Will it pass, with the bonnet raised slightly at the rear? we're talkin 20mm tops..

 

Surely it would? Plenty people run like this?

 

I take you have bonnet raisers?? if so it will be fine ive had cars with them on and they have passed the M.O.T

 

Will pass no probs mate, you dont even need to have a bonnet fitted for the mot and it will still pass

 

Cheers lads

 

thought you would have to? to prove that its road worthy that if ya ploughed into someone on the road they would bounce of ya bonnet not the engine

 

No mate, nowhere in the testers manual does it say that the vehicle has to have a bonnet fitted and if not fitted this is not a reason for rejection ( failure )

 

ahh nice one

 

You learn something new everyday so in that repsect it it legal to drive a car on the road without a bonnet?

 

I always thought you had to have a bonnet on as said above if you hit someone without one they get chewed up in your engine not just bounce off your bonnet

 

unless its a fatty then fucked expect a nice big dent

 

Driving on the road without a bonnet might be a different kettle of fish but i know its not a requirement for the mot.

There are some strange rulings when it comes to the mot on certain matters, like you dont need to pass a cat test if there is only a drivers seat fitted !! It only needs to be below 3.5% CO !!

There are quite a few more but cant remember them just now.

 

Took the focus for it's MOT today, I was worried that it would struggle to pass the emissions as i've fitted one of Fins Sport Cats, it's not the cat that I was worried about but the location, the only place I could mount it was quite a way back from the Manifold and the lamda sensor (just after where the main system bolts to the secondary flexi pipe). the problem being it takes quite a while for the Cat to heat up.

And as I suspected it failed first time, but to be fair to the tester he said he always tests the emissions as soon as he pulls the car in, he let it run for 10 mins and tested it again and it passed with flying colours, had the cat been closer to the manifold he said it would have passed straght away!!


If anyone is running Cats i'd deffo recomend these Sport Cats i've noticed no drop in power from not having one fitted to running it.

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