I took my Corsa (Daily driver) for an MOT last week and it failed on a few little things.

 

Handbrake cable,

Rear Wheel bearing,

Wobbly head light,

2 front tyres need replacing, (One said to be worn, OK, and said to have "Something stuck on it")

Number plate bulb blown,

 

I didnt agree with the 2 tyres needing replacing, but 1 did.

 

I fixed the Handbrake cable, rear bearing, wobbly head light and replaced 1 of the two tyre, (the tyre which I thought was OK I left on), and the number plate bulb.

 

I took it some where else to get MOTd again as it was over a week from when it was last done and it failed on,

 

Welding on one of the sills

Rear brake balance is wrong,

side light not working

 

But nothing wrong with the tyre which I thought to be OK.

 

Why are the 2 MOTs so different? OK the bulb could have blown inbetween MOTs, but I really doubt a rusty hole would appear in just over a week. And what about the unbalanced rear brakes. Brakes dont become unbalanced in the same amount of time.

 

Who the hell can you trust for your MOT?

 

2 years ago I took my Nissan for an MOT and it failed on some welding. I then too it to some where else because I was again not happy with them. I showed the MOT place where they failed the welding, and I was told that was factory welding and there was nothing wrong with it.

 

Stuart

lots of mot stations are after your buisness thats why it fails, there must be thousands of people who just ask the garage to sort it. There is a place near me charges 10 quid for an mot but your certain to fail on emissions and headlight aim because thats something you cant do yourself unless you have access to the proper equipment. Best just to ask around your mates and find someone in the trade who will just give it the once over and pass it anyway.

Paul

YOu used to be able to use the government run stations, you got a strict, consistent result, but they had nothing to gain from failing anything. As far as I know all these have gone now.

Best just to ask around your mates and find someone in the trade who will just give it the once over and pass it anyway.

Paul

 

:hyper: :hyper: :p :cool: ;)

 

MOT by phone! :rofl:

Its best to be freindly with a mechanic who will bend the rules for you, these people generally give you the truth. I have never had any problems with my MOT station.

theres a few places down here that just do MoTs and not repairs so they have no real reason to fail you to gain work, havent had any problems with them from about 3 MoT's.

I just told the place to do the changes now.

 

The head lamp was aiming low because its one with a motor on it and I fixed the motor. When I turned it on the light motor moved so it knocked it out.

 

The blulb probably went when I was fixing the wobbly light. The tyre he said he would put the spare in if its OK, if not he will take it next door for a part worn and chaning nothing to do it.

 

To be honest I have been a few MOT places and I trust 3, and the ones which I thought where iffy, I got a strange feeling when I leave the car there.

Historically I've sent the funday cars to the garage with a mechanic (known to the garage) they know if they fail it they won't get the work, seems to improve the pass rate.

 

Mind you I once put a classic in to an old MOT station (in a hurry) when they tried the sidelights they didn't come on, took working the switch a number of times before they worked. "You don't drive this at night?", they asked. "Nope", "Ahh well get it fixed for next year". At another garage I took in a v8 engined beast and it failed the emissions by about twice the legal limit - we both stood there watching the gauge and the tester got his mate to blip the throttle. CO2 dropped to within the permissable limits as the revs bounced down to about 400. "That's a pass" he cried ripping the sensor out sharpish.

 

Sorry to hear about you troubles Stuart. What you need is a nice black auto Zed to play in whilst yours is being rebuilt. Now I can help you here...

Now all MOT testers have a different view of whats a pass and whats not. Whereas someone will pass something someone else probably wont. It's up to their discretion. If the second tester prodded the sill harder than the first one then he could have caused the hole and therefor failed it. Brake balance could have failed in that time if the compensator valve went down in that time. "Tyre had something stuck to it" Maybe it fell off?

 

HTH

 

Ivan

LOL!! rear brakes out of balance isnt even a reason for rejection!! :rolleyes: