The MOT thread

[petet16]

MOT prep for the T16 began this week, it's been sorned since October.

First thing was to remove the dehumidifiers, they've done a good job, no signs of mould, or condensation.
Next up was to connect a freshly charged battery, it fired up at the first touch of the key, checked all the obvious stuff like tyres, lights, etc, all good, I need to take the angle grinder and wire brush to the front discs to smarten them up a bit.
I've been going over it with a clay bar to remove the moss, tree sap, and various other stuff that has appeared on the paint work over the winter.
Finally I added 10 litres of fresh fuel and a bottle of Forte petrol treatment, so I reckon next week it'll get booked in for the test, and ptsssh can commence for the summer

[Ritchy]

Well subaru passed last month with no advises, and the new owner of my old zs (the tech next to me) put it in, failed on 2 c.v. boots....not bad for its only ever fail

[peterzs]

Good results, Ritchy.

Your engine still going strong in the subaru???

[Ritchy]

Yeah seems to be, touch wood! Exhaust is blowing at the mid section, olive blown I think!

[peterzs]

Too heavy a right foot??????????

Glad its running well.

[Stephen]

Aurora has a 12 month mot!

Pass today and actually commented on how well she is

[stamford]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Aurora has a 12 month mot!

Pass today and actually commented on how well she is

Nice one!

I dropped mine off last night for its MOT. It was last done in July 2013 and only done 3k miles since! The drive there was interesting............I forgot how quick it was! Still waiting for the phone call.........

[stamford]

Well I won't know until I get home as the SRS light is being intermittent during the test apparently, nothing else mentioned so a knife edge pass/fail scenario. If I get lucky then it'll be another year straight through! Hope it does pass as it means I can tax it tonight If not I can't retest it until next Weds

[stamford]

The SRS light was an issue even though I have no airbags and only one seatbelt left...........so he had to give it a fail on that basis, new tester as well. So over the weekend the soldering iron will be out and doing its thing. It'll be sorted for next Weds when I should be able to get it back to the garage. First time it's had a refusal since new which ain't bad for a 13 year old motor.

[talkingcars]

If you remove the SRS ECU and the bulb and remove the airbag from the dash and passenger seat (or tape over the markings on them) so you have disabled the system completely I would have thought it should pass.