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Do you think a dirty engine would fail an mot ?
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Don’t start him off on another tangent!
A greasy engine could attract attention and advisory. I had some white marks and the guy said I had a coolant leak. I never had a coolant leak. I did have a coolant splashing/flooding everywhere when I changed it. That was probably 15 years ago.
That must have been around the time you did your last oil change too.
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Can't remember. My memory ain't what it used to be.
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I can tell you about them, but you won't listen.
How did you check them to be satisfied by them? The writing on them does look clean and legible.
It depends from mot guy.
Once I had to go somewhere different from my usual mot garage(that doesn't do repairs) and this scammer failed me on emission and large leak from gearbox.
Unfortunately for him I knew my passat and told him there was no leak.
He refused to show me for h&s reasons and said it was illegal to drive the car away.
Repair would have cost £1500.
I drove away, went to VW, showed them the mot failure and they were very nice.
They had a spot available in the afternoon, I went back and they let me watch while they re-examined the car and they even took pictures of the gearbox on my phone.
Passed mot perfectly, there was no leak and emissions were well below the limit.
They commented on how well the 25+ year old car was kept.
I went back to the scammer, showed them VW mot and pictures of the gearbox and somehow the garage owner gave me the mot money back without moaning.
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Should have asked the original tester for a vt17 appeal form.
He might have reconsidered there and then
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I suppose that's a complaint form.
I'll keep that in mind in case it ever happens again.
You can do it online if you prefer:
Appeal an MOT test result
You can appeal an MOT test result if you think it's wrong, for example, if the vehicle failed its MOT and you think it should have passed.
I’ve never had any appeals against any of my tests but I’ve seen them done at my station. That was about 10 years or more ago but I don’t think things have changed.
Appeals are okay if you have the time and don’t need to use the car. You have to book and pay for another test which will be done with a vosa inspector present at a different test station to the original. If it passes, you get your original test fee back and the original testing station/tester gets points awarded against them.
Appeals are okay if you have the time and don’t need to use the car. You have to book and pay for another test which will be done with a vosa inspector present at a different test station to the original. If it passes, you get your original test fee back and the original testing station/tester gets points awarded against them.
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