Took the Freelander for its Warrant (MOT) today - passed
Funny thing happened though. Took the Starlet up as well and the bloke said it has failed on the high brake light - he showed me - put his foot on the brake and I went round the back and sure enough the high (middle) brake light was out. "Give it a thump" he said - so I whacked the back window and hey presto it came on. "That'll be a pass then" he said
we got a tester like that locally..
each time I run a car in to him he charges the same, pass or fail. but after the free retest or if its a straight pass I always tip him a tenner (£10)
if its a headlight out of adjustment, he`ll do his best to reset it.
they (testers) get an hour to do the test now, so cant rush the VOSA printout of pass or fail, so he gets a bit of time for a chat in between.....
the guy wont let anything go, but uses his disgresion on certain things...
but does like his "advisories" section like - my lexus passed no problems, but put down as advisories "cant see brake pipes due to underbody covers" (streamlining) just covers his a$$ I guess ......but happy days..
took 2 goes to get my daughters KA in a week before my lexus.....
but then shes had it 5 years and does big miles in it..
runs sweet as a nut, but was shocked at the milage reading for this years MOT
(its put down for each year now) was put as 3459 or something = 103.459`ish miles, now on 2nd time going round and still runs just great......