Happy Halloween! Forget the ghosts and ghouls banging on your doors, we’ve got some far scarier tales to share with you from some seriously spooked MOT testers. When you think...
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...
...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....
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...