Your questions answered: Should I be failing defective stop lamps?
Q. A trader presents cars for test with defective high level stop lamps. He makes no attempt to repair them but says the lamp is permanently disconnected - in the...
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Trialling headlamp aim
...Initial results are encouraging, but a full analysis of the trial results is awaited. If the outcome is positive, the trial will form the basis of a proposal for change....
Clocking up the mileage
As of 18 November 2012, MOT certificates - VT20s - show the mileage of the vehicle for the last three VT20 certificates issued, along with the mileage for the current...
Three mileages odometer history
...a failure to follow laid down procedures: · Do not use a database to populate job cards or for obtaining a vehicle’s VIN. Any error in inputting the VRM will...
Horror story: Feeling bushed?
...says “how do people drive their vehicles in this condition, as this is a major risk for road safety I failed it for excessive movement of the wishbone bush”. We...
Your questions answered: LED combination lamps
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Bikes, trikes, and quads, Your questions answered
...fitted at the time of test. Unfortunately, there is not a specific Reason for Rejection for this, so we require that you use - the illumination of the lamp is...
Your questions answered: If a cross member is heavily corroded is it a fail?
...for Rejection. Only if the cross member corrosion was so severe that the security of the engine mounting bracket was compromised to the extent that it was likely to become...
Horror story: Worn to the cord
...clearly not been checked for some time. The owner brought the car in complaining it was making a noise and the steering wasn’t right. What they found sent them running...
Horror story: A bad egg
We often get asked about bulges in tyres and when do they constitute an MOT failure. Well the manual gives a reason for rejection which states “a tyre has: a...
Horror story: An extra spring
Notice anything different about the rear of this Ford Fiesta Courier? Surely this vehicle usually has a torsion bar suspension. Andy Black of ABs MOTs in Penrith sent us this...