MOT Question

Keith

jeannieblue wrote: »

keith,

If any of that was untrue and proven, you should complain to VOSA. Otherwise, all the idiots won't get pulled up and make it rough on the rest of us that are doing a good and fair job.

If I'd taken the advice when it first failed I should of appealed. But I considered the fact that some of the items on the fail could fail it, so saved my cash to repair it.

As it became obvious that the tester had taken the !!!!, it was simply too late to do anything.

When I had it tested again this week and the tester pointed out the loose steering rack it's made me so furious with the first place that I wish I could do something however, I'm time barred and can't.

Conor wrote: »

How did you get it past the emissions?

The test center refused to supply the emissions results, as I didn't ask for them at the time of the fail. My own fault for not realising cars without cats get the little slip. So...

Without access to a gas analyser I had to go back to basics, renewing the igntion amp, a sender for the ECU which tells it the temp of the engine (I guess like a choke), new HT leads, replaced the afm with a spare and slightly !!!!!! the timing.

The tester commented that it was fine, perhaps it could do with having the injectors cleaned but it was way under the limits.

anewman wrote: »

Park brake efficiency 10%. Hope you not been parking on hills

It's way over the acceptable limit with 16%, I should of asked what the limit was, on the retest it failed that again. Turns out some !!!! forgot to reconnect the handbrake cable to one of the calipers! :eek:

Not dressed for car work, I asked if I could borrow some tools and removed the caliper and refitted the handbrake cable

Quickly returned for a free retest by driving back into the test center and I came out with my certificate.