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Scott

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Just having this with my daughter now. She has her first car and hasn't got a clue between servicing and MOT. She is learning fast as she starts paying for everything.

 

That's the best way to do it, otherwise they'll never learn to stand on their feet.

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With the current setup the fail/pass area you will (at least should) get consistency across all stations/testers

 

With the advisory part you will only get consistency with individual testers or test stations if, like Tony's, they have policies on thing.

 

With no hard and fast rules, then it's all open the whole human range or risk advers'ness anal'ness.

 

Ask ten of us if we were mot testers for the day what mm tread depth of a tyre we would put an advisory on and you'll never get ten same answers...

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Tell me about it, you been on the whiskey again?! :D

 

I was just saying you guys shouldn't have to do that to protect yourself, the MOT body should be working with you guys, not scrutinising you to a state you are paranoid they'll shut you down over an accident.

 

An yes, I know most won't have a clue re what the MOT is for, which reminds me of the time I went to check a car for a friend (E46 coupe) and the lady had FSH. Oil was filthy and she shows me the MOT certificate :D

 

Yep it was JD:D:D & yes i wish they would work with us, it is very much like being back at school when they role up :D

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Problem is Abz, DVSA is a Government agency, and you're paying the Government for a service (all £2.05p per test of it...) for something they class as mandatory, so they, legally speaking, have to side with their "customers". In the same way that if you work for Tesco, and a customer complains about the way they were served, Tesco will always apologise and tell the employee off, rightly or wrongly. They'll never side with us, unless we can prove, using THEIR rule book, that we're in the right.

 

On my refresher course, the guy told us that in 15 years, he has never been to an MOT station and observed a test carried out perfectly!

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Problem is Abz, DVSA is a Government agency, and you're paying the Government for a service (all £2.05p per test of it...) for something they class as mandatory, so they, legally speaking, have to side with their "customers". In the same way that if you work for Tesco, and a customer complains about the way they were served, Tesco will always apologise and tell the employee off, rightly or wrongly. They'll never side with us, unless we can prove, using THEIR rule book, that we're in the right.

 

On my refresher course, the guy told us that in 15 years, he has never been to an MOT station and observed a test carried out perfectly!

 

Can understand where you are coming from, doesn't make it easy for you guys. An to be honest I am not surprised. With the amount of variables & tolerances that you have to follow, coupled with different cars and types it isn't a very clean yes/no. Looking through MOT rules before, some of it is objective too.

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