Hi, took my 2005 Jazz in for an MOT, and it had the following two major failures:
Offside Rear Seat belt anchorage prescribed area strength or continuity significantly reduced outer sill corroded (7.1.1 (a) (i)) Offside Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength axle mounting housing (5.3.6 (a) (i))Garage quoted 18 hours of welding at >£1k to fix, and recommended scrapping it instead, which seemed fair.
The part of this that I'm confused about, is the fact that it's the offside rear - this hasn't even been flagged as an advisory on past MOTs
I've jacked up the car and taken a look under - it's rusty for sure (it's an 18 year old car!), but I've tried agressively trying to stab a screwdriver through, and couldn't anywhere or see any obvious structural issues near the offside rear suspsension, but I'm also no expert
I've attached some photos of the underside near the offside rear wheel - think it's worth getting a second MOT from somewhere else or just scrapping it?
Ideally we'd like to get another year out of it since it's never had any mechanical issues, and it's not a great time to switch car for us, plus we just put a new set of nice tyres & a new radiator on it this year!