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  • Ganga
    Ganga Posts: 4,253 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Mine also had an advisory re- engine oil leak,does not use any and no drips on the drive,it is a 54 plate astra so not unexpected or causing sleepless nights.
  • migger02
    migger02 Posts: 27 Forumite
    AdrianC wrote: »
    No. The code simply tells you which bit of the MOT tester manual is being referenced.
    https://www.mot-testing.service.gov.uk/documents/manuals/class3457/Section-8-Nuisance.html#section_8.4



    All you know from that is that it's not bad enough to fail. It's an 11yr old car...

    A leak can be trivial - I had a bad leak, enough to take the dipstick from max to min in <1,000 miles, covering the engine bay and leaving obvious traces wherever the car was parked. It was simply a split rubber hose which cost a few pounds and took half an hour to change.


    Yeah, it is worth to replace those parts if haven't in a long time to save some future headache.
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