Recovery of defects

In July 2024, the Spartan was presented to the technical inspection.

The report was catastrophic as explained on the "Bodywork and Remontage" page of this site.

A team of mechanics had been formed and mobilised for more than a week to take over the defects of the Boutier Retro Motors garage and allow the car to be presented again to the technical inspection.

If indeed the second technical inspection was virgin of any defect, in use, many other problems have appeared and required major work, here are the details.

Big problems have already been explained on the "Bodywork and Remantage" page of this site.

Other malfunctions were updated during the August 2024 road trip in England.

An electrical failure had immobilised the vehicle in the Bristol area.

A poorly connected power wire had come off on the hazard light circuit and caused a short circuit.

Two English garages had been asked to put the car back into working order, and neither of them had managed to do it completely.

Only a makeshift repair had allowed the car to start again, without everything being operational.

The key contactor damaged by the short circuit in England needs to be replaced.

Extended wires that change colour must also be changed.

Three terminal blocks will be set up to properly distribute the power supply of the different organs, and to connect the masses correctly.

A compartment will be created to install them cleanly and receive the electrical relays.

Since it is necessary to demonstrate the car radio to redo the electricity, this will be an opportunity to fix it correctly.

It had been installed on a simple sheet metal attached to the dashboard revealing the electrical wires on each side which was unsightly.

A real console will be set up.

The Boutier Rétro Motors garage had used 2 steel tubes covered with a piece of stainless steel sheet metal to manufacture the spare wheel support.

Two approvals required the support to be redone correctly:

- The steel tubes quickly rusted, and when the car took the rain, traces of rust flowed to the bottom of the trunk.

- The stainless steel sheets that covered these tubes were very thin and formed real razors on their edges. Every time I cleaned the car, I cut my fingers.

They have been redone correctly, in aluminum, with plugs at their ends :

Two problems were annoying in the trunk :

- The screw heads that fix the rear wings were protruding inside the trunk and damaged what we came to put in it.

They have been replaced by adapted stainless steel screws with a flat head.

- With the spare wheel on the trunk, it was a real strength test to open it. It took 2 to access it: one to hold it, and one to store or unload its contents.

Cylinders have been placed on the locations provided for this purpose.

The brake hoses that Boutier Rétro Motors had put on the Spartan had been refused during the technical inspection.

All too short, they almost reached the breaking point at the front when we turned the steering wheel all the way up, and if we lifted the car it was the rear brake hose that limited the stroke of the bridge that was hanging from this hose.

I still can't understand how a professional could do this.

The garage had told me that it had painted black the part of the stainless steel tubes located in the engine compartment to make it more aesthetic in the engine.

At no time would I have imagined that it was to mask that one of the two tubes had been put in steel !!!

Even more annoying, the line is poorly made and greatly harms the performance of the engine.

The line was designed in defiance of mechanical rules, the pressures are unbalanced between the outputs of cylinders 1 and 3 and cylinders 2 and 4 which were directed independently towards their respective lateral exits.

Only one solution is needed, to redo the job properly!

The line is redone, by a serious professional, according to the rules of the art...