Hi All,

After a recent set back with attempting to bond my rear spoiler to tailgate, the ms polymer adhesive never set :angry:

 

I was wondering if my Z would pass the MOT with the holes in the tailgate?

 

(the holes being the original spoiler mounting holes, 6 small holes and the letter box size cut out)

 

Thanks

 

 

:shuriken:

NOT TRUE...A sharp edge of any sort will fail.Take a car to the mot without a front bumper and bumper irons still on,it will fail!Any sharp edges will fail,if its possible a pedestrian can hurt themself on it.Bootspoiler holes wont fail!,unless the holes were ragged with rust and had sharp edges.My garage mot preps cars weekly.Even if your arches or wings are holed with sharp edges,some gaffa tape covering it would let you pass the test.Drilled spoiler holes wont fail.Bumper irons,covered in foam padding WILL pass.Common sense is all it takes.

 

Im afraid this true and any garage that fails a sharp edge otherwise is operating outside of Vosa,s testing guidelines and should be brought to book,unless of course you know better,your garage guys need some training by the sounds of it as it sounds like they and you are not sure of the correct Mot standard required.Vosa do offer courses and id strongly suggest you and your guys enrol so you dont waste anymore of your customers money with work done that wasnt needed.You need to familiarise yourself with the testers manual before spouting myths about testing,i expect you still think your clever to remove the bold spare tyre so a car wont fail or the "if its fitted it must work" load of shit ffs.

i always wondered how some owners managed to get away with the fins on the front corners of their zeds . not sure what they are called . ive always thought that they could slice someones leg open and for that reason wouldnt pass a mot. you live and learn all the time . its good that we have people on that are testers to sort the fact from fiction .

Im afraid this true and any garage that fails a sharp edge otherwise is operating outside of Vosa,s testing guidelines and should be brought to book,unless of course you know better,your garage guys need some training by the sounds of it as it sounds like they and you are not sure of the correct Mot standard required.Vosa do offer courses and id strongly suggest you and your guys enrol so you dont waste anymore of your customers money with work done that wasnt needed.You need to familiarise yourself with the testers manual before spouting myths about testing,i expect you still think your clever to remove the bold spare tyre so a car wont fail or the "if its fitted it must work" load of shit ffs.

What work,what money,what the f*ck???a strip of tape over a hole?LOL.My whole point is,regardless what 100 mot testers say or do,there are many testers that will fail a car or add it as an advisory over something like that (ok,its not in the book,we KNOW this,,right or wrong,but they DO fail)I said in the first place,if your worried it might fail,tape it up.For the sake of a few mins taping something,if you have an arsey tester that fails it(rightly or wrongly!!!),most people wont bother asking for an appeal form and demanding a re-test.What a tester calls damages might be a missing part to another tester.Im not argueing.I know the book.

Im not a tester,you dont need to be a tester to read the manual.I am a garage owner and have been in the trade for 15 years or alittle more and been around cars alot longer.I dont need pub information,I learnt my trade through experience,not listening to tw9ts who do use pub information on the internet ;) x

 

Is this garage successful ?...............your only a registered user ?:laugh:

Is this garage successful ?...............your only a registered user ?:laugh:

:laugh: i only joined at the beginning for the keyring and 2stickers!lol

:laugh: i only joined at the beginning for the keyring and 2stickers!lol

 

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Yeah i can totally agree. But i bet if you take our car to 5 differant garages i bet 2 out of the 5 will do somthing totally differant or miss things off the list etc.

 

That what im trying to say :wink:

 

 

 

Yep, had this recently with my Hilux; no sharp edges but still different opinions by two different garages.

 

I took my truck into work recently and got it up on the ramps, then had one of the LAD guys check it over for his un-biased oppinion.

To be fair, he spent a good hour going over it and said that mechanically it would be fine apart from an O/S track rod end and upper ball joint which would need replacing.

 

With that knowledge in hand I booked it into Kwik Fit, who had an offer on.

 

Low and behold it failed on 7 points.

 

I went back to the LAD guy and asked his opinion on what Kwik Fit had picked it up on.

He walked and talked me through the 'Kwik Fit Fictitious List' showing clearly what was and was not wrong with the truck and went to great lengths to demonstrate how the Kwik Fit examiner had been wrong to fail it on 6 of the 7 points, highlighting that the upper ball joint that he had pointed out during his initial inspection, hadn't actually been picked up on by Kwik Fit?

 

I didn't return to Kwik Fit, I booked it in with another garage, that wasn't so local, for another MOT, and would you believe it, it failed on an O/S track rod end and an upper ball joint as predicted by the LAD guy.

 

The replacement parts were ordered and paid for + £55 labour, job done.

 

Kwik Fit later stated that it would only charge 50% of the original price for the re-test and were investigating?

Yep, had this recently with my Hilux; no sharp edges but still different opinions by two different garages.

 

I took my truck into work recently and got it up on the ramps, then had one of the LAD guys check it over for his un-biased oppinion.

To be fair, he spent a good hour going over it and said that mechanically it would be fine apart from an O/S track rod end and upper ball joint which would need replacing.

 

With that knowledge in hand I booked it into Kwik Fit, who had an offer on.

 

Low and behold it failed on 7 points.

 

I went back to the LAD guy and asked his opinion on what Kwik Fit had picked it up on.

He walked and talked me through the 'Kwik Fit Fictitious List' showing clearly what was and was not wrong with the truck and went to great lengths to demonstrate how the Kwik Fit examiner had been wrong to fail it on 6 of the 7 points, highlighting that the upper ball joint that he had pointed out during his initial inspection, hadn't actually been picked up on by Kwik Fit?

 

I didn't return to Kwik Fit, I booked it in with another garage, that wasn't so local, for another MOT, and would you believe it, it failed on an O/S track rod end and an upper ball joint as predicted by the LAD guy.

 

The replacement parts were ordered and paid for + £55 labour, job done.

 

Kwik Fit later stated that it would only charge 50% of the original price for the re-test and were investigating?

 

You should have contacted VOSA :sneaky2:, they are there to make sure that MOT stations arent failing things incorrectly as well as correctly identifying faults.

Thanks to all for your feedback and advice

 

I'll gaffer tape up all the holes and get it booked in for its MOT as soon as the snows cleared up!

Thanks to all for your feedback and advice

 

I'll gaffer tape up all the holes and get it booked in for its MOT as soon as the snows cleared up!

So after informed advice from three people in the know as it were you,ll "gaffer tape " up the holes on some blokes say so ffs.Wonder why i bother sometimes,why ask if you dont listen :headvswal

dont burst a blood vessel jimmer. upto him at the end of the day... you can only advise people will have to learn to take it or leave it. :/ nm eh

Sorry, I didn't mean any offence

 

I understand it wouldn't fail its MOT on the spoiler holes, it would fail on sharp edges caused by corrosion or damage

 

The gaffer tape is purely to keep the elements out of the car