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Just a quick one. Are MOT testers allowed to use anything other than the prescribed tool to inspect corrosion in a car?
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Their eyes and their fingers.
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Their eyes and their fingers. Not the lump of steel used to check ball joints jabbed into the corrosion then...? |
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No, but corrosion is corrosion. If it is a fail, it is a fail. If they jabbed the pointy end of the corrosion assessment tool in, it'd do the same job.
You want your rusty car to pass its MoT?
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wildy
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Light finger and thumb pressure using the Corrosion Assesment Tool. Anything else is excessive. Only exception being brake pipes where scraping or emery cloth may be used to assess corrosion.
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No, but when a tester I had doubts about (he has 'form' for being a bit of a d**k) smacks the sills of a car (not mine) hard with the suspension lever tool and then spends several seconds forcing said tool into the sill, it just reinforces my suspicions about his ability. I should have walked away then and there and taken my car somewhere else. Cheers guys! (BTW, after the retest I am NOT ever going back there....).
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Last Edit: Aug 3, 2013 19:51:14 GMT by marinanut
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Light finger and thumb pressure using the Corrosion Assesment Tool. Anything else is excessive. Only exception being brake pipes where scraping or emery cloth may be used to assess corrosion. Quite right, this is from the UK MOT site - ''Having identified the important load bearing members and 'prescribed areas' on a vehicle, the tester should determine whether they are excessively corroded, firstly by visual inspection and then by finger/thumb pressure. If necessary careful scraping or light tapping of the affected areas with the Corrosion Assessment Tool is permitted. Excessively corroded metal, or metal treated with filler, emits a duller sound than does unaffected metal. It is not necessary to apply heavy impact blows or to use a sharp instrument to 'dig' at the structure.'' |
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No, but when a tester I had doubts about (he has 'form' for being a bit of a d**k) smacks the sills of a car (not mine) hard with the suspension lever tool and then spends several seconds forcing said tool into the sill, it just reinforces my suspicions about his ability. I should have walked away then and there and taken my car somewhere else. Cheers guys! (BTW, after the retest I am NOT ever going back there....). Sounds like a complaint to VOSA is in order.. |
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No, but when a tester I had doubts about (he has 'form' for being a bit of a d**k) smacks the sills of a car (not mine) hard with the suspension lever tool and then spends several seconds forcing said tool into the sill, it just reinforces my suspicions about his ability. I should have walked away then and there and taken my car somewhere else. Cheers guys! (BTW, after the retest I am NOT ever going back there....). Sounds like a complaint to VOSA is in order.. TBH I should really have had his guts two years ago when he fried my Rover 200 engine whilst emissions testing; the temp gauge had failed en route and muppet revved the guts out of the engine trying to get a reading (though how the hell a gauge pointing below minimum could be misread is anyones guess..). Suffice to say the cooling system revolted against the mistreatment and spat its guts all over the brake tester to which he shot off round the block 'to cool it off' (I don't think there was any coolant left), tried to retest it then dumped it in the car park. When I got to it, there wasn't even enough coolant in it to spit back at me. I put 5 litres in just to get home... I'll let you work out what happened soon after. The owner of the place sent him off for an early lunch that day before I decked him.... Previous to that he was unable to restart one of my cars after stalling it on the ramp. The daft s*d had the choke out... |
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And you keep going back!
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Good god there's got to be more than one MOT station nearby surely |
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Good god there's got to be more than one MOT station nearby surely No, I haven't been back for two years but I needed an MOT pdq, they had space and my usual didn't. They do have two other testers who are top blokes, but they weren't there that day. As I said, retest over, never going back (and I'll let the owner know why....) |
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Well, quick retest today, this time he used his torch to check for corrosion (tap-tap-tap)  Anyway it passed. Not going back. Ever. |
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored
Rover 75 - Barge
MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer...
MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored
Project Minion........
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