Passed

Rallye is back on the road having passed it’s MOT after a retest. A week ago it scraped through on emissions, but was failed on the brakes (front discs excessively pitted and too much travel in the handbrake. The washer bottle motor had also packed up when I was doing the final run through things the night before the test, so I stripped and cleaned it and reassembled, only for it to have packed up again by the following morning when it was actually being tested.

When I took it out of the car the silicon sealant along the seam where it had split was coming off too, so I’ve given up on it. To be frank, the 205 rear washer bottle I had was a load of old rubbish. In the end after a bit of hunting I found a very reasonably priced and suitably small washer bottle kit on eBay.

That said when it arrived it needed some silicon sealant where the pump joins the bottle to make it water tight too. Still, it’s smaller, lighter and more water tight that what it replaced and has a pump that works. Replaced the Citroen Xsara misting jets I’d fitted previously with some traditional style squirter nozzles on the bonnet and replaced all the old plastic pipework with new too.

Fitted new new front discs and some Mintex M1166 pads too. Car’s now legal and back on the road (for now)…