metalmick8y wrote:I think in fairness Billys comments were correct in so far as the seat belt mount should be seam welded when letting a piece in but if reinforcing the original metal with a new captive nut/mount then it is permissable to do it in other ways, but the run of "pooh" tacks on this van are a disgrace, to put it bluntly , they are not much better than p40 and newspaper, they are filling a hole from which to build up the filler, not an issue in many areas if your happy with that standard but in the specific areas that matter its a no no.
Fair comment, MM. I was just attempting to clear up some of the confusion when you hear people trot out the old "all MOT repairs must be continuously seam welded" misunderstanding.
Brilliant comments in your subsequent posts, by the way. You have to wonder how some of these "professionals" can sleep at night, or whether they get any real satisfaction from what they do. Admittedly, not everyone is as much of an artist as you are, but why bother if they're not going to do the job properly? And, because they don't document the work under the surface, like you do, it's only when the dreaded brown stuff starts breaking through the shiny paint in a couple of years that anyone's the wiser. Shocking, really.
