The little Aygo has just passed the MOT test with no advisories - whoop. Dropped it off at 8:15 and they'd done it by 9:45 - checked on line and have seen the certificate - they haven't phoned me yet !
Couple of jobs on it recently - keep getting a 'boing' noise when coming off the accelerator at low speeds. Finally found it last night.
The car had a full exhaust, including cat and manifold earlier in the year. The fitters had re-used bent bolts to secure the pipe to the cat so as the engine/manifold moved, the spring on the bolt was at a stupid angle so made a noise. Unfortunately, it was made of cheese and the bolt head snapped off last night. So one bolt holding pipe on, but it's secure - it's not come up as an issue on the MOT but I'll get it fixed.
Whilst doing this job, I took the bumper off as the same 'exhaust' garage hadn't refitted the support bracket for the cat - it's a small bracket that secures the cat/manifold to the lower part of the engine, and stops the cat flexing too much - common issue on city bugs and it an crack the welds if allowed to continue.
Daughter is now having lessons and has been doing a little practice in the Aygo at weekends.