2 'advisory' items on last MOT, only 1 this time, but no work done inbetween....

Raksha

Can anyone explain this one? My car (a 5 series BMW touring '95) passed it's MOT last year needing one exhaust bracket bush replacing, and had 2 advisorys, both suspension bushes (wording wasn't very specific).

#1 son is a trained BMW mechanic and said he'd have a look, but couldn't do the work as it would need a specialist tool (he's no longer in 'the trade'). Time being what it is, we found ourselves facing this years MOT date without having the work done, so decided to put it in again, at the same garage, same MOT tester and again it's passed (needed a new OSF sidelight bulb, supplied and fitted for £4.60). Only this time, there's only one advisory.........

How could this happen?

goldspanners

its all depends on the tester at the time,maybe he missed it, he was a human tester wasnt he?
they were advisories,not failures. if they were failures then it would be a different story.
i got an advisory one year for a brake imbalance,next year it passed no problem. (slightly different fault to a worn bush though).

Premier_2

When my car was 3 years old (about 12k miles), the MOT tester at the time said the steering rack was worn and only just passed.

I couldn't believe it. On a 3 year old car? (one year of which it had been laid up). I asked him to show me what he meant, but he declined.

There weren't any 'advisories' back then, but if there were I'm sure he would have issued one.

Over 10 years on, 100k more miles on the clock, and it's never been an issue ... or changed.

harveybobbles

Its all down to the tester that day. He may have got out of bed the wrong side.
Advisories are just that, nothing more, nothing less.

27col

I used to get advisories when I took my classic motor-cycles for MOT. I think that some of the time the tester used to write them just to show how he was being thorough.

Rolandtheroadie

I agree with col. Theres no concequence, it's only opinion and it looks good on the computer.

MX5huggy

Took a car from work for its MOT advisory issued on a tyre that had only done 100 miles there is rhyme or reason to it.

SailorSam

I'vej ust had a first time pass on my fiesta, yet last year the same Ford garage gave me an advisory on the hand brake.

anewman

I think it's quite common. Don't worry about it

harveybobbles

The annoying thing is from a car dealers point of view with advisories as the customer can now see it online. Which is fine, but if you get a picky customer who wants a 2nd hand car to be brand new then it can be a pain! So if our MOT guys down the road want to advice a point or two, they fail the car and something like a bulb or tyre along with the advice bit, then print off the pass cert the next day. This gets rid of the advisories

cyclonebri1

It's just standard inconsistancy between one tester and another as said. But It can be worse, you can have a car pass at one garage and fail at the one next door all on the same day, that's much more of a worry.

What I would add tho', if there was an issue with the void bushes or whatever, they will not have recovered on there own.;);)

We used to have a guy at work that put suspected faulty parts in a box in the stores, we called it his "get better box":rotfl: