New MOT History site now live.

[Christine]

However it appears wotsisname on Car SOS whacked the Beetle in for a test first to check what it needed ...and it really was restored in days...! Well done  !  GPX636H

 

edit ,Fuzz is is name!

[stripped fred]

I'm finding this is very useful for checking out cars where they don't mention it has been in for an mot recently and failed on a load of things. Instead it's just been sitting around/surplus to requirements/wife doesn't like it/bought another car/growing family (delete as applicable) followed up with 'I'm sure it wouldn't need much for an mot'. Yeah, right.

[Lacquer Peel]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/volvo-v70-good-runner/1134704761

 

"MOT expired."

 

• Test date 8 September 2015
• Test Result Fail
• MOT test number 4277 5392 7341
• Reason(s) for failure
  
  Parking brake: efficiency below requirements (3.7.B.7)

  nearside Headlamp not working on dipped beam (1.7.5a)

  offside Headlamp aim too low (1.

  nearside Stop lamp not working (1.2.1b)

  Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content at idle excessive (7.3.D.4)

  Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content after 2nd fast idle excessive (7.3.D.3)

[beko1987]

This threads brilliant! Whose gonna be the first to try and buy one of these failed clunkers and chip the price down by printing its own fail sheet out?

[trigger]

I've been going through some of my favorite photos on Flickr, makes interesting reading.

 

 

• vinal roof missing

 

 

Showing as having done 221,555 miles at it's last mot!

 

• vehicle body corroded
• underside of vehicle corroded
• Passenger seat(s) missing at time of test

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It's amazing this one's still on the road, it has the longest fail sheet I've seen yet!.

 

• areas of corrosion to underside
• areas of corrosion to bodywork
• rear doors heavily corroded

 

Only showing as having 47000 miles.

 

 

• cARPET MISSING. OFFSIDE FRONT OUTER WING TOP PIN HOLED WITH CORROSION. NO HAZARD WARNING LIGHTS OR REAR FOGLIGHTS FITTED. PAINTWORK PATCHY.

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I've also looked at a few of my old spots.

 

 

The list is surprisingly short for this old girl.

 

• Brake pedal anti-slip provision loose

 

• Nearside rear Suspension spring mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded sill end (2.4.A.3)
• offside rear Suspension spring mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded sill end inner and outer

 

Still going with 176000  miles on it.

 

 

I still see this about a lot, It's now on 157000 miles, Looking at the mot history i don't know how much longer it has left.

 

 

Still going!, Done 12k last year taking it up to 97k.

 

• Nearside Rear Service brake: service brake efficiency only just met. It would appear that the braking system requires adjustment or repair

 

The mileage on this old taxi has been stuck on 272k for at least 3 years!

 

 

Sadly not MOTed since April, only done 53000 miles too.

 

 

• Advisory notice item(s)
• Nearside Front Valve stem slightly damaged (4.1.D.1e)
• O/s/f inner arch excessively corroded just outside prescribed area.
• Slight binding o/s/f brake.
• Vehicle generally showing underside corrosion.

 

 

[michael1703]

"Carpet missing" can't think why that would matter

[JohnK]

"Carpet missing" can't think why that would matter

Forgot to put it in to cover the Flintstones hole in the drivers footwell.

[colino]

"Carpet missing" is an example of why advisory section is going to be withdrawn.  Shows both incompetence of NT and adds credibility to belief of thick drivers that MOT is a bumper to bumper service.

[oldcars]

"Carpet missing" is an example of why advisory section is going to be withdrawn.  Shows both incompetence of NT and adds credibility to belief of thick drivers that MOT is a bumper to bumper service.

Wonder if i will ever get "wheel missing" for the reliant 

[scaryoldcortina]

https://mattersoftesting.blog.gov.uk/giving-the-right-advice/

[Richard]

I got a verbal 'wheels look shit' advisory on the 850 last week.

[michael1703]

I dont think they will do away with advisories completely but there may be less of them

 

you cant do away with them, if someone turned up with tyres with 1.61mm of tread youve got to pass and advise otherwise 50 miles up the road they are illegal and youre the garage that gave them a pass you will be getting a visit

[Roverageous]

Interestingly enough I just used this for my Rover. My car wears a private plate which my last Rover also wore. This site shows MOT entries for BOTH vehicles which gave me a panic about my current one being clocked!

 

Very shit if you ask me.

 

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[flat4alfa]

• cARPET MISSING. OFFSIDE FRONT OUTER WING TOP PIN HOLED WITH CORROSION. NO HAZARD WARNING LIGHTS OR REAR FOGLIGHTS FITTED. PAINTWORK PATCHY.

Thought the same too

 

Also the Simca doesn't need a fog light at that age.  Retro-fitted ones legalised from c.1979 wasn't it?

 

[flat4alfa]

Interestingly enough I just used this for my Rover. My car wears a private plate which my last Rover also wore. This site shows MOT entries for BOTH vehicles which gave me a panic about my current one being clocked!

 

Very shit if you ask me.

 

Agree, that's lousy and might be the undoing of this FOI effort.  It's fun right now for us, but I can't see any of this lasting.

 

*Jimmy Tarbuck's double-clocking offence is vindicated*

[colino]

From a chat with a, "Man from the Ministry" it is a combination of the huge number of complaints from consumers about laughable and spurious advisories, coupled with the burgeoning litigation culture that is seeing advisories off.  As we speak the language is being tightened up and once the switchover is considered bedded down, users of the service will be reminded that vehicles pass or fail as presented.  Only Arthur Daileys cars pass with flying colours.

[sierraman]

When my cars pass with flying colours I get a handshake from the MOT station proprietor, to congratulate me on the condition of the car. His advice is 'keep it up'.

[Lacquer Peel]

[Lord Sterling]

Lol, just had a look at my Sterling. It really is a pile of shit that just scrapes passed MOTs by the flake of it paint. No wonder the rear brakes are complaining, the sills must have been welded a fair few times too.

 

Still, it's a bloody nice way to get about.

[greengartside]

 

*Jimmy Tarbuck's double-clocking offence is vindicated*

 

Bugger and balls.

 

Was imagining old Tarby hurriedly purchasing a cheap Mercedes Comms unit CD off eBay and rigging his laptop up to it to shave some mileage off the old crate.

 

Then he goes to his shed and trips over the new tyre which he's been meaning to fit for three years.

 

On a side-note, fiat4alfa - nice avatar. It's my dad who is the guy in that SoCo advert dontyaknow. PHAKT.

[Jon]

Back before he sold it, a canny MOT inspector did the right thing and failed my Dad's '74 MG Midget on the following (amongst others)

 

registration plate fitted to the front does not have black characters on a white background (6.3.2a)

registration plate fitted to the rear does not have black characters on a yellow background (6.3.2b)

 

Which is good, because they looked shit.

[Jazoli]

Site is now broken

[Christine]

T'isn't broke here ? I haven't got youtube video..only the sound.. Is it to do with Talk Talk hack ?

[Jazoli]

now working, how strange

[Christine]

Quentin Wilson is probably trying to hack in to adjust some mileages on cars he sold...

[beko1987]

The local motor trader did a post on facebook earlier, and I checked out an 09 plate fiat 500.

 

Oil leak advised on its first mot, the same macphearson strut has been an advisory its whole life, its failed twice in its life on tyres and one of tbe wheels has impact damage...

 

All modern cars etc, he wants 7 large for it too. If I was any more of a prick id post its own advisories up but dont want to make local enemies...

[Negative Creep]

406 failed in 2011 for a loose passenger seat, pretty much everything else seems to have been scrapped before the new system came in

[Christine]

Kwick con type test centres are always gonna fail it if they can on tyres, exhast , dampers , headlight aim....anything they can fix cheap and charge loads for ..

[3VOM]

"Carpet missing" can't think why that would matter

All I can think of is carpet in the driver's footwell, where, if it were missing, is a potential slip hazard the same as not having rubber pads on the foot pedals.

[michael1703]

So today I tested a car which had a screw in the tyre.

 

On the old mot system there were 'non component related advisisories" one of which was "nail in tyre"

 

New system doesn't have this but has a text box to type an advisory in to.

 

I typed in "screw in offside rear tyre"

 

It came up with an error code along the lines of "A profanity has been detected"

 

So I can't say "screw", that's the end of the road for advisories such as "shit wheels"