tcr4x4
Member Since: 24 Jan 2010
Location: England
Posts: 1526
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Thankfully we have an MOT place here, called Just MOT. Name says it all really.
If something is wrong, they tell you, if not, it passes. No made up work, no sucking of teeth, just pass or fail.
Used them for all 3 cars for the last 7/8 years.
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 24th Feb 2017 4:53 pm |
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trailhound
Member Since: 27 Aug 2015
Location: Colchester
Posts: 697
 
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Fist MOT at Chelmsford council today. Passed with compliments and no advisories. Wiped off the 8 advisories from the previous MOT at a specialist that I have done nothing to correct. I find this discrepancy a bit worrying.
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| 31st Mar 2017 5:41 pm |
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BLFarrar
Member Since: 02 Aug 2006
Location: Deepest, Dankest, Darkest, Dingiest......Le Halifax, West Yorkshire...with strong links to Ireland
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MGCarr wrote:As a start I have to confess a personal interest, until I took early retirement last year, I managed the transport for two large County Council fleets, including their MOT test facilities, over a 25 year period. They are totally independent and the testers are completely impartial, in one council I managed, the DVSA used to use our facilities to carry out appeals tests where a member of the public had complained about the result from another testing station. A number of people including Martin Lewis concentrate on the potential money saving aspect of council testing centres not trying to generate income from failing items that are marginal and that is very relevant but they seem to miss the really significant safety related area of MOT test stations looking at a failure related item and thinking 'that looks a really s**t job and I might be asked to fix it' and deciding to put it on the ticket as an advisory notice or even ignoring it completely.
My advice to any vehicle owner, Land Rover or otherwise, would be if you feel competent to do the work yourself then do so and enjoy the money savings and the satisfaction, if not use a trusted independent but get your MOT tests done by a council run facility as an independent check of the quality of the work.
The way it should be....& indeed is in many other countries...
Having it this way drives the cowboys off the street & makes things safer....far safer, which benefits everybody.
Incidentally...
In NZ - the WOF (warranty of fitness) done every 6 months....government test station.
the pass sticker - windscreen mounted if not in date or not there....on the spot fine, well enforced.
Cars tend to last a lot longer there hence the 6 month intervals.
I believe a way it could be done here too & with a windscreen tax disc...not the discless system as of now
Ireland - your insurance is up there on the windscreen too
Plus...
Insurance in the U.K. If not in force - it's an absolute offence - which means threes no defence unless it's a fleet car which usually means
Minimum 6 points but can be more & fines start off at £350 could be higher - related to income.
One wonders whether this applied equally across the U.K. As a whole ? BREXIT - done properly.
Right now ...We need Government - not Politics
Save the Dipstick Flagbearer-keep it simple, less likely to fail campaign-agenda items:Starting Handles, Acetylene Lamps.
Founder: Dipsticks-R-Us Inc
D3 HSE-perfectly formed, passenger friendly...has real DIPSTICK
Jag XK-but sadly no DIPSTICK...HUGE design fault
FL2 has DIPSTICK..."real comfort in rear seats"
VW Golf wondermobile (?)..has real DIPSTICK
Morris Minor..original DIPSTICK technology..and a real KEY.
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| 10th Apr 2017 6:56 pm |
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trailhound
Member Since: 27 Aug 2015
Location: Colchester
Posts: 697
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trailhound wrote:First MOT at Chelmsford council today. Passed with compliments and no advisories. Wiped off the 8 advisories from the previous MOT at a specialist that I have done nothing to correct. I find this discrepancy a bit worrying.
Second council MOT at Chelmsford Council Depot - 11 months later - Passed; No advisories. 
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| 6th Mar 2018 7:52 pm |
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