hi room, when you take your car in for its MOT do they check your "previous" on the MOT web site for things like advisories or serious faults or do they look at the car at the time of the MOT as a blank canvass as it were ? thanks ....zoo
{dropped make/model of car as this is a general question, and not make/model specific}
Edited by Pugugly on 01/05/2008 at 19:41
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Their role is to examine the vehicle to ensure that it complies the items stipulated in the Testers manual and if OK issue the ticket.
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The answer then is "NO".
if thats the case then i will have to scrap it
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then i will have to scrap it
Why?
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"NO" to checking it's history.
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"does not compute"
I can't see why NOT checking previous would cause you to scrap it.
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There are clearly "Unknown unknowns" here....
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The very worst that can happen, even if the examiner did peruse the old records, is that he might pay especial attention to failure and near-failure points in the past.
But assuming that you have put them right, what is the problem?
Or are you saying there was something very dodgy last time, which you managed to scrape through with a bit of cosmetic bodging, but now you are scared he will find , especially if given a hint by looking at the previous results?
But in my experience they don't pay any attention to previous advisories, even ones they have themselves issued a few weeks previously and the car is going in for a retest on other items.
I once had an advisory for a supposedly missing exhaust heat shield. There never was one, but the examiner decided there should have been. When I took the car back for a retest (tyre, new wiper blades, track rod end) he wasn't interested in the heat shield. No one since has ever mentioned it.
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There are clearly "Unknown unknowns" here....
These can be downgraded slightly to a "known unknown" category, see:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=60612&...f
MoT advisory - advise please? - zookeeper Fri 22 Feb 08 19:48
"when you get an advisory at an MOT does that mean " get it put right or will fail it next time round" do MOT stations always ...... reason i asked my misses motor will need an MOT in may and it has an advisory for corroded brake lines so i want to get them done pronto ....cheers "
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Yipes!
Corroded brake pipes and they are still driving it? Or perhaps he wants rid of his missus!! ;)
It won't cost that much to get 'em done, not worth scrapping the car if thats all thats wrong with it, surely?!
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they have to advise on anything like that to cover their behinds
have you inspected the corroded pipes? if its very minor you could wire brush and underseal them , they cant scrape the underseal off to inspect it
and if in any doubt at the mot they would have failed it if unsafe
a roll of new pipe and the flaring tool will cost under £40 , £10 for fluid so its not worth scrapping an otherwise good car for it
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a roll of new pipe and the flaring tool will cost under £40 £10 for fluid so its not worth scrapping an otherwise good car for it
Having worked in R&D for a former disc brake manufacturer I can tell you that hand-flared pipes are risky ~ the flare can easily break off. It's far safer to fit "genuine spares" pipe assemblies which have machine-made flares.
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i cant believe the car passed the MOT this morning, well it actually failed on the indicator bulbs , apparently the coloured coating had come off so the chap replaced them for me there and then £50 all in including the test fee, all the emmissions were spot on , the chap who tested it said you would be lucky to get readings like that on a new car, i'm well chuffed , i was worried it would fail miserably having been t boned on the motorway in january , obviously these korean cars aint as bad some people think... thanks again for the replies ......zoo
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