MOT Advisory items - new car

custardy

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

If they won't fix known issues then you have to walk away. PLEASE

Advisories will pass, but for christs sake if they are accurate they mean that the car will fail next year and all will have to be addressed. Go for a better car and leave the shed with the garage.

tyres are serviceable items
a drag on the brakes can simply be from it sitting on the forecourt
so would free with use
the lip on the brakes is simply a sign of wear. I would expect the brakes ot have been used on a £4K car,wouldnt you?

interstellaflyer

custardy wrote: »

tyres are serviceable items

However, for tyres to be on advisory notice they would have to be close to the minimum tread marker meaning they should really be changed very soon.

custardy

interstellaflyer wrote: »

However, for tyres to be on advisory notice they would have to be close to the minimum tread marker meaning they should really be changed very soon.

no,they are showing signs the car has been sitting

Advises rear tyres weathered on outer sidewalls

pendulum

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Advisories will pass, but for christs sake if they are accurate they mean that the car will fail next year and all will have to be addressed. Go for a better car and leave the shed with the garage.

No. If advisories are accurate, they can still last many years before getting bad enough to fail.

As has been said, an advisory is only one man's opinion, and they can issue advisories for anything they like. Another MoT tester might take a look and decide that nothing is wrong. Calling the car a shed based on those advisories is ridiculous and telling the OP to go for a better car after they've already bought it is a bit late IMHO.

interstellaflyer wrote: »

However, for tyres to be on advisory notice they would have to be close to the minimum tread marker meaning they should really be changed very soon.

It's hard to take your opinion seriously when its clear you didn't even pay attention to the original post. The advisory was for cracking, not tread wear.

Hammyman

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Advisories will pass, but for christs sake if they are accurate they mean that the car will fail next year

Rubbish. One advisory for mine this year was frayed seatbelt. Its taken 157,000 miles to get to this point and it is far from frayed to the point it'll fail an MOT and it'll take another 100,000 miles before it does get to that point.

cyclonebri1

Hammyman wrote: »

Rubbish. One advisory for mine this year was frayed seatbelt. Its taken 157,000 miles to get to this point and it is far from frayed to the point it'll fail an MOT and it'll take another 100,000 miles before it does get to that point.

Yeah, and rusty brake pipes heal up on their own,

getmore4less

Tyres check year of manufacture they could have been on a long time, age of car and mileage might be a clue.

Binding, probably sitting around.

Disc check them, under min thickness is not an MOT fail

Lum

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Yeah, and rusty brake pipes heal up on their own,

Lucky this car doesn't have rusty brake pipes then!

The discs have corroded. This is because they are a chunk of metal with no paintwork. Look at the brake discs on your own car after a night of heavy rain and they will be showing spots of rust. After a few goes on the brakes the rust is scraped off and the discs are back to normal.

This car has been standing around for a while, so the rust will be thicker and take a bit longer to clear, hence the binding. A few good runs up to 70 followed by braking moderately hard should clear it up.

ALL cars that haven't moved for a while will have this happen, perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.


As for the tyres weathering, again, side effect of being standing for a while. Probably be fine, worst case scenario it will need new tyres, but guess what, the car will need new tyres at some point in it's future anyway!

Hammyman

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Yeah, and rusty brake pipes heal up on their own,

Have you seen my seatbelt? No. And there's not many cars that have steel brakepipes any more...

s_b

budget make tyres seem prone to sidewall cracking sooner than quality makes like michelin ,just like they seem to wear on the shoulders quicker too, with lots of meat still in the middle,its a shame i have to junk plenty of tyres for this that are otherwise serviceable
with regards sticking rear brakes the problem is that the asbestos free material used in brakes now seems to clog the pads and shoes up so the only true effective way to remove it is a strip down and either brake cleaner or my preferred method which is a quick rub up with 800 paper,if i was the seller i would do a strip and clean just for my own peace of mind as a sticking brake could boil the brake fluid on a long journey
a brake lip means that the discs are older than the pads and so long as they are still true is not a concern in the bigger picture