Prior to heading to the testing centre I'd been monkeying around with the bike and put the rear seat back on instead of the cowl. The tester informed me that because I had the rear seat on and had de-pegged the bike that should be an MOT fail. He ignored it and just said that he'd put down that it didn't have one Apparently you can have a rear seat and rear pegs. A cowl and pegs. A cowl and no pegs but you can't have a seat and no pegs.
To be fair, the testing centre I use will give you your ticket as long as you don't ride the bike in on fire Illegal exhaust, illegal numberplate. Not a problem. He was just arsing about with me.
Yup this is true. If you have the seat you should have the pegs fitted lol. Same idea as having lights fitted. They need to work
I seem to get lucky with my bike and car. I can't even remember the last time I had anything that failed.
They didn't even mention the fact that I'd cut the plate down, just that it didn't have the suppliers name on it!
not quite,if a bike has lights fitted they have to work or be taped over,theres no such thing as a "daytime" MOT. mine should have failed last yr for not having a split pin through the rear axle bolt!!!! (luckily the chaps are very helpful and put one on for me)
Yep no double space should be M66 TNS, never had an issue in all the time I have had the plate w@nkers! I just velcro'd the new ones over the top and they now put an advisory "2nd number plate stuck over original" front and rear
I think MOTs should stick with the safety issues and leave the technical legality out of it. I can understand the foot pegs thing. Martin, what do you think of the new shape CR-V?
I'm not as keen on the new shape, like the shape of this one but wish I kept my Audi for build quality tbh
In defence of the MOT tester, yes I agree some are down right awkward and are only looking for a reason to fail your vehicle maybe to get extra work through the workshop extra, but there is a reason why they are now probably stricter these days which you may or may not know. A fair few years ago now when they moved onto a electronic database where the tester has to log on to vosa with your vehicle details while he is doing the mot, vosa are actually recording the time spent on your vehicle. If they do not stay logged onto your vehicle for the correct amount of time (ie) finish early this flags up with vosa, also they randomly book dummy cars for them to test under false customer names and wait while the vehicle is tested, now they know which items are failable under the test and if the tester fails to spot these items or even advises something that is incorrect the investigation process starts. The normal outcome is vosa issues penalty points not only to the tester but also to the testing station, I can't remember the exact total of points your limit is but once reached they take away the testers licence and they can also take away the testing stations licence. You can even start investigations off simply by passing or failing to many vehicles, since every testing station is linked to the database they take a average of a pass and fail rate and if you don't fall in this area you get investigated
