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IVA Upper ball joint protection
leon51274 - 17/7/13 at 01:21 PM

Me Again!

Shortly I will be putting a series of pre iva pics for you guys to comment on. In the meantime whats the general opinion on my upper ball joint protection for iva, acceptable or not? Its basically a square section of rubber about 4mm thick that has been wrapped in and around with insulation tape.

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MsD - 17/7/13 at 01:25 PM

From memory the area you have covered is exempt from radius testing. There's a diagram in the manual that should clarify this..

Mark.

Dick Axtell - 17/7/13 at 01:27 PM

Interesting point you raised, but also puzzling. My tester never queried my unprotected upper (adjustable) ball joints, because the "sphere of doom" couldn't get anywhere near them. Hope that remains the case for the re-test.

snapper - 17/7/13 at 01:58 PM

I found some plastic ball joint covers then wrapped the adjuster nut in neoprene then used large shrink wrap
Can't be to carefull I thought

Daddylonglegs - 17/7/13 at 02:02 PM

Mine was 2 TRE rubbers back-to-back:

IVA 5
IVA 5

Passed fine , and I've left them there to keep the Cr*p out

mookaloid - 17/7/13 at 02:05 PM

Not sure if is it a 'testable' bit but I am fairly sure that wrapping stuff with tape is not considered a permanent solution and would potentially fail on that - if indeed it is in a testable area.

daveb666 - 17/7/13 at 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by Dick Axtell
Interesting point you raised, but also puzzling. My tester never queried my unprotected upper (adjustable) ball joints, because the "sphere of doom" couldn't get anywhere near them. Hope that remains the case for the re-test.


If it passed the test first time they wont even look at that bit of the car second time.

whitestu - 17/7/13 at 02:18 PM

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because the "sphere of doom" couldn't get anywhere near them.


When I did my SVA the tester didn't even use a 'sphere of doom'

Daddylonglegs - 17/7/13 at 02:31 PM

quote:
Originally posted by daveb666
If it passed the test first time they wont even look at that bit of the car second time.


Be careful there! That's what I thought, but my tester found a 'new' non-compliance on my re-test, but luckily I fixed it there and then. It was nothing to do with the original fail points

daveb666 - 17/7/13 at 02:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
quote:
Originally posted by daveb666
If it passed the test first time they wont even look at that bit of the car second time.


Be careful there! That's what I thought, but my tester found a 'new' non-compliance on my re-test, but luckily I fixed it there and then. It was nothing to do with the original fail points



That is very naughty and against what I have read and been led to believe.

daveb666 - 17/7/13 at 02:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
quote:
Originally posted by daveb666
If it passed the test first time they wont even look at that bit of the car second time.


Be careful there! That's what I thought, but my tester found a 'new' non-compliance on my re-test, but luckily I fixed it there and then. It was nothing to do with the original fail points


btw, what was the new non-compliance?

leon51274 - 17/7/13 at 04:29 PM

Cheers again chaps