Haimsey
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Marcy Marc 
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Joe
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Things can change in a year? Otherwise the MOT would be every 10 years or something?
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DannyB
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Oh. Dear.
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Iain M
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quote:
Originally posted by RYAN89
why take it to vaux though?
Stavs said he tok it to vaux and had no worries and i thought i would do the same.
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Graham88
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quote:
Originally posted by Joe
Things can change in a year? Otherwise the MOT would be every 10 years or something?
That's what I thought, hence different things fail each other.
Does seem a bit silly however, especially the price.
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Mike GSi
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Take it elsewhere tbh
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Ryan
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isnt the rule now that if it fails its mot, it instantly voids any mot that you may have left on it?
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Graham88
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Nope not true, aslong as your current one is still in date you have time to rectify it, hence you can take it a month earlier I think it is
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sxibeast
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Jeebus!
Wonder if it was a a dried line of dirty water that he thought was a crack on the spring?
Go to Mr Clutch, its £25 for an MOT (if you print the online voucher off).
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Iain M
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Things don't change that much well not to the tune of £856.77 they don't i only picked the bloody car up in dec and i genuinely thought it would fly through
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Iain M
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Shall be going my local mot place i think tomoz. I still have the old sri rear springs but there is fuckall wrong with these tho
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Ryan
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quote:
Originally posted by Graham88
Nope not true, aslong as your current one is still in date you have time to rectify it, hence you can take it a month earlier I think it is
ah right, i thought the rule had changed, so that even if it did have a month on it and it failed, it would be down on the system as un-roadworthy.
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Iain M
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quote:
Originally posted by sxibeast
Jeebus!
Wonder if it was a a dried line of dirty water that he thought was a crack on the spring?
Go to Mr Clutch, its £25 for an MOT (if you print the online voucher off).
what on both springs?
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corsa-sxi
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probably more than half is labouri mean to fit headlight its a bumper off job, headlight should be about what? £150?
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Mike GSi
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i bet the headlight is fine, they just have some little 16 year old fucktard trying to align it, they dont just go out of line, maybe the bulb is in wrong?
as you said the springs are fine, and i gather the wheels dont catch on the arches etc?
Alot of tester fail cars out of spite, for whatever reasons. just take it somewhere else mate
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Joe
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quote:
Originally posted by Iain M
Things don't change that much well not to the tune of £856.77 they don't i only picked the bloody car up in dec and i genuinely thought it would fly through
Course they can, yes the price is excessive but you took it to Vauxhall. They are on £80 an hour labour or something ridiculous.
If things can't change in a year then you should write to the government and tell them a yearly MOT is pointless.
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Iain M
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£220 for the headlight they told me. £177 to fit new rear seatbelt
£184 for rear springs
i think where the prices may be abit more or less. Good job i was sat down when she told me.
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Adam_B
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the whole signing to say it was unsafe thing, did you ask him to show you these so called cracks in the springs?
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Mike GSi
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My mates Uber mint XR3i does litteraly 100 miles a year, and each year it fails on something, becuase the MOT testers are badgers, last year it failed on a perrished window wiper blade, simply becuase it has never seen any water
Just to point out things can and do change in a year! 
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richc
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quote:
Originally posted by Graham88
quote:
Originally posted by Joe
Things can change in a year? Otherwise the MOT would be every 10 years or something?
That's what I thought, hence different things fail each other.
Does seem a bit silly however, especially the price.
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Iain M
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Don't worry shall be going else where. Joe fairpoint mate but am just saying i haven't changed anything was such a big bloody shock.
Adam it was dark and the car was parked in the car park as i have been at work and collected it when i finished.
[Edited on 30-01-2009 by Iain M]
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Richardhhha
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things change withing weeks mate, my car passed its emmisions test a few weeks ago spot bollock on and yaterday the thing was having some silly readings comming out the tail pipe.
i see what you mean tho they are taking ou for a run!!
pairents old bluebird got raped on a mot, tested said that gearbox sup plug was loose and leaking gearoil everywhere failed, both drive shaft gators were split and had damaged CV's failed, headlamp was cracked deflecting beam failed... funny thing was me and my dad looked over the car in the car park and the gearbox was bone dry and when we got it back it was oily, the headlamp wasnt cracked, and the cv gators were all sound... they take the piss trust me this isnt the first time and i dought it will be the last they take the piss motin your car
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Iain M
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Its just the ball ache of having to give up my saturday to fucking sort things out and do another mot.
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Richardhhha
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it is a shitter i know,
this seat belt thing what is actualy wrong and what part?
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Iain M
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They say there is to much play and its the actual mechanism behind the pastic cover it doesn't lock on a sharp tug as its supposed to.
[Edited on 30-01-2009 by Iain M]
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