Car in for MOT

[Deleted User]

loskie wrote: »

"Laughable" yes the garage will be laughing at your stupidity.

*slow claps*

My stupidity? Get over yourself, it was on when I got the car. Moron.

worried_jim

Deleted_User wrote: »

If I did that it would look like I'm spying on them and could be weird about it.

I hate waiting for the garage to call too. Glad it's not just me. :rotfl:

silverwhistle

Deleted_User wrote: »

Advisories are laughable though, turns out one tyre is a snow tyre on an axle yet that tyre was on last year and they never picked it up then. :rotfl:.

And nor did you when you bought it. I'm not a particularly mechanically competent female but I can do basic visual checks (fluid levels, wiper blades, tyres etc).


Waiting is indeed a pain, but a phone call just after lunch would have been a simple thing to do. If I needed the car back that's what I'd have done, although as I sometimes don't need it at the weekend I don't have tosweat it.

[Deleted User]

silverwhistle wrote: »

And nor did you when you bought it. I'm not a particularly mechanically competent female but I can do basic visual checks (fluid levels, wiper blades, tyres etc).


Waiting is indeed a pain, but a phone call just after lunch would have been a simple thing to do. If I needed the car back that's what I'd have done, although as I sometimes don't need it at the weekend I don't have tosweat it.

I can do all that and the tyre is still in good condition.

And if it was illegal it would have failed on it.

facade

Deleted_User wrote: »

Advisories are laughable though, turns out one tyre is a snow tyre on an axle yet that tyre was on last year and they never picked it up then. :rotfl:


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If it is a different size to the other it is a fail.


If the only difference is it has a little picture of a mountain on it but the other doesn't, then it is none of their business, and shouldn't really be an advisory AFAIK, although they can point it out if they want.

[Deleted User]

facade wrote: »

If it is a different size to the other it is a fail.


If the only difference is it has a little picture of a mountain on it but the other doesn't, then it is none of their business, and shouldn't really be an advisory AFAIK, although they can point it out if they want.

Yep same size tyre.

Soot2006

worried_jim wrote: »

I hate waiting for the garage to call too. Glad it's not just me. :rotfl:

Same. It's a bit silly isn't it? I have got better at calling over the year and I always call after lunch to ask what the score is so I can plan my afternoon. I don't normally care as have courtesy car anyway but when they kept my 3.5t van I only had a normal courtesy car so did have to chase them a bit. But I like the people at my garage and trust them and that's sometimes more important than timing!

droopsnoot

I got resigned to garages not calling me, I think the only exception was when I used to take it into the main dealer for servicing. One local specialist was a pain for it - I could only talk to one person about the work being done, but that wasn't the person who was actually doing it. And they'd wait until I went to collect the car before telling me there were things they'd recommend I had done, where if they'd just phoned me earlier, I could have agreed or declined and had it done at the same time - little things, not stuff that required major work. It required some co-ordination to arrange lifts back and forth to take it to them, so it was really inconvenient to just "pop back next week". They're still flourishing, though, so either they've changed or no-one else minds.

Noree

facade wrote: »

If it is a different size to the other it is a fail.


If the only difference is it has a little picture of a mountain on it but the other doesn't, then it is none of their business, and shouldn't really be an advisory AFAIK, although they can point it out if they want.

It was a pointless advisory. DVSA would agree. Not required on an MOT ticket.

It’s advisories like this which fuels DVSA’s imminent change of removing advisories all together from testing.

loskie

Of course it's not a pointless advisory. It will give uneven braking in inclement weather if the winter tyre is doing its job.
Yet LeeUK seems to know better, although he does not handle criticism very well.