Would this be waste of time

[Guest Burger1]

Not me.....a mate phoned today to say he's taking car to get retest via vosa as there's clunking ect and not happy with the steering (06 civic). It was mot'd 3 weeks ago but he's did just over 500 miles using it locally, he said it was going to report it when he got it (3 weeks ago from a private sale) but due to stupid work hrs he couldn't.

 

I said I think they'll laugh it out the door (from the mechanic of the original garage that did it that it (it wasn't done local)), might be different if he'd dot it done right away but not 500 mls later. His argument is that if its ball joints, wishbone bushes, steering ect it should have at least got advisories from the garage the previous owner used but there's nothing.

 

What's the verdict....he's not one for forums

[Roverageous]

What's the point? Does he want his pass revoked? Just get the work done? 

[Barry Cade]

This shape Civic always had a clunk from the steering when MOTing them, I could never find any wear which caused it. I'm sure there was a Honda TSB to retorque the steering rack bolts.

[Junkman]

When exactly has it become wrong to just fix a car that's broken?

[fred]

Like junkman said -

 

If he is not one for forums - Im not one for giving him advice

 

Pesky mates coming over here stealing our knowledge bah

[Guest Burger1]

I just thought I'd get other opinions apart mine, sorry to inconvenience you

[Junkman]

Ooooh, I bought a ten year old car for cheap. Now something is wrong with it.

I'm too old to call on my father, but there must be someone who I can call on, innitt?

I mean, since when am I responsible for my life?

I bought the car at a dealer's, so surely he is responsible. I read it on the Internet.

I bet there are countless lawyers just waiting to make a career.

 

Holy.

Fucking.

Shit.

[matty879]

its a classic case of it was ok at time of test,advisorys are at the testers discretion,they can only fail on what they can see/test.

[Junkman]

The real fundamental problem here is, that any 2006 shiny shit from China is simply 20 years too new.

Why people never listen to me despite I'm always right, is a phenomenon, that will never cease to amase me.

[STUNO]

Amaze junkman, amaze. Get it right !

[Junkman]

Ah well. Post 1986 car. I despair.

[Noel Tidybeard]

TADTS iirc its the bump stops

 

mine does it and its had the recall/mod

 

front end rattles for the first 20 feet of the day- dealer fix is to loosen subframe bolts lube the subframe and re-tighten i think

[Noel Tidybeard]

http://www.civinfo.com/wiki/index.php?title=Suspension_noise_diagnosis

[michael1703]

They'll laugh it out the door like you suggest

 

DVSA hate these sort of appeals,500 miles is too late for items like that

 

For example I had a customers Vauxhall vivaro that was scrubbing front tyres and myself and my mot assistant grabbed and pulled it about and could only find a bit of play in a track rod end. We put a pair of track rod ends on it, got it aligned and only a week later the owner complains that the back is coming around on him on left handers.

 

Grabbed and pulled it about again and we found osf lower balljoint had a couple of inches of play in it

 

It had only done 100 miles or so

[sierraman]

Not a fucking chance. Whose to say it'd fail again? The knocking could be anything, loose undertray etc. If it was a hole in the sill maybe...

 

Tell him to get a grip and take some ownership of it. One of the reasons I don't sell cars once I've finished with them is having the deal with the 'Oi I've been ripped off here!' Merchant.

[Cavcraft]

What we need now is more flaming of people and implications that modern cars are shit.

[SiC]

They all do it sir.

 

Probably this:

http://www.civinfo.com/wiki/index.php?title=Front_end_knock/tap_when_brake/accelerate/turn

 

Mine did it. Local friendly garage just tightened up all the bolts on the underside and it went away. Would never be picked up on a MOT.

 

Could be a whole load of different things, a lot of which wouldn't be MOT issues.

 

As my civic has got older (2007) the amount of rattles and creaks have increased. Far more than my previous mk7 did.

 

Also they told me that apparently VOSA is advising not to put down loads of custom advisories on MOTs, as they're worried too many people are treating it like a service. Stuff like "crack in rear light cluster" or "small chips on windscreen".

[hpi_matrix]

Probably fitted with euro car parts finest bargain bits to get it through the MOT, there only designed to last 500 miles on a good day.

[Guest Burger1]

They'll laugh it out the door like you suggest

DVSA hate these sort of appeals,500 miles is too late for items like that

For example I had a customers Vauxhall vivaro that was scrubbing front tyres and myself and my mot assistant grabbed and pulled it about and could only find a bit of play in a track rod end. We put a pair of track rod ends on it, got it aligned and only a week later the owner complains that the back is coming around on him on left handers.

Grabbed and pulled it about again and we found osf lower balljoint had a couple of inches of play in it

It had only done 100 miles or so

Yep....he didn't take it, phone me about an hr ago, I said "maybe the day you got it then yes maybe report it as it'd only been done 2-3 days previous but ffs not 3 weeks and 500 mls later"....think he realised he was a dick 🙄

[Dave_Q]

Its not unreasonable to be annoyed about having to spend on a recent purchase, but it is unreasonable to try and stitch up the tester/the seller/the transport ministry/the road/the sky/the EU/etc to get out of paying for it.

[Squire_Dawson]

I think this could well be yet another wind-up... which are mildly amusing if nothing else.

[burraston2006]

I think this could well be yet another wind-up... which are mildly amusing if nothing else.

 

Can't be as it's a Civic not a Renner 20!