Took my S14 for an MOT today after having it off the road for 7 months, wasn't too optimistic as I have an exhaust with no cat and don't know any MOT testers personally. So as expected the emissions caused it to fail which wasn't too surprising, however I ended up getting a much bigger failure sheet than I hoped for. Reason? Rust. I got recommended someone who can do welding in my village who is apparantly cheap, but I thought I'd post pictures on here and ask what people think would be a reasonable cost for welding.
There were some other few random bullshit things it failed for which are weird, but cheap to fix. Failed for having the drift button hand brake thing, apparantly it needs to have a spring and also failed for having a square jap plate on the front, which is supposedly not allowed on a UK car.
Now to the juicy bits, rust. Surely the bits where the subframe bolts to don't have to be pretty so that's a bonus. The middle of the sill is also luckily not a red painted area but can be seen. Whilst I'm at it, theres a lot of rust in the top of one of the rear arches, that should be done as it flings water inside and will rust everything out as it runs down into the bottom.
The two subframe mounting points. Click to open a larger version, one is a tad blurry.
And the sill, it was just bubbly before, he poked the holes in it.
And finally the bit that hasn't go anything to do with MOT but I want doing. I took off the rear door cards to have a good look at it. Not a nice place.
And from the inside the car, it can be seen from inside the big whole that exists that lets you see the wheel well and the outside of that.
What do we reckon reasonable prices would be to get all that welded?
Thanks