Hi Jim,
It is late and I am drunk n tired, still in me oily rag's and need a shower but I will TRY to be cllear
... I will try to remember to get pic's to you but if not remind me, as my memory isn't the best, to say the least!
... yes, spent nearly 20 notes on a short auxilary belt for the car today and all fine but then I decided time to clear out the Mouse Nest's from under the bonet etc and make it presentable for the dreaded MOT man but there has always been this slight niggle in my mind of the state of the top strut on the drivers side, as it looked a tad on the rusty side but I guess I kind of shyed-away from looking too hard and thought I'd disguise it a little, so Mr MOT man wouldn't home-in on it
but when I cleaned out the Mouse nest and had a little probe I started to give it some more seriouse thought and ended up looking at a very long thread on this forum, on Xantia top strut problems ... To which you have a lot of input on! ... Anyway, it has depressed me and I am now in a real quandery again
... is this car safe.. (Probably not!) .. should I scrap the thing and finally bite the bullet and get-rid
.... I mean ... over £100. per strut top! ... surely this writes off the car! .... I could probably go buy something on FleaBay for £250. or so that is safe and MOT'eed! .... I'm gutted .. all the time and effort I have put into this darn thing and over several years now, on & off! ... Its one thing after another and as much as I hate to give-in, there is a point ... as Clint said once ... "A man needs to know his limitations"! ... and I am thinking that maybe I should take note
I guess I could spend one more bit of energy and time on it and remove the top strut support and give it a good examination and make more of a decision from that .... O'h gawd .... Let's see how I feel tomorrow!