Passed its MOT

The rangie passed its mot with only the headlights needing adjusted!!!!

Just need to get the gasket / engine sorted now!!!!

joebte said:

The rangie passed its mot with only the headlights needing adjusted!!!!

Just need to get the gasket / engine sorted now!!!!

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WHY is it thast EVERY fookin time you get "Oh!! you need yer headlights adjusting" ...ITS BOLLOX!!!!

I tried this once .. took my Disco in fer a pre MOT check ...It needed its headlights adjusting ..So WE DID EM!!!

Then took it to a different MOT station & FOOK ME .. they tell me it needs it fookin Headlights adjusting!!!!!


UTTER BOLLOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any decent MOT garage would tweak the lights whilst they are checking them, takes about a minute a side, less time than writing it down.
It's all a way to make extra money!!.......GREEDY GITS
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if the guy doing my mot said headlights where out, i just tell him fix the fecks, if you not happy with them..[easy]

My tester said lights were out a couple of tests ago, I said it was physically impossible since the front end of the car hadn't be touched since last MOT, he gave the offending light a swift tap on the lens, rechecked and passed it!

I reckon its another fiddle to give yu a fail cert. The local MOT guys are using the phrase "Wipers not working effectively" - how can they tell indoors , just using washer jets.

The guy I always use is at a Peugot dealer, so I can be sure he's not looking for the extra work and I get a fair test. The one time I did use an independent, cause the usual guy was fully booked, I ended up with a huge list of advisories, none of which actually needed any attention to pass the next 3 MOT's!

kernowdragon said:

I ended up with a huge list of advisories, none of which actually needed any attention to pass the next 3 MOT's!

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i find advisories to be a great help, and a sign of a helpful tester

Do not get caught out with MOT centres who just want to fleece you!!! Save your money and your hair, just take your RR to a local government MOT test centre, they will test it without any ulteria motive!!! I have list a few below but just google it for yourself.

Government MOT test centres open to the public:

• WYMAS (West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service)

• Essex County Council, Coval Lane, Chelmsford – 01245 435108 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01245 435108 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• Morpeth, Northumberland, www.northumberland.gov.uk/drftp/2808.asp.

• Factory Lane, Croydon, Surrey.

• Banbury, Oxfordshire – search under MOT on the Cherwell DC website.

• [possibly…] Ambulance Station near Magic Roundabout, Swindon

• County Transport, Ripley Road, Ambergate, Derbyshire, DE56 2ER – 01773 856667 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01773 856667 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• County Transport, Brimington Road North, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 9BE – 01246 450705 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01246 450705 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• County Transport, Halstead Garage, Dove Holes, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 8BJ – 01298 813141 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01298 813141 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• Near Wetherby just outside Thorpe Arch trading estate between York and Leeds

• GMAS (Greater Manchester Ambulance Service), Walmsley Road, Bury Station.

• Bedfordshire County Council Vehicle Depot, London Road, Bedford – 01234 327369 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01234 327369 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (now privatised and run by Balfour Beatty Plant Services but the staff are unchanged)

• Thamesdown Bus Garage, Corporation Street, Swindon. ·Medway Council – 01634 306000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01634 306000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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• Westside Motors at the junction of Lanark Road and Inglis Green Road, EH13, Scotland (not CC but apparently v. honest and fair)

• Edinburgh City Council, CEC Fleet Services, Gorgie, Russell Road – 0131 337 2307 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0131 337 2307 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (choose option 1 for their workshops) OR City Fleet Services, 38 Russell Road, Edinburgh – 0131 347 1950 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0131 347 1950 end_of_the_skype_highlighting …….which one is it guys?

• Wandsworth Council, South London – 0208 871 6761 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0208 871 6761 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• Colchester Borough Council, MOT Testing & Vehicle Servicing, Unit 8 Westside Centre, London Road, Stanway, Colchester, CO3 8PH – 01206 282624 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01206 282624 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• The bus depot in Plymouth

• Inverurie, Aberdeen – 01467 627538 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01467 627538 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (Alistair Smith)

• www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/web/residents.nsf/html/5AZKPF?OpenDocument.

• Mintlaw, Aberdeen – 01771 623197 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01771 623197 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (Robert Bruce) www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/web/residents.nsf/html/5AZKPF?OpenDocument

• Inverurie, Aberdeen – 01569 763274 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 01569 763274 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (Dave Adie) www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/web/residents.nsf/html/5AZKPF?OpenDocument

• Nottinghamshire County Council, Rolleston Drive Workshops, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 7JE – 0115 956 7420 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0115 956 7420 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

• St. Helen's, Merseyside www.sthelens.gov.uk/council/services/councilservices.nsf/All/95FE28C11AC C80256CC900550FF7?opendocument&highlight=mot,t esting

• North London, there is on in Enfield- Carterhatch lane

NB: Apparently Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Merton, Ealing and the London Ambulance Service all DO NOT carry out MOTs

I take mine to Lancs Ambulance service in Blackpool ......

I once took the Mrs's MGF to a place in Fleetwood he FAILED it on upper & lower Sus bushes, Exhaust, Emmissions & 3 wheel bearings....

I drove straight out & up to Blackpool Ambulance station & got it re-MOT'ed ... it PASSED with NO advisories......

Contacted VOSA & they sent a "Project" car in ... IT FAILED on LOADS OF THINGS

Unfortunatly for the garage it had just been "Repaired" by VOSA .. & they took the MOT station license away ... (They STILL aint got it back & that was 5 years ago!!!)

take ya lights off so he cant test em...

Many years ago got my Carlton done at Croydon, cos I worked for the Council then - it stalled on the ramp during the emissions test, then wouldn't start again - very red faced I had to help them push it off - they didn't let me forget that for a few years...