Hi just found this useful looking at buying an older ka to do up ,looked on the dvla mot website .put in reg of car your intrested in .it will list all the mot work that's had to be done plus the warning of work to come relavent to the mot .so stopped me wasting a trip to look at a rusty car which looked OK on e.bay.may be of help .
Bob

All Ka's rust around the filler cap rear wing. I looked at Ka's for my daughters first vehicle, kept seeing the same thing

So I looked at Nissan Micra K12's ...... totally different vehicles, and they come in a more convenient 5dr model. Great vehicle, go-kart driving, point and go.

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Bobbyg wrote:

Hi just found this useful looking at buying an older ka to do up ,looked on the dvla mot website .put in reg of car your intrested in .it will list all the mot work that's had to be done plus the warning of work to come relavent to the mot .so stopped me wasting a trip to look at a rusty car which looked OK on e.bay.may be of help .
Bob

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/ ----------
Tony S

been using that for ages and ages

Largered wrote:

All Ka's rust around the filler cap rear wing. I looked at Ka's for my daughters first vehicle, kept seeing the same thing

So I looked at Nissan Micra K12's ...... totally different vehicles, and they come in a more convenient 5dr model. Great vehicle, go-kart driving, point and go.

.

Shame is even Nissan can make lemons
We bought our K12 ex-display, 12 weeks old, granted it's now 15 years old, but with 50k on the clock, but it makes all the Land Rovers (don't count the one and only RR) look ultra reliable.

Crank pulley x 2 - this takes out all the drive belts and tensioners.
Cam chain at 12k - now needs another and it's an engine out job.
wheel bearings
drive shaft
head lights x 2
radiator
Security module
Steering wheel
cam sensor,
crank sensor x 2
oxygen sensors x2
Seat wiring - broken loom
paint peeling
air intake
rocker box gaskets - fills spark plug wells with oil.
washer bottle pump

Usual stuff like exhaust, wipers, batteries, pads/disks don't count as you would expect these to die due to the age of the car

why do we keep it? - because Gill likes the car, and it drives nicely
personally I am not looking forward to taking the engine out again. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Slightly off topic, but when Ford released the Ka, was pronounced "car". Now everyone calls it the K A. When my niece bought one years ago, she told me she had just bought a K A. I thought she meant a Kia ! until she said it was a Ford. Even the Ford dealers get this wrong. Went to look at a Street Ka for the missus years ago. Damn 12 year old Ford salesman looked at me bemused when I said we'd come to look at the Street (car) Ka. I guess it's one of those things that's now in the Psyche of the general public, so it'll remain that way.

Hi I put this topic up for the dvla side of things,not the ka club.but to be honest the family have had 3 ka from the 1.3 cross flow mod to the 1.3 zetec ,I like the handling and the easy Diy I did fancy the puma engine conversation .so the car I looked at was the 1.6 sport.the ka rust around the petrol cap due to the sponge material around the filler neck,on the rear of the door openning bottom rear.now covers by a bit of sticky back plastic.but the one I dvla had rusting around subframe mounting points,heavy rust on the sills ,front brushs all flashed up on the mot warning points.so it's back to working on the landrovers.

bought a special edition KA design brand new in 2005 for my daughter.

£5400 on the road !!

great wee car, fun to drive and she loved it, but the demon rust destroyed it even although it was looked after by her.

She traded it in for a new Mini in 2012, and according to the MOT site it failed it's last MOT in 2015 and I assume it has been scrapped.

Date tested
26 March 2015
Fail

Mileage
62,314 miles

MOT test number
5684 0558 5066

Test location
unavailable until further notice

Reason(s) for failure
•Offside Drivers door cannot be opened from outside the vehicle (6.2.B.1b)
•Front passenger door cannot be opened from outside the vehicle (6.2.B.1b)
•Hazard warning tell tale not working correctly (1.4.B.1e)
•Windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid (8.2.3)
•Offside Headlamp aim too low (1.
•Bonnet retaining device ineffective (8.4.2)
•Nearside Front suspension has excessive movement at a wishbone pin or bush (2.5.A.1c)
•Offside Front suspension has excessive movement at a wishbone pin or bush (2.5.A.1c)
•Exhaust system not adequately supported (7.1.1)
•Offside Front Anti-roll bar has excessive play in a pin/bush (2.4.G.2)
•Nearside Rear coil spring broken (2.4.C.1a)
•Offside Rear Vehicle structure has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.B.2)

Advisory notice item(s)
•Child seat fitted not allowing full inspection of adult belt


Iain

Andy131 wrote:

Shame is even Nissan can make lemons

RealBeale wrote:

Slightly off topic, but when Ford released the Ka, was pronounced "car". Now everyone calls it the K A. When my niece bought one years ago, she told me she had just bought a K A. I thought she meant a Kia ! until she said it was a Ford. Even the Ford dealers get this wrong. Went to look at a Street Ka for the missus years ago. Damn 12 year old Ford salesman looked at me bemused when I said we'd come to look at the Street (car) Ka. I guess it's one of those things that's now in the Psyche of the general public, so it'll remain that way.