I do 20+ MOT’s a day, we are a very busy MOT centre and have 3 MOT testers here.
On the list of failures we sorted everything out, brakes were out because handbrake cable needed adjusting, we retested it on the rollers and it gave a reading that was a pass, fog light was fitted, was bought from champion motors, exhaust was welded up but as Matt says it was blown when he got it means the job wouldn’t win us awards. Light bulbs were replaced as were windscreen wipers. The seatbelts were also fixed as it passed mot on these, they did clip into the holsters and they did lock, but i cant remember exactly how good they were. The car came into mot with a different set of alloys than what wheels it was sold on, which may explain the bold tires. None of this work was done by me, but by the workers at the garage as it is not my job. The car did not pass without its horn working and it wouldn’t have passed if the horn didn’t work so I will say that the horn was fixed, if this was damaged again in the accident then I can’t comment on that. The windscreen was advised as was wheel bearing.
The second MOT test shows no advisories because there was no second MOT test, the advisories remain the same as the ones from when it was MOT’d and that advisory note that was issued with the first failure test is the one that Akky or whoever sold the car should have provided to the buyer if he/she asked for it or if the seller was genuine enough to include it, which were pretty obvious anyways (windscreen).
I have nothing to do with the fact that the car was bent or it drove like shit or whatever, my job is to test the motor for MOT, if the car was involved in an accident after the MOT certificate was issued, then that has nothing to do with me, I can only comment on the MOT side of things, not the accident, nor the way the car drove. I did make a mistake on the mileage but if you imagine I do up to 20 maybe more MOT’s everyday and people do make mistakes.
If there is anything else you need to know please do PM me, I will try my best to answer when I get the time.
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