After a little delay I have had about an hour to have a look at the car properly.
A big screwdriver was used to 'test' the areas that had been heavily undersealed and as expected a few holes have been made.
One either side of the boot floor, one in the rear inner arch behind loads of mud and finally, for now' the end of the inner sill on the drivers side.
Overall I am quite pleased with that and thankfully the MOT tester is not allowed to 'explore' properly.
I have now also got a list of parts I need to find or fix. These are:
*Rear brake shoes and cylinders. (working but shoes are worn and if I am there I might as well do the cylinders)
*Handbrake cables. (working but the outer plastic is gone in a few places)
*The brake pipes at the rear axle are looking not brilliant so that will get replaced but I have a roll of pipe for that. (Happily the flexi at the back axle looks recent)
*Fuel tank is porous and is weeping. I discovered that these are in the same shop as unicorn poo so I will go down the tank sealer route.
*Brake master cylinder looks awful, it works but when I start bleeding stuff I expect problems so might get one of them too.
*All the hoses for the coolant as they are not in a good way at all.
*Radiator. The car came with a new rad for a fiesta, I will investigate this but would be happier with the old one being swapped. This will possibly change when cost implications come into force.
*Spark plugs and filters, I have a new distributor, leads and coil to fit already.
I have no doubt the list will grow and just hope I can get it all sorted for the 31st of May as that is my daughters 17th birthday and this is the car she will be learning in.
I am starting to look at the suppliers and will get in touch with the ones suggested above so thanks for that. I will disclose my ignorance of the differences and similarities between the Toledo and the Dolomite to them all.
Sorry no pictures as my phone is being ignorant and not talking to anything today.
John