MOT time
- Thread starter smoggy mark
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Yep looks like thats the case mate,few say you could fail with the 2nd cat been removed but think if it passes the emissions test your ok.
Good day for MOT's it seems! I've just had the guy come drop my keys off, mine passed too with Decat without him doing any friendly changes :thumbsup:2nd MOT passed with no advisorys and no probs with the decatroud:
john_walker74
Paid Member
Good stuff!
Cheers mate think you would of failed it as it was rather dirty after the crap weather we had ha!
Paddy_R
Platinum Member
The lovely Northern Ireland MOT, it's totally different beast to the mainland one. Best of luck mate, I'm sure you'll be fine.
-Eddie-
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Paddy_R
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I always use Ards. My bike is due it's first MOT (its got a massive 3,800 miles on it) and it will go to Ards in January when I get around to booking it. Our MOT is harder than on the mainland UK, what with the automated ramps shaking the vehicle to test bushes etc. Also all our test centres are government run and not just a local garage which means standards are higher and for example we can't get a broken bulb fixed if it goes, we just get failed. Though we don't have to bother with it till the vehicle is 4 years old.
I've seen those ramps at Halfrauds before, wondered what they where used for as I'd never seen one before. Bit harsh on the bulb front though.
Paddy_R
Platinum Member
I had to stop a MOT tester from putting my car into the air by jacking it up on the skirts when I had my ST on those ramps. Its supposed to be the same test with the same standards but its not. I've seen both being done and the standard is higher in NI due to the better equipment used to test them.
Those ramps are used over here too. The place that MOT's our vans at work use them. I wouldn't let my clio within a mile of any of their "technicians" though after they've sent out my old car with loose wheel nuts and recently broke a rear bearing on a van, then sent that out too (with the wheel barely still attached).
Paddy_R
Platinum Member
Theres the main difference, the testers over here are not allowed to touch the vehicle with any tools, are a large bar to check bushes. ALL they do is test cars from 8:30am to around 9pm. If there is anything wrong with the vehicle of to your own mechanic you go. Means the testers can't say something needs replaced to pass the test and they can do it for X amount of pounds.
Yeah, we have council operated test centres over here too that are a similar idea. My car tends to go to DDC in doncaster (renault specialists) and they do the MOT too, so far they've been dead sound, even squeezed me through on some iffy tyres because I told them I was waiting a delivery of my new ones (which I was, and fitted two days later).
