stuey
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I'm in the final throws of welding the outside of my fiat 126 and keep looking at the side repeater holes and thinking how much I don't want to refit them- I have googled the very obvious question but there are so many conflicting answers out there can any mot testers/ savvy people give me the right answer on this one? thanks in advance-  |
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1987 fiat 126-nearly actually done!
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AFAIK it depends on date (not sure if registration or manufacture). Pre 1st April 86 and they can be removed. Post 1st April 86 and fitment / working legal requirement. Relevant part of MOT testers manual - www.motuk.co.uk/manual_140.htmPaul H |
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Oct 15, 2011 10:23:26 GMT
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seeing as its an 87 model it looks like you need them, so why not try to make a flush fitting side repeater (indicator behind the wing, and a bit of flush plastic over the hole). I don't know how hard to make, but would look cool  |
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`state
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Oct 15, 2011 11:10:18 GMT
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Put a small one in the wing mirror if you can.
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Look at all the plastic people who live without a care.Try to sit with me around my table,but never bring a chair.
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Ads 19
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Oct 15, 2011 14:59:40 GMT
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get rid, if you do need them for a test, make some little brackets that fit to bonnet edge, and fit some stick on led ones, then you can fit them once a year in couple of seconds
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Dez
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side repeaters-required?Dez
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Oct 15, 2011 15:01:50 GMT
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or tape em through the doorshuts and to the mirrors like everyone else does......
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Oct 15, 2011 15:24:51 GMT
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My old Lada was a 1996 car and I removed the side repeaters. It just recently passed an MOT like that.
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mk2cossie
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side repeaters-required?mk2cossie
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Oct 15, 2011 15:49:44 GMT
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^^ it shouldve been a fail!  if there are no side repeaters fitted on a vehicle registered after august 86, there is a possiblity its still passable. IF the tester stands 1meter from the rear corner of the car and can see the front indicator flashing its ok MOT wise hate to think what other things some of the MOTers out there are not even checking at test time  |
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Oct 15, 2011 15:50:43 GMT
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^as usual, just cos it passed doesn't mean it should have. The earlier advice (>04/86) is correct.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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longman
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side repeaters-required?longman
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Oct 15, 2011 16:05:21 GMT
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yes it should have , mine doesn't and has not been pulled on it , if they are not there most Mot'ers wont notice (probably  ) , if there and broken is a different matter |
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Lopez
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My tester certainly noticed - I cable tied some repeaters under the mirrors temporarily for the test (I have an '88 Manta with wings from a much earlier car)
Car is off the road for work at the moment and I am fitting permanent side repeaters.
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murran
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Oct 16, 2011 10:02:24 GMT
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I'm a tester and as above, yeah it should fail.
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stuey
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thanks for all the advice guys- I'm going to lose the current ones and get some smaller relocated ones.
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1987 fiat 126-nearly actually done!
1972 beetle - lawn art
2003 z4 daily-new wheels a comin!
2008 R56 Mini cooper "mental Mickey"
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Oct 19, 2011 19:57:38 GMT
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I deleated them off my 89 Passat and it failed the MOT last year despite passing it the year before at the same garage but different tested. I ended up buying myself some cheap stick repeaters and it passed with them and I ripped them off again afterwards.
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Oct 19, 2011 21:22:12 GMT
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Deffo should technically fail. I have deleted them on my '89 mini, only 2 testers have spotted it in the past 8 years, I just quickly wire up some side indicators and tape them to the wing if it's noticed.
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will930
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Oct 19, 2011 21:26:03 GMT
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if its not there it cant be tested correct? people on the micra club have smoothed over the side repeater holes
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Oct 19, 2011 21:50:44 GMT
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Nope, as said above, pre 1st April 86 and they can be removed. Post 1st April 86, fitment is a legal requirement, if they're not there, technically the car should fail and be unpassable until they are present. Demz da rules.
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will930
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Oct 19, 2011 22:05:30 GMT
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i didnt know that! glad the welder at work wasnt working when i was painting my front end! otherwise they would have gone!
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Oct 20, 2011 12:29:19 GMT
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as above, pre April 86 is the cut off, i have found summert out though, my car was fisrt registered mid april, but it was built in March so if i ever have any problems i can get through on a technicality hehe also as others have said, if you have a problem or are worried, tape some onto the arch as HC has done or a wing mirror or the likes |
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) , if there and broken is a different matter
