MOT Questions?

1. user_20683 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2008 Woolwich Barracks Posts: 3921 52 Plate Black 8v R'

   #1 19th April 2013, 12:50

   Hi all,
   
   Basically took my VTR for a MOT retest and it needed some work which was some bulbs and a n/s shock absorber.
   
   I replaced both sides with uprated Bilstein absorbers and all the bulbs and it was having the retest this morning.
   
   I just received a phone call saying that they have now noticed the lower arm ball joint is fail able and they can't produce a MOT certificate for this, where do I stand on this as it wasn't picked up originally on the MOT?
   
   Bit pissed off tbh!
2. user_46658 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Aug 2010 Little Mill, South Wales Posts: 7547 Mondeo ST TDCI Saxo VTS

   #2 19th April 2013, 13:10

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Tringaling Hi all, Basically took my VTR for a MOT retest and it needed some work which was some bulbs and a n/s shock absorber. I replaced both sides with uprated Bilstein absorbers and all the bulbs and it was having the retest this morning. I just received a phone call saying that they have now noticed the lower arm ball joint is fail able and they can't produce a MOT certificate for this, where do I stand on this as it wasn't picked up originally on the MOT? Bit pissed off tbh!

   Not sure there's anything you can do other than get it sorted.
   
   A lot of the decisions are at the testers discretion.
3. Gandi699 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 9100 Amazon green VTR 16v, Inferno RS clio 182

   #3 19th April 2013, 13:13

   Id personally just pay them to change it there and then unless you want to have the hassle of paying for another test and having to fit a new ball joint/wishbone.
4. user_20683 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2008 Woolwich Barracks Posts: 3921 52 Plate Black 8v R'

   #4 19th April 2013, 13:18

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Gandi699 Id personally just pay them to change it there and then unless you want to have the hassle of paying for another test and having to fit a new ball joint/wishbone.

   They want like £120+ to change it - Fuck that when I can do it myself.
5. user_20683 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2008 Woolwich Barracks Posts: 3921 52 Plate Black 8v R'

   #5 19th April 2013, 13:21

   Also they are in the same place so how they didn't pick it up first time is beyond me
6. firebobby L-plater Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 38

   #6 19th April 2013, 19:06

   You have ten working days to return the car and they shouldn't charge for a re-test, well the one up the road from does that.
7. Jizanthapus Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 3593

   #7 19th April 2013, 23:24

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Tringaling They want like £120+ to change it - Fuck that when I can do it myself.

   Well tell them you will do it yourself then?! They can't make you make them do it.
   Or just take it to someone more lenient. A lot easier.
8. user_43898 Established Member Joined: May 2010 leicester Posts: 1446 Clio 182 Inferno

   #8 19th April 2013, 23:35

   They should have picked up on it the first time to be honest, as mentioned above, take the car away and check it out yourself and fit whats needed and then get a retest
9. stigsdump Infrequent Poster Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 134

   #9 19th April 2013, 23:46

   The MOT test is only good for the time its done...a bulb can go as you leave the station and it'd fail on a retest of another item.
   
   Its a bit harsh to say a ball joint would have worn THAT much more in a few days. Most reasonable testers would put it down as an advisor its the play was minimal
10. LSOfreak Saxperience Addict Joined: Jan 2008 west london Posts: 13810

    #10 20th April 2013, 01:48

    sounds a bit of a bell of a tester tbh never heard of someone doing that before
    surely he couldve just added it as an advisory?
    
    cant you just take it away, change it and take it back to him for a free retest?
11. billpine Infrequent Poster Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 129

    #11 20th April 2013, 14:06

    What a bellend! I had this problem some years back with my old Metro, failed it on a bit of welding at the back, went back on a re-test and failed it on a rear bush and that was after him telling me they only re-test on the fails. In the end I paid up but in court they agreed with me and ordered them to take refresher courses so they didn't 'miss' these problems in the first place.
    
    Take my motors to MOT only now.