Scamming MOT scum

[fox]

Car failed its MOT last week for 'excessively corroded suspension bushes', 'headlight aim incorrect' and 'plate light blown'.
They wanted nearly £400 for the bushes, and £30 quid each for headlight aim and plate bulb.
Told them where to stick it and got myself booked in to someone for today.
Surprise surprise, it failed again, but this time none of the above was mentioned.
This time it was for 'exposed wires by headlights'!
They want £85 EACH SIDE, to rewire! Told the guy I can get electrical tape for a quid, and got a jobsworth response about fire safety.

I need to find a "guaranteed pass" station asap!
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[MarJay]

Aren't suspension bushes usually rubber? I've never seen excessively corroded rubber before.
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[Islander]

Repair the defective insulation with self amalgamating tape. Instant and permanent repair.

[fox]

Its a Pug 206 D Turbo.
The fail sheet from last week says "lower wishbone rubber bush deteriorated resulting in excessive movement". Same thing both near and offside.
I just find it sickening that the next place didn't even mention it but picked up on something totally different that again they tried to charge a bomb for.
Aren't mot stations moderated?
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[MarJay]

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If you REALLY want someone to take the piss with an MOT, take it to Halfrauds.
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[MarJay]

Looks like you can get a pair for a 306 with bushes for less than £40:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=Peugeot+306+lower+wishbone+assembly&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.XPeugeot+306+lower+wishbone+assembly+diesel.TRS0&_nkw=Peugeot+30

Get the car up on axle stands, remove bolts, replace wishbone, jack up front wheel slightly to meet the end of the wishbone, tighten bolts to specified torque. Shouldn't take more than 2 hours.

The number plate light might have blown because of the worn insulation on the wiring. I'd probably disconnect or unsolder it, place a bit of heatshrink tubing over it, and then re solder it, and heat up the tubing to seal it.

None of those jobs are particularly taxing TBH.

Oh, and £30 each for headlight aim? You have to be kidding! it takes about a minute!
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[fox]

[yaigi]

Best advice I've got is take it to an MOT station that doesn't do repairs - if they have nothing to gain from failing you then you will get a fair test.

Yes MOT stations are moderated and inspected by VOSA, and when they do inspect they can be quite strict and really anal about tiny little things.... so it might be worth making a complaint.

There are no rules set by them for price of repairs as that is something else entirely, but their testers all have to undergo the exact same tests and should be finding similar if not identical faults. Some amount of opinion is involved when something is only just on the point of wear - but excessive wear should have definitely been noted by both. I would get in touch with VOSA.

My Dad has an MOT station, where are you based?
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[fatjames]

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Two different sets of fails from two different stations.

Grounds to report them both if you're not taking them back there?

(Not sure how it works reporting them for stuff they DIDN'T get, presuming each one is legitimate.)

However, yes, tape up the wiring appropriate and take it back.

Note that apparantly some VOSA people (not sure if it's the same ones that do car MOTs) can be VERY picky.
Thankfully the one that did my annual test, while he was thorough, was also a reasonable human being .
£200 for test and retest, still, hover .

[stinkwheel]

[Shaft]

Scamming MOT scum, or pissed off driver trying to cheapskate through the test?

Seems like you've got faulty wiring, faulty lighting and faulty suspension, some or all of which could be construed as being bad enough to fail the test.

If you maintained your car better, it wouldn't have failed the test at all.
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[Lord Percy]

If you have a fail certificate from one station that lists one set of repairs, and then you go to another station that misses all that and mentions just one totally different repair.... Can you take their fail sheets to the press or something? It'd make a nice little public outcry so the local papers would probably be happy to publish it, and it'd boot them all into line sharpish.

[Ichy]

I'll be phoning VOSA later today. I took a 'ped for a MOT. I knew I had issues when he refused to believe that the headlights only had on and off and had to check with someone else that it was ok. He failed it for not having a number plate light I pointed out that it was 12 years old and had never had a light, it didn't need one. He shouts to his mate who replies, yeah it's illegal, everything has to have one.

He then spent 15 minutes trying to find out how he put it down as a fail since it isn't on the list of items to be checked. He ended up typing it in.

Idiots!
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