Scored brake disk and MOT

thescouselander

I have to take the car for MOT tomorrow and it has a scored brake disk. Can anyone tell me if this would be considered "excessive" for MOT purposes.

jeannieblue

No idea... what are the pads like?

Let the MOT tester advise, just make sure you take it somewhere sensible...

thescouselander

The pads are fine, the disks and pads were only replaced last year - there is plenty left on them.

jeannieblue

I can't think that you would have a problem. But I am not an MOT tester. They only look throught the wheels and the brakes have to be poor to fail.

May be someone will come on the thread with more something more helpful to advise you!

My gut feeling says they're ok

steveo3002

should be okay assuming it brakes straight...as in both wheels put out the same effort

thescouselander

Yeah, it seems to brake straight enough. At least I can't feel any tendency to pull to one side when braking.

Ginger_Nuts_2

If they cant see them they cant fail them, so as long as you dont have huge alloys on and it's visable dont worry. That is as long as the test on the rollers shows they are in balance and the level of braking is sufficent whcih shouldnt be a problem.

thescouselander

Ginger_Nuts wrote: »

If they cant see them they cant fail them, so as long as you dont have huge alloys on and it's visable dont worry. That is as long as the test on the rollers shows they are in balance and the level of braking is sufficent whcih shouldnt be a problem.

Unfortunately I have fairly large 18" alloys - the brake disks are clearly visible.

Wig

Ask in this forum
http://www.motester.co.uk/mot-qanda.html

Make sure you post into the public board not the one for the testers

roddydogs

How did it get like this in 1 year?

thescouselander

roddydogs wrote: »

How did it get like this in 1 year?

Either something (like a stone) has got stuck between the pad and disk or there is a hard bit of pad material lurking in the pad. Thats my guess anyway.