nissan micra nearside coil spring upper mount replacement

I would fail it on insufficient weld /poor repair. Also check the inner rear wheel arch they just crumble under light pressure.

I always find it very hard to assess something like that from a photo and, to be fair, it's sometimes hard to assess it in real life as well! But, from the photo, where the left hand green line is I'm not sure if I'm looking at blobs of paint or blobs of weld. Overall I have to say I don't think it looks good enough.

The bolted cover just above the spring mount can come off if it gives you better excess regards welding.

Looking at the photo you do have more what appears to be excessive corrosion to the lower right ,it also looks like it will be within 30 cm of your spring mount,so you may need to take that in to consideration

If the spring mount was orinally spot welded then that's acceptable to spot weld the new mounting ,no harm if you want to seam weld it

I was told on a refresher course (when we still had them!) that as a rough rule of thumb if you were fitting a component/panel which was spot welded on originally then you could do the same with the new part. But if you were patching/repairing an existing part then it had to be seam welded. Obviously particular cases vary but that was the standard advice.

Here as I said I don't like the look of you repair and, as nitros44, pointed out are you really sure that this is all it needs? I've got a feeling that this is one of those jobs which may not be worth doing.

Oh, I meant to add that quite apart from the MOT test itself have you thought about what would happen if this part made a bid for freedom whilst you were driving?

Well, happily I don't have to pass or fail it (or even drive it for that matter) on the basis of a photo. See what your tester says.

Well that's good, and well done. All I was trying to say is that really to try and get a pass or fail decision on the basis of a photo is impossible.
The problems with any corrosion related issues are that it's a subjective judgement a lot of the time (if something has a hole in it or you can pull it off that simplifies matters!) and, lets be honest, on a four poster ramp even with a jacking beam you don't always get as good a view of and access to the underside as much as you might wish.

It's either that or he was blind