ABS sensor failed car MOT, where do i go next?

[Deleted User]

I had an airbag light on once and it failed an mot and cost me over £1000 and the year after that fault was removed from the list. I was gutted. With all these electronics things in cars to go wrong it can make buying used cars uneconomical. I would trade the Mondeo in for a smaller newer or even brand new car with at least a 3 year warranty.

takman

bill_the_bus wrote: »

Thats exactly as i read it but i am the one who will get pulled by a jobsworth lol. Will just drive if we really need to and print off a copy of that statement.
Thanks Bill

Just use this site to check the MOT register:

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-status

It will either say it has an MOT or not. You won't be pulled over for no MOT if it's recorded as having one on this system.

takman

Deleted_User wrote: »

I had an airbag light on once and it failed an mot and cost me over £1000 and the year after that fault was removed from the list. I was gutted. With all these electronics things in cars to go wrong it can make buying used cars uneconomical. I would trade the Mondeo in for a smaller newer or even brand new car with at least a 3 year warranty.

I wouldn't be driving a car with a faulty Airbag system. Is saving some money really worth it instead of having a life saving system operational in your car?. I'm surprised you didn't just remove the Airbag bulb if you just wanted it to go through MOT.

unforeseen

takman wrote: »

I wouldn't be driving a car with a faulty Airbag system. Is saving some money really worth it instead of having a life saving system operational in your car?. I'm surprised you didn't just remove the Airbag bulb if you just wanted it to go through MOT.

I assume from that statement that you would also refuse to travel in the front seat of a vehicle that didn't have them fitted..

EcoR1

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Iirc (I'm not a tester but try to keep up) it doesn't even have to be on an RFR does it? The scheme allows for a "dangerous" note on RFRs or advisories.

About the only scenario I've been able to think up where that might apply is a completely missing windscreen - no RFR to cover it, so can't be a fail, but pretty obviously dangerous (at least without goggles!)

Possibly, it's not something I use very often, it's normally when a brake pipe bursts on the rollers. And I have had one drive away afterwards. :shocked:

takman

unforeseen wrote: »

I assume from that statement that you would also refuse to travel in the front seat of a vehicle that didn't have them fitted..

If the vehicle doesn't have them fitted as standard then I have no problem with that. Otherwise you could extend that argument further and justify any safety system on your car being faulty because other vehicles don't have it fitted as standard.

If someone was injured in a car that u owned and one of the systems that could have helped prevent the severity of it was faulty because u wanted to save some money, would you happily be able to justify that to your family and friends?

Personally I like every system on any car I or my family own to be working correctly as the manufacturer intended, which is why I have a PC based diagnostic system to find faults and repair them myself.

Joe_Horner

EcoR1 wrote: »

Possibly, it's not something I use very often, it's normally when a brake pipe bursts on the rollers. And I have had one drive away afterwards. :shocked:

Many, many years ago in the 80s I may have been that customer in dad's old Rover P5. Single line brakes and a transmission brake for the handbrake & a pipe burst as I left the station (ticket already issued).

It was an interesting drive home but taught me a valuable lesson that "new MOT" doesn't guarantee "safe" because some things a tester just can't see!

EcoR1

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Many, many years ago in the 80s I may have been that customer in dad's old Rover P5. Single line brakes and a transmission brake for the handbrake & a pipe burst as I left the station (ticket already issued).

It was an interesting drive home but taught me a valuable lesson that "new MOT" doesn't guarantee "safe" because some things a tester just can't see!

Exactly. With the proliferation of engine, and indeed whole body, undertrays there's loads of safety critical stuff an MOT tester can't see.

droopsnoot

bill_the_bus wrote: »

Below is what is taken from Taken from the Gov.co.uk website

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Confused?? I am

Worth noting that until recently that site was actually saying that you were not allowed to drive the car if it has failed an MOT, even if your old certificate had not expired. This was not true, and it looks like they've corrected it, but they've still not made it particularly clear that you can continue to drive until the old certificate expires. I am in exactly the same position, failed the MOT on Monday but it doesn't expire until November 22nd. That's why I took it in early, to give myself time to sort it out.


BTW that does sound a lot for an ABS sensor. I failed on one a year or two ago, new aftermarket sensor (for an Audi) was £4.85, took about an hour to replace though that did include destroying the old one to get it out. So you can see they might be taking into account the difficulty of removing it, but to a ridiculous extent.

Joe_Horner

EcoR1 wrote: »

Exactly. With the proliferation of engine, and indeed whole body, undertrays there's loads of safety critical stuff an MOT tester can't see.

Back then we didn't have undertrays. But we did have underseal. Boy did we have underseal! We also had useful advice like this from the AA on how to deal with rusty sills:

http://dafmobile.ournet.org.uk/index.php/page/34.html

Amazing to think we survived really :rotfl: