My car is going to need a bit of work for the MoT, but I don want to spend too much money just now, can you do me any “favours” (wink)?
No, sorry, we can’t do that. However we often find that MoT testers who are not used to dealing with classic cars on a regular basis fail them on items which don’t even require testing, eg failing a Herald on rusty sills (the sills aren’t structural on Heralds, and thus pose no safety hazard) or performing emission tests on exempt cars (vehicles registered before 1974 don’t require an emission test) etc. If you feel that a tester is being unduly harsh on your vehicle it may be worth reminding him of the Ministry guidelines relating to classics, which roughly state that “when testing a vehicle of substancial age, do not apply standards higher than those which applied when the vehicle was new”.
No, sorry, we can’t do that, and in any event some aspects of the MoT are computer controlled these days and we cant override the computer. However we often find that MoT testers who are not used to dealing with classic cars on a regular basis fail them on items which don’t even require testing, eg failing a Herald on rusty sills (the sills aren’t structural on Heralds, and thus pose no safety hazard) or performing emission tests on exempt cars (vehicles registered before 1974 don’t require an emission test) etc. If you feel that a tester is being unduly harsh on your vehicle it may be worth reminding him of the Ministry guidelines relating to classics, which roughly state that “when testing a vehicle of substancial age, do not apply standards higher than those which applied when the vehicle was new”.
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- My car is going to need a bit of work for the MoT, but I don want to spend too much money just now, can you do me any "favours" (wink)?
