My recent mot I told my mate to put the advisories on the ticket as they had just had one of their guys suspended for a car he mot'd 6 WEEKS previous, i mean wtf???? I wasn't gonna let him take the flak if i got tugged by vosa
Possible new MOT regs..............
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My recent mot I told my mate to put the advisories on the ticket as they had just had one of their guys suspended for a car he mot'd 6 WEEKS previous, i mean wtf???? I wasn't gonna let him take the flak if i got tugged by vosa
That is fair enough but the chances of me ever getting pulled over by VOSA are next to none. More chance of me driving to the moon in my Cougar right now than me ever getting pulled over given the under 50 miles I have actually used my car since the last MOT.
Oh I see, well I have never seen them in my area in my whole life time. I thought you was saying you had been pulled over and they did an inspection on your car Tony.
No literally I passed them as i went in, the guys were still trying to work out who was gonna cover
Random inspections are pretty much par for the course. My tester is a fair and honest man (even though he jokes about Jinxy to his apprentice; "We DO NOT fail this car!") who has never had any complaints against him, but even he gets inspected once every few months.
And I'm not talking about some bloke with a clipboard coming in to watch him. Oh no. They come in as random punters with a car that may be perfectly legal, may have advisories, or might actually be a fail*.
Think "mystery shopper" or in your case, "restaurant critic".
*I presume they trailer these in, maybe one road over?
BIB I don't see why you would assume that;
(1) Any random public car that could be a fail could be driven to an MOT.
(2) A car prepared to have know faults is less dangerous in use than one where the driver has no knowledge what faults might exist.
(3) Being government inspectors gives them exception.
Late edit: That's not to say it wouldn't be the case, but it would be for practical rather than legal reasons.
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Its a good point though, they couldnt bring in a car that is dangerous by driving it there. Imagine the liabilty issues if something were to go wrong on the way and be involved in a RTC
Im guessing here but they would have to be controlled faluts, so its going to be more 'minor' issues such as worn bushes, damaged gaitors etc rather than the track rod end is almost snapped in half or a major falut with the braking system - more like pads are low but not yet unsafe
Im guessing here but they would have to be controlled faluts, so its going to be more 'minor' issues such as worn bushes, damaged gaitors etc rather than the track rod end is almost snapped in half or a major falut with the braking system - more like pads are low but not yet unsafe