Mot

[Guest Ant]

There's a plastic park switch fitted to the lucas motors and they are famous for clogging up and corroding. If you open it up you'll see the problem, but poutting it backj together again isn't too easy. Best solution is to replace the park switch. There's one for £7.50 on this page:

 

http://www.s-v-c.co.uk/SVCWIPERS.HTM

 

Ant

[geoff shep]

This is a quote:

 

3. The wiper blade or blades

shall return automatically to

a position of rest which shall

be at or beyond the outer

edge of the area swept by

the wiper and shall be

capable of being displaced

from this position on the

windscreen to allow for

windscreen cleaning.

 

from this document

 

Don't know how current - there are a lot of things in the vehicle regulations eg postioning of lights, that are not checked at MOT - but which presumably would be checked for SVA. When I built mine I got all the info from the library but that was before the interweb.

[Snapperpaul]

Is this another one of those issues to do with the date of the donor or the date of registration. My donor car would have self park but would not have the park setting that drops the blades a little lower.

[Guest Peejay]

peejay

 

what other thing do we get away with ?

what other thing do we get away with ?

 

Visible smoke only on MOT's !!

[Guest hcgrant]

Hi Nick,

You can get a replacement switch from Minispares : www.minispares.co.uk.

Hugh