Car i bought is rubbish.....

shaun_from_Africa

But if they are fitted then they must work.
The following is from the MOT inspection guide.

Inspection.

5. Fasten each belt locking mechanism and try to pull the locked sections apart. On retracting seat belts, check that with the mechanism fastened and the seat unoccupied, excess webbing is wound into the retracting unit. Note: Some types of retracting belt might need manual help before they retract

reason for failure.

a retracting mechanism does not retract the webbing sufficiently to remove all the slack from the belt with the locking mechanism fastened and the seat unoccupied

Harry_Flashman

Craig_Donny wrote: »

got my eye on a fiat punto grande

You really don't make life easy do you?

FIAT

Fix
It
Again
Tomorrow

:rotfl:

Craig_Donny

haha harry, they look really nice, the ones with stripes on anyway.

And i will have too see the machanic tomorrow anyway so i can ask him what he thinks and see if i can get him to write me a report. As i say i would be happy with just my money back so that i could buy a better car!

GemJar_2

be careful if it is a cat c or cat d, you might find out that you're not actually insured either- happened to us, was a right pain in the bum!

macman

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

But if they are fitted then they must work.
The following is from the MOT inspection guide.

Inspection.


reason for failure.

How old is the MOT cert?
They may have been working perfectly well at the time it was tested.

shaun_from_Africa

They may have been working perfectly well at the time it was tested.

I realise that macman, but the point I was trying to make is that if at the time of an MOT the seatbelt is faulty, then the car will fail the test due to it being unroadworthy.

So If when that car was sold to the OP the seatbelt wasn't working, the car couldn't legally be driven on the road, so it must have been unroadworthy at that time, so by selling it, the garage was breaking the law.