Hi all,

Booking my fabia VRS in for its MOT next week and came across this when re-fitting my freshly painted rear caliper!

As you can see the rubber part at the top which holds to harder plastic sleeve over the top of the shock to stop crud getting to it has been all chewed up allowing the tube to fall down and i assume dirt to get in.

Will this be an MOT fail and if so can i just replace the rubber part?

Any help or part numbers would be appreciated. Thanks

Jordan

I see that frequently when carrying out MOTs and don't even bother advising it these days. The foam bit is a bump stop, whether it's attached at the top or not, in my opinion it's still going to fulfill its function as a bump stop.

I see that frequently when carrying out MOTs and don't even bother advising it these days. The foam bit is a bump stop, whether it's attached at the top or not, in my opinion it's still going to fulfill its function as a bump stop.

Thanks fordfan I wasn't sure if the sleeve had to be connected to this or it was just chewed! One less thing to worry about

I see that frequently when carrying out MOTs and don't even bother advising it these days. The foam bit is a bump stop, whether it's attached at the top or not, in my opinion it's still going to fulfill its function as a bump stop.

Isn't there something new in the MOT about a deterioration of bushes no classes as a fail, doesn't have to have play in it at all etc.

Isn't there something new in the MOT about a deterioration of bushes no classes as a fail, doesn't have to have play in it at all etc.

Thats what I was worried about Tech1e!

Mine was like this on both sides, it passed. Same as you i was worried about it failing

Mine was only the one side but it passed anyhow. Will change the pair of them at some point.

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Just trim off the mess bit carefully and don't bother changing them until you replace the shocks.

TBH, if they're getting a beating it probably means the rear shocks are getting a bit weak and spending too much time on the bump stops anyway.

Mine are the same as you, I noticed them a few months ago.

I put my car in for it's MOT last month and those passed, (rear discs didn't). I should have told the garage to change them when they were doing the brakes.

I'll change them at some point. I'm guessing as mine is on standard suspension/ ride height there is no point in buying polyurethane bumpstops?

thats exactly like mine were