Something in my gut tells me its not good, put my mind at ease?

Hintza

interstellaflyer wrote: »

Yes they are, I had a car fail on a faulty front fog light.

I just had our car MOT'd and I was sitting in operating the lights and the front fogs were not tested.

tonyh66

most of the costs on that bill are labour charges. I don't think there are any idlers-tensioners on an alternator belt generally the tension is taken up by moving the altenator.
OP stop fretting about what you have been charged, get your bulb changed and find a small independent garage to do the work next year.

interstellaflyer

Hintza wrote: »

I just had our car MOT'd and I was sitting in operating the lights and the front fogs were not tested.

I'm only going on my experience, mind you it was a few years back, maybe things have changed

Iceweasel

Additional/optional front Fog lamps, Driving lamps or Spot lamps are not testable.

From the 2016 MOT Manual:

Additional or optional lamps are not included in
the inspection.

I don't think they ever have been.

BeenThroughItAll

tonyh66 wrote: »

most of the costs on that bill are labour charges. I don't think there are any idlers-tensioners on an alternator belt generally the tension is taken up by moving the altenator.
OP stop fretting about what you have been charged, get your bulb changed and find a small independent garage to do the work next year.

The vast majority of modern engines have the alternator, PS pump, AC compressor, etc solidly mounted, and tensioning is done by an automatic sprung tensioner. Has been the 'way it's done' for years now.

AdrianC

Iceweasel wrote: »

Additional/optional front Fog lamps, Driving lamps or Spot lamps are not testable.

From the 2016 MOT Manual:

Additional or optional lamps are not included in
the inspection.

I don't think they ever have been.

They haven't.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/518634/mot-inspection-manual-for-class-3-4-5-and-7-vehicles.pdf

If you were failed for a front fog not working, then you should have escalated it to DVSA, because testers's cannot make fails up. If it isn't in the Reasons for Rejection column explicitly, it cannot fail.

For the last decade or so, since computerisation, testers have to pick the fail item from the list.

mrmot

My car has 2 main beams per headlight, one outer, incorporated into a H4 dual filament bulb and the other on an inner H1 bulb. The inner ones are driving lamps built into the head lamp and are non testable.

You can have a nearside rear fog lamp showing white light to the rear and the tester can't fail it.

AdrianC

mrmot wrote: »

My car has 2 main beams per headlight, one outer, incorporated into a H4 dual filament bulb and the other on an inner H1 bulb. The inner ones are driving lamps built into the head lamp and are non testable.

Yes, if there's two main beams per side, and one is working while the other is out, then that would be a pass - but it's also a fairly unusual situation.

robotrobo

interstellaflyer wrote: »

Yes they are, I had a car fail on a faulty front fog light.

was your lights out?, or did they see you coming!.

your wrong , again.;)

pappa_golf

OP , you have recently moved to london , why not visit friends back in "the sticks" where labour may be more reasonable , most of those jobs could be completed in less than a morning , by a trusted "back st" garage