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Heads ups for Almera drivers ---- front cross member rust
britishtrident - 8/5/09 at 06:14 PM

Apparently a lot of otherwise tidy looking Nissan Almras are failing on rusty front crossmembers

see

http://www.kelsey-forums.co.uk/cgi-bin/cmm/YaBB.pl?num=1236196597

and

http://www.kelsey-forums.co.uk/cgi-bin/cmm/YaBB.pl?num=1241369771

[Edited on 8/5/09 by britishtrident]

blakep82 - 8/5/09 at 06:22 PM

i'm not a member

britishtrident - 8/5/09 at 06:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
i'm not a member


Ahh -- that forum used to be 100% public read access but they had a moron problem very recently --- just create a login and acknowledge the email for access.

Useful forum if you ignore the small number of munchkins.

Lets just say the Almera rust prblem is major

blakep82 - 8/5/09 at 06:34 PM

ah, its alright, i was only looking to see if there was any pictures, just to be nosey
i have never had, don't have, and probably never will have an almera

bob - 8/5/09 at 06:37 PM

Nasty

I thought my wifes 14 year old micra was bad but it looks a lot better than that, MOT tester has pointed it out over the last two years saying its bad but within the parameters of a pass.

Posts didnt say what year the almera was.

Howlor - 8/5/09 at 06:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
i'm not a member


Ahh -- that forum used to be 100% public read access but they had a moron problem very recently



Wasn't that tit we had on here a while back was it?! Can't remember his addy.

Steve

britishtrident - 8/5/09 at 07:16 PM

Na ya get a different type of moron on that forum

Davey D - 8/5/09 at 07:17 PM

The K11 micra sufferes exactly the same.

My mrs has a 10 year old micra which is nigh on spotless mechanically, electrically, and bodywork wise.

she took it for an MOT, and it failed on the front cross member that had rotted through... i couldnt believe it until i got under the car to have a look.... everything was in excellent condition except for just the cross member. they wanted £200+ for repairing it at the MOT centre... stuff that. i bought a new member from a local motor factors for £20, and then cut out/replaced the original in a couple of hours

iceman26 - 8/5/09 at 07:42 PM

this is not a mot fail on k11 or n16 just to let you know

zilspeed - 8/5/09 at 11:00 PM

DRC INDY 7 - 8/5/09 at 11:01 PM

The front cross member is not a fail the garage should have passed the vehicle you could have reported it to vosa and claimed the full test fee back corrosion has to be within 30cm of a load bearing point ie suspension seats etc not cross members even though the gearbox is attatched to it

mr henderson - 9/5/09 at 01:18 AM

I presume that these cars are being brought to our attention as potential donors?

UncleFista - 9/5/09 at 01:59 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mr henderson
I presume that these cars are being brought to our attention as potential donors?


If it was in the "Donor Cars" forum then I might too, but this is in "Anything else".

mr henderson - 9/5/09 at 07:22 AM

quote:
Originally posted by UncleFista
quote:
Originally posted by mr henderson
I presume that these cars are being brought to our attention as potential donors?


If it was in the "Donor Cars" forum then I might too, but this is in "Anything else".


Putting threads in apparently inappropriate sections is a long-standing Locostbuilders tradition!

John

MikeRJ - 9/5/09 at 11:21 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mr henderson
I presume that these cars are being brought to our attention as potential donors?


Seems quite clear to me that BT was simply posting a helpful warning for anyone that owns one of these cars?

mr henderson - 9/5/09 at 12:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by mr henderson
I presume that these cars are being brought to our attention as potential donors?


Seems quite clear to me that BT was simply posting a helpful warning for anyone that owns one of these cars?


Just as it seems clear to me that my humour is sometimes too subtle?