I still find it difficult to understand
why anybody would want a car without at least this yearly basic safety check
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ampwhu wrote:this subject is getting rather boring......
if you know how to work on your car and it doesn't need an MOT from november onwards........ don't lose 2 minutes thinking about it. it's a waste of your time thinking about something that is irrelevent.
if you're not mechanically minded and normally get your car fixed in a garage, then have an MOT as usual.
les wrote:If dangerous I understand it shouldn't leave the garage, is that right?
I dont remember it being £50.00?, I think in September I paid £28.00.bmcecosse wrote:Well done! I know my car is safe - it's the waste of £50 that bothers me.......
drivewasher wrote:ampwhu wrote:this subject is getting rather boring......
if you know how to work on your car and it doesn't need an MOT from november onwards........ don't lose 2 minutes thinking about it. it's a waste of your time thinking about something that is irrelevent.
if you're not mechanically minded and normally get your car fixed in a garage, then have an MOT as usual.
Well I MoT'd 2 Triumph Heralds in the spring this year. Both fully restored by the respective owners. The 1962 (IIRC) was superbly rebuilt just an advisory to tidy up the wiring in the engine bay by horns and steering rack track rod. The second one about 2 weeks later was abismall IIRC 23 fail items. Including dangerouse! Rear trunnion pins very loose, Rear flexihose hanging/rubbing on off side driveshaft, centrefix "knock on" wheels loose on centre wing nut AND adapter plates loose on to origonal wheel hub flange/nuts
Rear light all affecting the others Brake lights stuck on, no dip beam, main beam will not dip, no tell tale on direction indicators.
Thats all I can remember off hand but it created days of discussion, if wasn't so dangerouse it would have been funny.
If it had not been for an MoT test it could have been one of my grandchildren it mowed down. It was pathetic!
Just because people can work on there own cars doesn't make them competent, this guy AND his son obviously thought they knew how to work on there own car.