jaiscossie

My van was due its mot today so booked it in with a local garage that id not used before as they had an offer of £30 for an mot, all good i thought. It was booked in at 3pm so got there just before. Sat in the waiting room, van went in the mot area at 3.02pm and came back out at 3.05pm all done. wtf

josh90

not thats what you call a dodgy mot!

Paulo P

I've had a car MOT'd before that hasn't even entered their MOT bay

SBT83

So basically they drove it in, it drove ok that's a pass

Jimbo.

Blimey, I've had a dodgy blow job that's taken longer than that!

SBT83

natehall

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0630154

Well they have not did it properly , as it has to be booked in for 1 hour on the computer ? So you could be driving a dangerous vehicle sir .

josh90

just go back and get your money back

SBT83

Could you give me her number

fordcozyjohn

it takes me 10 mins to log on the car to mot it so how did they do that ?



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LHD220Turbo

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jesus, lets hope vosa dont find out about it.

that's shocking

StephenC

sounds like my guy, I park it on the road, come back later to pick it up and it hasn't even moved but its passed!!

J1mbo

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Times are there as a guide line not a minimum time I beleive.
I do think if your doing short mots it will be looked into. Our mots last around the 35/40 minute mark for a new ish car. Has been over an hour plenty of times though

markk

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too many people think there is a minimum time, but then there is realism and being realistic, the older the car the more potential issues.

fordcozyjohn

it you do a mot in 30 mins or les then vosa will come and see you i do lots of new cars they dont take long and vosa came and had a word with me cos i was not logged on long a nuf to do the mot propre


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jaiscossie

I was going to get them to service it to but i think i might not now

markk

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I was MOT testing in dealerships and was the site manager/AE/QC for near 20 years and never had an issue with log on times (since mot computerisation inception)

jaiscossie

It might of been a him as he did say dodgy

Glenn_

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Sounds like a garage near me. They call it A C P garage. It stands for all cars pass lol.

jaiscossie

Proper made me laugh this did

Less.

Fordmad!

Garage near me does 5 minute MOTs i use them every year

GVK.

PMSL

In all seriousness though, I don't actually think you could log on and off in 3mins...

j6kyt

that mot person deserves to be banned imo. would you want your kids to be ferried about in a car that may have dangerous defects.

matts1

have you checked online to make sure it is registered on the vosa site? my brother had an mot done and 6 months later when he came to tax it they said he had no mot since it was last due, called the garage and they tried to claim they had never seen the car!!

After some words they garage claimed it was an error and they did something and it then showed mot??

cossiejay

lets hope they do find out and shut them down

louis_2012

Guy who does mine hardly know the guy but every car i take there passes.

First time I took a old 1999 ibiza in, two tyres on the wear bars, wishbones dead, balljoints dead, exhaust blowing. he drove it in, let it run for a bit, put the washers on checked the lights went underneath it for about 30 seconds then passed it, didnt check brakes emissions or sod all lol

VW he passed next took even less time, i know its dodgy but i 90% of the time know what a car needs doing so i fix it anyway but if it was some dipshit woman or a old granny it would be a different kettle of fish.. :/

jaiscossie

Thanks for the heads up mate i will go and check on there now and report back

jaiscossie

Just looked and it comes up on vosa website with a pass from yesterday.

cossiejay

I fix what I know is wrong before I take it for a mot your saying you take it with loads of faults and fix them later

RichieST

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Sounds reasonable - I recently put my banger mondeo through an MOT, I knew the handbrake wasn't working and a couple of other bits and pieces, but if it came out with a failure list as long as your arm then there would have been no point in doing the repairs first as it would be straight off to the scrapper.

Paul_RS

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This is why your MOTs should be done like ours in a designated MOT centre, not a garage.

louis_2012

My point exactly. No point spending £150 on the bits you know are faulty on a 15 yr old car for it to only fail on another £150 of bits come the MOT when the car is only worth 400 - 500.

Mark_

That can't be right, When I have been to my mates MOT place,
If he finishes to quickly we have to wait for it to time down or something so thats impossible.

Harryh24

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same as its done here in Spain! it's a totally independent government ran one and they earn no more or less money if you fail!

GVK.

As I posted before, you'd be doing well to log the car on the system and log straight off again in 3 mins the VTS machine is on a dial up connection ,not broadband and isn't the fastest of systems, obviously no emission test was done either. (as well as the rest of test)

Gives the 'trade' a bad name.

fordcozyjohn

how did they do it with out puting the brake figers in as well ?

SBT83

The exhaust gas smelt ok <PASS>
The brakes stop <PASS>

GVK.

Exactly!

(For non-testers) the tester has to enter the 4 service brake and 2 park brake test figures and any imbalance readings into the VTS machine and it works out if pass/fail on the brake test as it knows the weight of the vehicle.

Probably just made them up

If say a Fiesta/Focus, if you add for arguments sake 300kg on each front wheel, 150kg on each rear service brake and another 150kg on each park brake you could probably get a pass.