One of the blokes I work with tested a vehicle at my work the other day.

I couldn't believe what he advised it on.

 

Handbrake cover sounds questionable, the others I see no issue, its a cover your arse world we live in now.

 

The leather gaiter on the handbrake lever was loose and not clipped in.

 

Got to remember we are car guys. But some people are just idiots and anything they can complain about and get you in the shit they will. Hence why he's has listed it.
if it was your car Glenn he would have just told you if you hadn't noticed it.

 

I bet he wouldn't of matey. I work with the divvys everyday I know what there like.

 

Oh that's not good.

 

One of the mot testers even fails his own vans that he has just inspected lol. You couldn't make it up lol.

 

wtf there really are some stupid people about.

 

 

I had an advise the oather year because the under tray under the engine was still fitted!!!!
Not loose or broken but still fitted.
Work that one out....

 

I had a similar advisory on my Renault Laguna about the factory fitted plastic engine and battery covers!! I thought it was a mistake at first as what are you supposed to do , take them off before you have the MOT?

 

Maybe due to checking if battery is loose and or battery connections.
Also check of suspension components.

Think this is why a old ford will go on for so long without them picking up corrosion issues due to not being able to poke and prod a body shell.
Hence why you see so many focuses failed on the rear lower sills and inner rear arches.

Even now with rusty brake discs they can only fail if they are poor performance on the rollers and or cracked.

 

yerp. It's unbelievable isn't it.

 

keep the coooooont.

 

I find you have to cover your ass on every turn mot testing, handbrake gator I wouldn't advise but engine or battery covers I do as if something is insecure and picked up later by perhaps a buyer of the car then u have covered yourself as to the reason you didn't check it. Sad really

 

They have to advise you if covers are fitted, because they are not allowed to remove them, meaning quite a few testable items are hidden and they cannot see behind them to check them. its about covering themselves, if you drove away down the road and something behind the covers failed, you could not point the finger at them.

Same reason they do only a visual check on seat belts when a child seat is fitted, so if it isn't strapped in properly and the worse happened, you couldn't point the finger at them.

The handbrake cover is fine to advise imo, if you found it jammed the handbrake for some reason, and the car rolled down a hill killing somebody, you couldn't point the finger at the tester, instead he has put the responsibility onto you, for knowing you were driving a vehicle with a defect.

People these days always want to point the finger and get money out of someone else for nothing, so everyone has to cover themselves to avoid having the piss taken.

 

 

This is the world we live in and to be honest it sucks.
Even worse if your running a business.

 

I had an advisory that the can of foam for a puncture was out of date!

 

I got my car mot'd before while my son slept in his child seat in the back, he slept through the whole test, even while the car was up in the air on the lift. The tester laughed but never said anything about it.
i drove home afterwards and my little man had no idea we had just been for an mot 😂

 

Shut up lol. Honestly.

 

Thanks for your input matey. I just think the mot testers sometimes put items on the test certificate just to make us non mot testers look like twats.

 

How about this one then haha

 

Ah it must be a Scooby with gold wheels

 

Hah hah I did similar to our apprentices car where I used to work. I ended up having to mot it a second time but it was worth it

 

I love it!! Imagine anyone looking up his cars MOT history and seeing that description of the wheels !!

 

Lol at wheels look shit.

 

I've had the 'engine cover' advisory on stepdad's Astra for few years now, one my favourites was took car with slight oil leak, which I couldn't find so I asked tester to have look while it up on the ramp, I then got 'oil leak' as an advisory!, had to chuckle at that one.

 

 

The mrs rs turbo got "exhaust loud" for a few years

 

silly bastards.

 

Don't make sense to me, my car is fitted with plastic engine and battery covers from new as standard and yet I had the advisory as well !!

 

 

 

 

WTF!!!! How are these MOT testers allowed to put such insulting shit on the paperwork? Fair enough to put sensible advisories down but some of the stuff shown on these is way over the top!! Personal insults especially about disabled people should never be allowed!!!

 

It's probably their friends cars.

 

Makes no odds if it is fitted from factory or not, the fact is the tester cannot see under them, so he has to advise he was unable to test the items under the covers to protect himself.

 

The wording of the advisory isnt great, but if a car, like the Escort Cosworth has plastic sill covers, the tester is unable to evaluate the condition of the sill area around the seat mounts, seat belt mounts, because he cannot see them, so the advisory is the correct thing to do in this case.
To cover himself, He is not advising a defect, he is advising he could not complete that part of the test procedure.

The silly thing to do would be to say nothing, then find the car has a crash, somebody is killed, and its found to be because the seat belt broke free due to corrosion around the area he could not test, but he didn't tell anyone he was unable.

 

Good posts Loomer! Was going to post something similar.