Not for me but a guy at work says hes going to get his mate to send him a new mot document, said he will just use the reg of another car? how can you do that as its all automated isnt it? and the "other" car would already have an mot so how can another reg be used?

He said he will pass his shit emissions aswell.

I know this was going on years ago but is it still going on now?

 

It's illegal mate..!... And yes it still goes on.

 

GOd knows how but to pass the whole test as a blag but the emissions test he will need a donor car.

 

oh yeah i know its illegal.

But what i want to know is how can you use another cars reg to do the mot? as the cars reg your using to put yours through will already show up as mot not due?


P.s the guy is a dickhead, as you can probably tell

 

its still possible to have MOTs done without the car being present if you know the right person but as said already not only is it illegal but its pretty daft

 

you use the details of the car thats needs the mot, thats obvious isnt it?

 

he can't use a different reg has to be the correct reg but has said car doesn't actually have to be at the test centre

yes it still goes on and again as said emmissions can be passed with a donor car

but its illegal and the moter can be heavily fined so can the test centre and also they can both risk losing there abilities to test vehicles

 

Naughty but as long as they don't get caught in the act then surely the MOT emissions could change by the next day if a sensor or something failed?

 

Dont even need a donor car for emmisions,
A garage I know of doesnt even do the emissions test.

 

They only use your reg... And only use the donor car for the emissions test.

 

Bad idear all round if you ask me ,dont see how it would work you would need a dodgy tester to put it in the system right .

 

ahh i got it now.


He also said the guy told him its ok as long as he plans to keep the car for at least another 6months after hes passed it? whys that?

 

i am an mot tester and the computerised system is no safer than the old hand written mot certificates. the system only prints out what the mot tester tells it to. testers that do it will eventually get caught out and will then lose a pretty safe living which aint worth the quick drink for passing shit

 

then they will soon be caught out when they dont have the emmisions printouts that they are meant to keep for every single test that they do

 

it happens all the time they just stick the emissions tester up another vehicle
and why he wants him to keep it 6 months is incase he sells it and the new buyer queries the mot due to faults ect

 

i wouldnt have thought thered be many nowadays willing to risk losing their mot test status for the sake of saving someone a few quid.

 

The guy who wants it doing said its only because the car has a crap tyre or something get it replaced and get a legit mot then didnt like to say anything though

 

my brother bought a citroen vulcane td not that long ago, no mot ect. the guy said give me a xtra 50 quid and ill get you a mot delivered if you willing to wait. we declined as the car was for bits. it even had a cracked screen bald tyres and the rear axle suspension bushes was locked solid when we got it home found it was running cherry (red diesel)
some dodgy cunts about

 

you would be suprised. my vosa area manager has openly admitted that they know of a few garages in the area that are blatantly just selling mots for cash but nothing is done. the whole system is a joke

 

Mot tester would be nuts to put a car through with dodgy tyres,
other things I can understand, but a tyre. thats pretty serious

 

putting a ticket on a bald tyre is just stupid. if that car got pulled over driving away from the mot station after just passing an mot the tester would be fucked

 

Nice to know people happy to drive round in potentially dangerous cars with family and friends inside, compared to tax and insurance costs, MOT is small beans.

From my experiance my MOT testers often saved me money pointing out things to fix which could left me stranded at the roadside.

 

exactly, tester would be a fool to do it

 

how many people have actualy said they would do it?

none that I can see.

Lots saying that it goes on though

 

it does go on bigtime !! you will be suprised the amount of car owners i see every day that dont know they have bald tyres with cords hanging out....and there is talk of the mot being changed to every 2 years

 

I find that ludicrus!
some sales reps can clock more 200k in that time,

 

How do you think so many tuned cars pass without cats ....??

I know of 3 places i can get an mot sent out in the post

 

tell me about it mate its to bring it in line with europe but i see a lot of cars that only go to a garage at mot time so i could imagine a lot of seriously dangerous cars driving around

 

mot by post

 

i need one of them my mini is hangin..... lmfao

 

Maybe not. The MOT requirement was for 1.6mm of tread across the centre 3/4 of the tread width. By law it's 1.6mm across the whole tread. SO in theory you could pass the MOT but due to alignment be low on the insides and get 3 points a piece.

That was my understanding though and I am prepared to be corrected

 

I know someone years ago who had a complete pad of blank MOT's already pressed with the stations details. All you had to do was fill in the boxes.

The computerised systems stops this from occuring but also keeps track of the vehicles mileage to help prevent clocking.

 

Where therd a will theres a way.

Im lucky one of my good mates is an mot tester.

 

I'm a tester i have been asked so many times to do a dodgy mot, it's not worth your name and your job that pays the bills, I've had loads of my mates saying your a dick can't believe you failed it, if that's the case what If I didn't fail there car on a leaking fuel pipe and the next day it catches fire , then who would be the dick?

Every tester will turn a blind eye to things but it's just plain stupid to mot the car without it being present,

 

Hello Danny
It only stops John down the pub selling them freely at the bar,
but it doesnt stop Testers taking car details then printing them off at work then giving it out so it hasnt really achieved anything being computerised imo!

 

i'm a mechanic, and check over my car myself, and working in the PSV/HGV trade most of what i do is preventative maintenance, so im pretty good at spotting somthing that is going to fail in the near future...

this is how an MOT test should be too imo!!
rumble in a wheel bearing... imo SHOULD be a fail... its going to fail in the near future... so fail the mot, or any of you guys think thats a bit harsh??

at work, if i think somthing is going to fail, a VOR notice goes in the coach and it doesnt go out.
if my boss decides otherwise and sends the coach out and the part fails... its not on my back that someone got hurt. (potentially)

 

I agree, i often give my car a bit of stick and although i also check it over i want it to be thoroughly checked at mot time too.

 

i think the mot limits and the law are the same its just that the feds dont know wot they r doing half the time

 

a rumbling wheel bearing is a fail

 

i thought it had to have movment in it to fail??
and a rumble was an advisory??

ive got a coach thru an MOT before with a ruble from the front wheel... and i'm sure VOSA dont cut corners and turn blind eyes