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I MOTed my Cavalier last week and it failed on rusty brake pipes. Without doing any work on it the Cav went to a different MOT centre. This place passed the pipes but failed the car on it needing welding!
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Last Edit: Mar 3, 2005 23:05:11 GMT by ImpJimbo
BS Nymph
Singer Chamois Coupe
Series 3 Landy
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slater
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Dodgy MOT centres.slater
@slater
Club Retro Rides Member 78
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First time i had my escort MOTed it took about 5mins. The guy failed to notice the rear shocks were not bolted on and the floor was 50% seam sealer and 50% rust!
2nd time i took it to a differant garage, again the guy only looked at it for about 5mins. drove it in the bay, did emmissions, and looked underneath for about a min.
Must say its rather worrying that they only take 5mins to test a car!
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that happened to me on my golf
one place failed it on steering rack rod end and didnt say anything about a rear brake pipe
took it somewhere else when i fixed the rack on to be told the pipe is ok the rack is curse word when it was new!!?!?!!?!?!?!?!
wtf??
weird
as always two two different people two different answers doh
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Dodgy MOT centres.BenzBoy
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We used to get a mate to do our MOTs. Now he's sold the garage so we'll have to get proper ones!! Doh! ;D
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It does vary from place to place. Was really curse word about a couple of years back & if it wasn't for the fact the MOT was out & I needed the car daily I would have taken it further - wish I did now  Luckily I've found a place where I've gone for the past 2 years & the car has passed eveytime - this was on recommendation from a mate which I think is the best way to do it!! Another mate used to MOT all my cars up to about 4-5 years ago, until he left for pastures new & although it was nice getting a guaranteed pass for a 5 minute MOT test, all the advisory jobs he noted I never done because I knew he'd keep letting them go so therefore it got to the stage where I had to spend a month or more doing all these stupid little things every weekend to get it back up to scratch  ;D |
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I hate MOTs.
I argued my test once. A young trainee lad tried to fail me on a missing exhaust u-clamp and some loose back seats, plus worn out wipers. I didn't dare say anything till he started writing the list up for me to bring it back for them to fix it and I thought "Cheeky sod thinking I need them to fix it." and I asked for him to get the book out. Well indeedy bar a couple of worn out wipers the car was fine so I bought the wipers and buggered off never to return.
I have a good local place, very fair. They will fail you on anything dangerous but for instance if you car should have a cat, it's ok if it lives in the boot.
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Never had a bad experience with MOT centres (apart from them laughing at the rusty grot I bring them). Used to get them done by a guy who is an account holder at my dad's shop.  Last one on the Ashtray was at a local place who managed to break the headlamp unit when trying to adjust it. Oops. The guy said "I'll fix it!" OK I thought, and the car passed. A couple of weeks later I discovered how he'd fixed it when I came to fit a new buld and found a big bit of cardboard wedging the headlamp in place!  |
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A couple of weeks later I discovered how he'd fixed it when I came to fit a new buld and found a big bit of cardboard wedging the headlamp in place! Leave it & see if they fail it next year on that ;D ;D |
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i did mine for a battered set of capri laser rims ;D as no money swapped hands it was kinda destiuned to pass from the start.
it was firing on three cylinders, and the steering was (badly) veering to the left under braking, not to mention the headlights were only put in the day before and were completely out of alignment. (this was all about 3 days after i had rebiult it from its respray and wasnt in the best of conditions ;D)
passed with flying colurs ;D
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Leave it & see if they fail it next year on that ;D ;D Unfortunately the cardboard has now gone "walkies". If they'd fixed it properly then fine. But I know it will fail on that again as it's been "droopy" for ages. Oh and as its a 7-year old vauxhall it's probably rotten to curse word underneath too by now!  |
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my dad took my stietto for an mot just after i had finished the resto,the guy walked out to the car with him ,walked round it and asked my dad some questions about it,my dad said i had just finished rebuilding it .the guy then walked back into the office and wrote the ticket out.aaahhhh the old days ,weren't they great?
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