MOT question

[mrcitroen]

My BX is getting a bit of welding done to it in a weeks time. Today I removed the rear part of the interior to keep costs down. As it happens, the MOT expires on 5th Nov so I want the guy doing the welding to run it through as he has MOT facilities too. Anyway, will it fail as it has no rear seats? The seatbelts are still there as they are not part of the seat assembly, so in theory they can be tested.

 

My Alfa was in for MOT last week & got an advisory for one of the rear seatbelts because a child seat was fitted & the belt could not be tested.

[philibusmo]

You'll be fine. Had to do that a year ago, due to a failed rear belt on the fiesta 2 days before the MOT. Just whipped the seat out, got a pass certificate and then added a new belt and popped the seat back in about 2 days later.

[michael1703]

will pass but may have an advisory such as : "rear seat not present at time of test" or similar

[cobblers]

Should be fine unless your MOT tester is a mong or on the fiddle and wanting to dish out any easily arguable fail to keep his percentages about right.

[Albert Ross]

It won't warrant a fail. As long as the tester is advised in advance, you will be able to advise HIM they are missing, therefore it shouldn't end up on the sheet as advice...after all, verbal may not carry the same weight in a court of law, but advice is only that. Advice.

Monsieur Cobbleurs, everything is "menu" selectable meaning the days of iffy fails are history. Well, in theory.....

[Morgan84]

Advise - Passenger seat not fitted at time of test

[Albert Ross]

I suppose yes, but if the Tester were to speak to the presenter, it would prevent the addition of said advice, as long as the details were recorded on an internal job-card (Like wot I duz) and it would have a clean-ish sheet. It does say that it's the opinion of the tester, so not legally binding in ANY way.

[Morgan84]

The advisary is more of a covering the testers arse,as there are some bad dealers out there who will remove seats where the belts are shot,then replace them once passed ( think of MPV's with dog/children damaged seatbelts )

[Albert Ross]

Yeah, hence we keep a record of ALL conversations, phone calls, estimates.. it's all backed up, and paperwork filed for 5 years afterwards! (We have a building DEDICATED to file storage!) I am on-site QC, and very little passes me by.... Busy place!

[mrcitroen]

Cheers guys. I was not sure, so I'll just ask him to stick it through.

 

Hopefully it will pass. Done 3.5K since last year, the only thing I can think that could fail it could be the wishbone bushes as they look a bit soggy, but have no play or are noisy.

 

Advisories IMO are a lot of shite. In the past I have had advisories on the BX, done sod all about them, lobbed it in for the test the following year and passed with none. Same tester as well FFS