MOT Questions? - Saxperience

Tringaling · 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!

Brettles1986 · 19th April 2013, 13:10

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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.

Gandi699 · 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.

Tringaling · 19th April 2013, 13:18

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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.

Tringaling · 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

firebobby · 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.

Jizanthapus · 19th April 2013, 23:24

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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.

SnakeVTR · 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

stigsdump · 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

LSOfreak · 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?

billpine · 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.