Goodluckmonkey
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Yeah, they have them, but they don't rust and fall apart.
You have a vat of diesel to park her up in ?Goodluckmonkey said:
I'm waiting for this teflon coating additive NASA have been promising for the past 30+ years.freddofrog said:underneath inboard of the tsunami shields my car looks like those handle bars, and outboard of the tsunami shields the rear calipers are like the rear sprocket ....so the tsunami shields do manage to keep the crud trapped in the brakes instead of under the car :lol:
also, the top of the car looks a bit like the saddle in places, paintwork is doing its job because torrential rain washes it clean
that would help on the caliper and its piston to keep it from fouling up, the tsunami shields don't LOLChannel Hopper said:I'm waiting for this teflon coating additive NASA have been promising for the past 30+ years.
You might want to check with someone else whether the tester is right about this.midaev1 said:I failed my nct (MOT) yesterday coz of these Shields. Does anyone knows where to get them? Called up all the local carparts sellers told me only dealers. Was wondering you guys might know a place. Rear dust shields rusted out. The nct guy said they has to be there I n order to pass test.
That's a good find Cliff , but I'd be wary as to whether the wording is being misinterpretedCliffordski said:This looks like it
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2014/si/322/made/en/print
Item 52 para (7) towards the end - missing brake dirt shield is a fail item, so it looks like the tester is right.
But as Jon says if a car is manufactured without dirt shields presumably it will pass because then they are not 'missing' even though that car does not have them either !
It's different in the UK as only a backplate issue is a fail not the dirt shield.
Still for about £50 for a new on it could be a lot worse.
Cliffordski said:
So, what is a dirt shield if it's not another name for a back plate ?Cliffordski said:The key difference for the OP is that the ROI wording expressly refers to a dirt shield, but the GB wording doesn't, which enables the distinction between that and a backing plate which you pointed out to be made in GB but not in the ROI.
Good job "our erstwhile friend" doesn't write anything for GB gov, it could be even more confusingCliffordski said:One has a brake attached to the other side of it, the other doesn't.
GB MOT testers don't have a problem recognising the difference.