G day fellas;
Thought l would buy a sportscar after playing with hotrods for the past thirty years or so, and silly me bought an MGF! Its a Feb 98 built date first registered in 99 in Oz . Bought it as an economical write off from a guy who had it in his shed for 8 years and fixed the panel work really nicely; then l bought it and trouble started from that day! I have resprayed the front panels and thought 'oh well might just take it for a rego inspection(same as your MOT but much more red tape)" . They wanted engineer certification for the repairs which was OK but also wanted the Vin number of the car the parts came off to fix mine back in 2012, I managed to get these and proudly made an appointment for a second inspection ....... got within 3Ks (about 2 Miles) from the inspection and head gasket shat itself. Well l have put in a new one, got the head cleaned and surfaced and changed the timing belt and a new water pump and voila! - leaks around the thermostat housing so new T/stat and housing and we're ready to go but it doesn't. it has spark and fuel pump engages to prime the rail and turns over but after 1/2 second of running it shut off and wont start again,,, good battery and l played beethovens fifth on the key fob to disable the alarm to no avail. My question after all this is did l miss something ( I've got 50 years experience as a mechanic, so I'm pretty thick skinned) or do I call the wrecker and go back to earlies (Noooo)
Thought l would buy a sportscar after playing with hotrods for the past thirty years or so, and silly me bought an MGF! Its a Feb 98 built date first registered in 99 in Oz . Bought it as an economical write off from a guy who had it in his shed for 8 years and fixed the panel work really nicely; then l bought it and trouble started from that day! I have resprayed the front panels and thought 'oh well might just take it for a rego inspection(same as your MOT but much more red tape)" . They wanted engineer certification for the repairs which was OK but also wanted the Vin number of the car the parts came off to fix mine back in 2012, I managed to get these and proudly made an appointment for a second inspection ....... got within 3Ks (about 2 Miles) from the inspection and head gasket shat itself. Well l have put in a new one, got the head cleaned and surfaced and changed the timing belt and a new water pump and voila! - leaks around the thermostat housing so new T/stat and housing and we're ready to go but it doesn't. it has spark and fuel pump engages to prime the rail and turns over but after 1/2 second of running it shut off and wont start again,,, good battery and l played beethovens fifth on the key fob to disable the alarm to no avail. My question after all this is did l miss something ( I've got 50 years experience as a mechanic, so I'm pretty thick skinned) or do I call the wrecker and go back to earlies (Noooo)