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I've got a question about the ten day retest period with MOTs. My semi-retro Arosa was taken for an MOT on Friday by a very kind mate because I had no time. He took it to a place near him, nowhere near me. It failed, as expected, and I was able to persuade my lazy Brother to pick up the work (for freebies). My mate had it MOT'd at a place near Edinburgh. My Brother now has the car in Glasgow and the MOT place they use won't retest it until the ten day period has expired. Is this the law, or maybe just a policy they have?Taking the car back across to the original place for a free retest is a false economy. The fuel cost alone would make it a false economy before you even think about the time wasted driving across and hanging around. Some nice, low Seat and garage porn...      |
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there's nothing stopping them doing a full test, no idea where they got that from.
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Lawsy
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nope, not that i know of..
I've taken to one place in the morning and failed, then gone somewhere else in the afternoon and passed
Might just be their policy
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mk2cossie
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MOT Question - Ten Day Rulemk2cossie
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no reason why the place nearest cant do a MOT. will obviously be a full test, but no reason they cant, as the retest thing is only applicable to the original testing station ;D
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does the computer say no?
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no reason why the place nearest cant do a MOT. will obviously be a full test, but no reason they cant, as the retest thing is only applicable to the original testing station ;D Same station different tester is also a full test - you can only partial retest a car you tested in the first place... The computer won't say no. |
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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Same station different tester is also a full test - you can only partial retest a car you tested in the first place... See, I thought that was the case too, which made this requirement to wait ten days seem even odder. We're going to play along with them. My Brother and his mate use them a lot so they don't want to make a fuss over a £300 car that they're doing as a favour. I can't complain or else I'd have to start coughing up actual monies. <off on a tangent> Has anyone ever heard of cars before 2000 being able to use non-type approved parts but cars after 2000 can't or they may fail the MOT? This is the reason quoted by a couple of parts suppliers for why the official exhaust and cat for mine, based on the model, is a couple of hundred quid but they could offer a non-type approved one for only £70 when they type in the reg number to search. I didn't get into the detail with the guys so it might only be for cat converters. The Seat dealer kind of confirmed it by saying that they don't carry the exact part I was looking for (the cheap one) because, while it fits, fitting it to a newer car would affect the MOT. I called the dealer to check the part number of the cheapo one would fit. |
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Just catylists. Since march all replacements have to be type approved OEM spec.
edit - just to clarify, it isn't a MoT rule, it's a supply and fit requirement. You can be fined for fitting "sub-standard" catylists, but as a tester I only have to check the gas passing through it.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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Nice one, thanks for clearing that up.
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froggy
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no reason why the place nearest cant do a MOT. will obviously be a full test, but no reason they cant, as the retest thing is only applicable to the original testing station ;D Same station different tester is also a full test - you can only partial retest a car you tested in the first place... The computer won't say no. my computer must be broke then as all five of us testing at my place do each others re tests and have done for the last five years  |
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insig
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In contrary to scaryoldcortinas post above, any tester at the testing station that carried out the original test can do the retest.
If you take the scenario of a tester failing a car on a Friday, the vehicle presenter gets it fixed over the weekend and brings it in for a retest the following Monday. The original tester is away for two weeks holiday. The testing station can't say the testers on holiday, we'll get our replacement tester to do a full test on it and charge you a full test fee.
It's not against the rules to retest someone elses full test, but it can present its own problems in that the replacement tester may well find something that the first tester missed and issue another fail, so that's the free retest used and it's another full test thereafter.
The only time a tester must do his own retest is when a PRS is done, which makes sense as the tester can't issue a pass for a vehicle awaiting a PRS repair and can't log a new test on until the results are entered for the current test.
A testing station refusing you a test appointment because another station has tested the car in the previous 10 days, and they're telling you it's policy. That's complete rubbish. VOSAs own manual for their testing stations, called the MOT Testing Guide says exactly the opposite, to quote:
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2. AEs must offer an appointment to test any vehicle of a class within their authorisation at the earliest practicable date and time bearing in mind their existing MOT workload.
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Unless they are fully booked for the next 10 days, they HAVE to give you an appointment, and VOSA wouldn't be too pleased with them to hear that they are refusing to give an appointment for such a reason.
AE - is the Authorised Examiner which will be the company that employs the MOT tester.
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Handbook for scheme administration, section B5-17. Ideally, any re-examination should be carried out by the NT who completed the original test, but where this is not reasonably practicable any NT listed on the VT26 at that VTS may carry out the re- examination Ok, that makes sense (if a bit totally buried in the manual), but my AE is sure (until tomorrow) that we can't do each others fails without a full retest. I'll make sure I correct him, lol. also..  |
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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beany
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It could just be them trying to cover there backs as it looks dodgy a car failing a test then not going back for its free re-test, but instead being mot'd again elsewhere, especially somewhere so far from the original test may look like an over the phone job to VOSA at the other end of the computer. VOSA actually look at the records and mark you down on their trafic light system for garages if you test a large amount of vehicles registered outside of your catchment area (which I was told as where i work is by a university so cars from all over the country come to us from there) so who knows what else they might think about other things.
but yeah they can't legally refuse it.
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