining your cars. You really do keep up with the workload and it makes for great viewing as well as explaining your excellent MoT pass rate! Hats off to you!
the 200 VI is a stunner
Now this is what I call a result Matt. 3 out of 3 passes is brilliant news. Maybe the 'lost' footage was an omen but who cares. 3 cars back on the road. A top result.
how about a video on how you insure your fleet? is it some kind of special policy that covers all cars or are they individually insured?
Congratulations on your 3 MOTs. My 94 Punto Cabrio (the one you saw at FOTU), has its MOT tomorrow. Hoping all is ok.
Couldn't help but be distracted by the background during the last bit in the Punto. Carriage Museum, the Rootes dealership being redeveloped, and the white pub with the incredibly low door frame🙂 It has changed quite a bit since I lived there (until 2001) for sure! Fremlins was actually a brewery site back in the early 80's, just another shopping centre now 🙂 Oh well, done on the MOT passes, the Rover 200Vi is still my favourite out of the three!
Friend of mine chased an intermittent connection in the wiring for a month. Took off the suspect line, and replaced it with a new one. Cut the jacket off the old line, and found the copper was green from end to end.....Top quality part that.....
Three out of three very good
So here’s a trick: rather than tape a window up, take apart a wooden clothes peg and use the halves as wedges to slide in between the glass and the door. Works wonders.
Well done Matt, I'm sure you had a smile on your face for the rest of the day.
Great news! I am looking forward to see the Punto getting some love and and a good drive 🇮🇹☺️
Three-for-three: amazing. Didn't see that coming. One-for-one in a day is as much trauma as I can take. Well done!
Great achievement! Hope to see the Punto at Rustival 2!
Great update Matt, nice work 👍
Great to see all 3 cars pass 👍
Well done Matt a great video as ever and well done on the passes on the mini punto and vi and be great to see them driving around! I agree with you I’ve always washed and hoovered my car to go for the mot or service it just seems the right thing to do
It will be great to see the punto and 145 out especially in their special year! You should have an Italian flag in both of them!!
All the best and thanks for all your hard work Daniel
Congratulations Matt. 3 passes!! It's about time you have some good luck.
Matt still a great video,congrats on mot success
Great news on the punto 😊
Disappointing about the loss of tinkering footage 😪
I know 93 unos had a cat so I'd definitely think the punto has one. Window tinkering usually leads to cut hands as every car is put together different and you are learning as you go.
Enjoying your videos. Currently laid up with chronic fatigue which is minor compared to many sufferers but enough to severely curtail my activities.
Hope you’re in a better place before too long
Looking forward to this 🎉🎉
Love you went into the red MINI calipers. I would paint them completely red. Or silver, like stock. :) Glad to hear the MOT's were all succesfull after all.
Woo hoo, 3 on one day? Incredible.
About to crack on with a bit of wiring on the MX5, this’ll be a good warm up.
Wow! 3 cars passed in a row! 😊
The Punto will have a Cat, it was compulsory from 92.
We don't have annual inspections here in Western Australia, and I've got to say I'm glad!! I feel like It's a bit of overkill and a bit of a money making exercise.. 🤔
While Matt waits for his MOT text, 69 waits for the Make a Winner call that never comes!
I drove a Rover 214 SI for a few months in the mid 2000's and absolutely loved it. It was very nippy indeed and handled brilliantly. I thought the build quality was great. I look back fondly on that car.
The 90s Rovers were much better than many people give them credit for, I’m a huge fan
Totally agree with you about the MOT, a clean car shows the MOT Inspector you care for the car, I also go with reverse Psychology and have a chant saying that if I have a questionable car that it will fail, but it will pass.
Yup know the guilty feeling when the Rozzers appear behind, especially when the exhaust pops and bangs on the over run.... 😂😂
Well done on the 3 Passes Matt.
On that basis Matt I’d definitely buy a lottery ticket!
More great content Matt 👍 when are you selling the Punto???????
Not for a while, and not on its birthday!
@@furiousdriving NOOOOO!! You can't sell the Punto, it's the best car on your fleet!!
What you talking about Matt ? That file you recovered was better quality than your usual weekly videos 😂, yeah joking aside that is so annoying when that happens to anyone , except when I lost all the footage of my mother -in - law drunk at Xmas 😁 that was a joyous LOST 👌🏻😏.
Top job. Soon have 100k subscribers! Champagne at the ready
Im keeping it on ice!
I got my wife an r50 mini and she loves it! It's fun little car, but motorways are not it's strong suit, so props to you getting to the aisle of white! 3k rpm for 60mph is tiring!
Aha, so it was instead technology that let the side down and not the cars. Great to see all the hard work paid off and you have three cracking, increasingly rare cars to play with in the long days of summer
I wondered where the updates were, feel for you when it comes to the data loss.
It sounds like some welding jobs were in the lost footage. So sad !!
If you lived in Northern Ireland, you'd have to wait until October to get an MOT at the moment. Unless you sat on your PC refreshing the dva mot page in the hope of getting a cancellation.
cats were mandatory in the uk from 1st jan 1993 in order to meet euro 1 emissions...... i remember the toyota carina e 1.6 lean burn, met the standards without a cat, but had to have 1 as it was the new law.
That solves that then!
My 1992 K reg Fiat Panda 1000 CLX had the Fire engine with SPI and Cat… also 5 speed box, it went very well !
Funny you should mention the original R50? version of the "new" mini being developed by Rover, NOT BMW, I've heard no end of people stating BMW did it. An old school friend of mine, Keith, worked at A C Delco and they provided the suspension systems for Rover. In his job he visited Longbridge fairly regularly and he saw the Rover designed and built Mini while there, with a K series engine fitted of course.
Additionally he saw another running prototype a short while before Rover collapsed in 2005, he was positive this then vanished at the point Rover was sold off by BMW and then reappeared as the BMW 1 series, with tweaked front and rear styling of course. I wonder if anyone reading this worked at Longbridge in design etc back then and could comment and as I've often wondered if Keith was correct or not ?????
For connection issues Caig Deoxit connection enhancer srayed on connections could help
SRS lights caused by the underseat plugs is a common thing. I've cut out and soldered the wires together on a few cars to fix it's not an issue until you need to take the seat out!
Do agree with you about Mini elecrics, terrible things.
I’ve done that but it still needs a wiggle and light delete!
Don`t know where u get the energy,- 4 Red Bull`s maybe.
The drivers window regulator would be an NCT fail in Ireland (none of the others need to work though).
it works going down, so would still pass I guess?
You have a Fiat Punto just shown there on the video. Did you know a very low mileage, E reg Fiat Punto appeared on Bangers & Cash!
E reg? First puntos were L and most were M so 93/94 ish would it have been an uno?
I did not!
My mistake it was the Fiat Uno. I was carried away with Fiat Punto.
The Fiat Uno was from a car collecter with Aston Martin, Triumph Special, and 1991 Ford fiesta going with this Uno to Matthewsons Auctions!
Such a shame the footage got wiped, but so happy all 3 cars got a fresh MOT!👍
It was, it was proper car tinkering time
every state is different but in Victoria (Australia), you get a RWC (roadworthy certificate) and potentially have it for the life of the car if you are the continued ownder ... unless the police pull you over and give you a canary, which I'd definitely get lol
(canary = vehicle defect notice - a windscreen sticker that is bright yellow and hard to remove)
Hi Matt, what code reader are you using on the mini?
its my dads icarsoft
Out of interest, which diagnostic tool do you use and would you recommend it as a general tool across multiple makes and models?
It’s my dads, I’ll have to check
My grandad alway taught me to take a nice clean car for a mot he used to say the same as you
Never overly fretted over MOT's, put the car in for test then had 14 days to fix and avail of the free retest. What was a worry and a massive expense was the C o F on the taxi, as taxed as Hackney didn't need both but that meant that couldn't be used or insured for SD&P, got around by running the meter when out with the kids or wife in it. A week in an approved garage for a full mechanical often with many new parts, the slightest wear or noise was a fail and on a vehicle covering 50,000+ PA was a few plus new tyres all round. Then a week spent cleaning everything to within an inch of its life, checking the paint was scratch free, T cut and polish, running over the measured mile just in case the meter needed recalibration. Everything crossed that nothing was amiss for another 12 months of work.
My local garages and fast fit centres are booked up 2 or 3 weeks ahead. They may offer 14 days retest but there's no chance of getting one.
@@bikeman123 I'm going back to the 70's and 80's most of the local MOT testers offered a while you wait drive in service no booking required, one just drove around them until one found one with an hour wait or less. Fine if car still had a current one.
It depends what it fails on, with cars this age its often things like emissions as sensors go and can be hard to pin down with pre OBD diagnostics
Well Mathew, im afraid apologies for the lost footage is no longer acceptable.🤣 So it's touch yer toes and ask Mrs furious to attend with he winkle picker shoe's the rest i will leave up to you. My 21 years old Honda Civic had light corrosion on the back wheel arches. A common fault on these so i looked into getting the car into the local shop and repaired. Well the cost of the repair was more than the value of the car. Looks like i will be looking to change my vehicle next January . Bummer Laters
Instead of the EBC Greenstuff pads fit the Ultimax2. They are just as good and very close performance wise and cheaper. I've fitted both and they are no different. So always fit Ultimax2 now.
Ive not come across them, thats worth a look
I’ll bet the air was blue with sweary words when you discovered your filming had disappeared 😮😂
Just out of interest does anyone in your family who adjust either of the front seats, because I had the airbag light on our Rover 75 car after garage had done work on the car a couple of years ago, and found it was a connector under the driver's seat. I ended up replacing the connector with one I purchased from The Range job done.
Video approved no gravity, click.
I'm glad that the MOTs weren't too painful for you. 🙂 Which of your fleet will you be taking to FOTU this year? 🙂
Not sure if Im going yet
@@furiousdrivingit'll be a proper bummer if you're not there! 😞
The mot here on continent is 50 pounds, how much in UK ?
Rover 200 vi
Did you know Diamond Bright will only let you use the code once?
I did not, Ill ask them about that
Any Rover 420 GSi Tourer updates?
It’s coming…
At work thinking yer wont have to listen to bloody wifes rooster for the next 12 hours , then bam roosters crowing in the video cant seem to get away from them 😂😂😂
75 quid for a window regulator that’s a bargain….I’ve just paid 250 au dollars for a s/h window regulator c/w electric motor for my 1979 Volvo 264
but as I pointed out, Im tight - its a Rover owner trait
😉👍🏴
I cannot endorse dmgrs enough. I have spent a lot if money with them and never had to return one part. Only real place to by r75 droplinks from. Mine have been on 5 years now lol
Yup, they are lifecsaverss!
Best place for police cars is in front of you?!😁
😅
I am a mime. My body is a tool. 😋👍
U could almost say a street car named desire?😂
buy a lotto ticket matt......
There is no such thing as., " There is no proper fix for it."
the proper fix means taking the drivers seat apart and replacing the wiring inside the seat, and as the seat cover is foam bonded to the fabric, that will likely disintegrate so a new seat cover will be needed - and they are not available - so theres not a realistic proper fix
Yipee I'm 3rd today
3 mins in and your still talking shite - at this rate I could vehicle score them all using your discount code, while eating my hello fresh charging my own car outside with a top don 2000, wash them all with some turtle wax before you tell us the results without a top don code reader
Why you here then mate if you just going to criticise Matt makes much time to make these videos and content
If yours is better what is your YT channel
@@danielrussell446 I love the channel its a joke
About time the government lowered the tax and mot exemption to 30 years , even 20/ 25 .After all you are doing your bit for environment using an old car
Yes, or did something for 20-40 year old classics, Ive been thinking alot about this