MOT Failure- I m lost!! pls help anyone..

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ohyeahitssorcy wrote: »

What exactly affording to run your car has got to do with anyone on here is beyond me the OP

What was it about; " I cannot afford another car, neither can I afford £200 on a car that has 20 advisory warnings on MOT report as well. I can be without a car for a while but then how shall I sell my car, who will buy it without MOT. " that you didn't understand?

goldspanners

worse case scenario

headlight here

brake pipes can be made to suit your vehicle by most garages for a not a lot of dosh,but if you need a flexi hose then heres a flexi hose.

£200 is a lot for the work you describe,£120 max,absoloute max for this work to be done,supply the headlight unit yourself i you can find one that fits,like the one in my first link if its the same.

vaio

debtblue wrote: »

....... Here is what is required to get MOT sorted:

1.Front position lamp not in good working order
2. Front brake hose excessively deteriorated
3. Offside Front brake hose excessively deteriorated

thanks for your advice in advance

Front position lamp is sidelight, probably a 50p bulb, the other two are brake hoses, £5-10 each to buy and an hour for someone to fit.

Should be under £100 all in at your local friendly back street garage, sounds like you have another cheap years motoring ahead of you

petrolhead69

brake hoses dont completely deteriorate over a year, they must have been an advisory at the last mot, so why didn`t you get them fixed instead of driving around like that for a year? and advisory list is not a list of things to be ignored, it is a list of thing that in the testers opinion are not dangerous enough on the day of the test to fail, but are likely to become dangerous later. If you cant afford to properly safely maintain a car get the bus. Only taclking repairs that make a car immediately unfit for the road once a year is not proper safe maintenance IMO

ohyeahitssorcy

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What was it about; " I cannot afford another car, neither can I afford £200 on a car that has 20 advisory warnings on MOT report as well. I can be without a car for a while but then how shall I sell my car, who will buy it without MOT. " that you didn't understand?

Neither did you by the looks of it unless there is an invisible few lines that only you and someone else can see asking if anyone thinks he can afford to run his car
So just because he cannot afford £200 this month he cannot afford a car and should get a bus pass or a bike? how very narrow minded

debtblue wrote:

how shall I sell my car, who will buy it without MOT?

That was what debtblue originally asked so how about answering the bl00dy question instead of posting negative comments that serve noone.

I have got the car serviced 2 times last year and got it winter checked as well, no issues ever cropped up

Seems to me the person doing his servicing should have picked this up if they were that bad i would have so it doesnt seem like he is not maintaining his car in the slightest

ariba10

Do the place that you take the car to for the MOT do the repairs?

I learned a long time ago to get my MOT done at a place that do not do repairs.

Then they have nothing to gain on failing it.

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ohyeahitssorcy wrote: »

That was what debtblue originally asked so how about answering the bl00dy question instead of posting negative comments that serve noone.

You need to visit Specsavers urgently, I gave that advice in my first post on this thread.:(

As in; " You could list it on eBay for spare or repair without an MOT. "

Which was I believe constructive and helpful.

spike7451

My 10 year old Pug 206 failed it's MOT last Nov because the garage I paid to do a pre MOT !!!!!!ed up the headlight bulb & the MOT center could'nt test the light.so for a £2.50 bulb it cost me £30ish. (£15 for the3 retest & £15 to get it put right,in all £60ish)
The garage refused to accept responsibility because it was a bulb.
I was unemployed at the time but I knew the cost's of getting the car thru it's MOT,so from the date I lost my job (company restructured) 14 months ago,I put £5-10 aside to pay for the car out of my DSS as I need a car due to where I live.

spike7451

ariba10 wrote: »

Do the place that you take the car to for the MOT do the repairs?

I learned a long time ago to get my MOT done at a place that do not do repairs.

Then they have nothing to gain on failing it.

Over here in N.I,MOT's are done by Government owned & ran test centers & they WILL fail you for the slightest thing.
It's a nice little earner for them.My car's have never passed first time despite me getting pre MOT's done at reputable garages & steam cleaning the car before the MOT & being regulary serviced.
A few years ago,my Pug failed because a brake valve needed a spray of WD40.

buglawton

Not just hose replacement but have to then top up & bleed the brake fluid. They are probably quoting 3 hours work at normal price. Since people who nurse elderly cars (as I did for years and still do on 2nd car) save buckets on depreciation on newer cars, £200 ought to be affordable and acceptable.