The difference between Mot Stations

Jim@sea · Mar 2, 2019

My 1991 Defender had stood in storage for 9 years when I bought it, The day after I bought it on the way home I stopped at an Mot Station for an Mot and it passed. (obviously I had to fit a new battery)
Then after the Mot I drove it to my own storage half a mile away, and in the last year it has not been driven apart from being taken to another Mot station for a new Mot as I am getting ready to sell it.
So in the last year it has done virtually no mileage.
The new Mot station has done a list of faults including wanting new Track Rod Ends,
But surely the previous Mot station should have picked them up.
Just shows how standards vary.

raywin · Mar 2, 2019

It seems that some of them feel that the need to list something just to show they are looming. I had rust on my rear springs as an advisory this year and a couple of items listed as fails which were just the same when it passed last year.

dieseldog69 · Mar 2, 2019

Jim@sea said:
My 1991 Defender had stood in storage for 9 years when I bought it, The day after I bought it on the way home I stopped at an Mot Station for an Mot and it passed. (obviously I had to fit a new battery)
Then after the Mot I drove it to my own storage half a mile away, and in the last year it has not been driven apart from being taken to another Mot station for a new Mot as I am getting ready to sell it.
So in the last year it has done virtually no mileage.
The new Mot station has done a list of faults including wanting new Track Rod Ends,
But surely the previous Mot station should have picked them up.
Just shows how standards vary.

They often vary as a result of a new tester and or an inspection from VOSA.

My local testing station is very tough on vehicles and rightly so, it is his neck on the line in the event of passing a vehicle that leaves the station and gets a thorough going over by VOSA at a road side inspection and they find faults.

norseman · Mar 2, 2019

I'm not conversant with all the MOT directives but the phrases 'in the opinion of the tester' & 'at the time of testing' might answer your question.

Bantam1 · Mar 2, 2019

I took a transit van to a ministry test centre some years back.
It failed on something fairly simple, so simple I forget what it was but when I got it on the ramp at home and started prodding I found all sorts of problems that needed sorting in my opinion, including track rod ends.
Shocking!
I use one mot tester now. He is thorough and gives a run down on everything he finds but he also knows I will fix them.

Flossie · Mar 2, 2019

It's always been like that.
Nearly 40 yrs ago I had a mark 2 cortina estate, failed on 2 holes in an inner sill and wiper blades, did the work and took it back 4 days later but they were closed.
Went to another garage a couple of miles away because I just wanted the ticket ASAP and I had a new, much longer list!
Took it back to the original place when it opened and got the pass without doing any further work.

The difference between Mot Stations

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