Rear shox upper mounts

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Jerry Atric
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Rear shox upper mounts

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My "C" regn Scirocco with a relatively new MOT when I bought it a few months ago, was making strange noises from the rear.

Eventually traced to this culprit and it was the same on the other side!
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May be worth checking your car if they've not been looked at for many years as obviously mine hadn't . Rather surprised it passed the MOT to be honest when you see the state of the upper cups for the springs to "sit in".
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Now sorted with the help of Shane , many thanks mate!!!
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How did the MOT miss that, I would of thought an advisory would of been issued before the cup got to that state of rust.
How was the other side?


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Glad to of helped [emoji4] , oh and looks like my advise worked out for ya too [emoji4]

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Ref above….yes Shane, some invaluable advice from you, many thanks…..and as for the MOT reference above from mark1gls , unbelievable that it was not picked up on the MOT I agree…..the car was basically dangerous….and both sides were equally bad.

However, MOT's are normally SO thorough these days that I can only assume it was a wink wink nudge nudge deal !


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