Possible dodgy MOT
I recently bought a car at a car auction for £1200. It was sold as 'No Major Faults', One local owner from new, Full Service History and with a new MOT which was actually done just 2 days earlier.
I bid and Won and drove it home. Straight away we noticed the air bag light as on, but also there was a knocking sound. Cant be much, its just had an MOT we said to each other. But anyway we decided to get the car into a garage and up on a lift and we uncovered the following faults.
O/S front shock, wishbone rear bushes, tie rod, and the knocking, well that is an engine mount. So with the air bag light on and also a stone chip in drivers view on the windscreen its definitely an MOT fail.
Today I called VOSA, really just to warn them they need to keep an eye on this MOT test centre.
But they took a very different view.
I got a call back very quickly from my nearest VOSA centre who told me the car had failed an MOT in March for the same points I have just reported that are wrong now. So it should not have been issued with a pass if they have not been rectified. They also said things do not quite ad up. The fail and the pass tests were done more than 4 weeks apart, and the paperwork has recorded identical mileage readings. So the car drove 0 miles in over 4 weeks. OK if it was off the road, but it was two different test centres, so the car had at the very least had to travel at some time from one to the other.Yes it could have gone on a trailer, but hey, the car was not immobile!!!
So with my permission VOSA have booked another MOT appointment, at the same test centre that issued the pass, and asked if I would take it for a re test. But they are sending a VOSA inspector to do the test, and the guy who issued the pass cert will watch. They are not telling the garage what car is being re tested, just that they are coming in with a car for retest. The garage will be sh...ing their pants, it will have serious repercussions regarding their licence to test in the future if its shown they have been negligent or worse issued a dodgy cert!
PLUS I shall be looking at some recompense, as I would not even have bid on a car as sold as seen or with no MOT. This may be directed at the MOT test centre or the previous keeper, it depends on what happens at the re test and who we think is most liable.
I bid and Won and drove it home. Straight away we noticed the air bag light as on, but also there was a knocking sound. Cant be much, its just had an MOT we said to each other. But anyway we decided to get the car into a garage and up on a lift and we uncovered the following faults.
O/S front shock, wishbone rear bushes, tie rod, and the knocking, well that is an engine mount. So with the air bag light on and also a stone chip in drivers view on the windscreen its definitely an MOT fail.
Today I called VOSA, really just to warn them they need to keep an eye on this MOT test centre.
But they took a very different view.
I got a call back very quickly from my nearest VOSA centre who told me the car had failed an MOT in March for the same points I have just reported that are wrong now. So it should not have been issued with a pass if they have not been rectified. They also said things do not quite ad up. The fail and the pass tests were done more than 4 weeks apart, and the paperwork has recorded identical mileage readings. So the car drove 0 miles in over 4 weeks. OK if it was off the road, but it was two different test centres, so the car had at the very least had to travel at some time from one to the other.Yes it could have gone on a trailer, but hey, the car was not immobile!!!
So with my permission VOSA have booked another MOT appointment, at the same test centre that issued the pass, and asked if I would take it for a re test. But they are sending a VOSA inspector to do the test, and the guy who issued the pass cert will watch. They are not telling the garage what car is being re tested, just that they are coming in with a car for retest. The garage will be sh...ing their pants, it will have serious repercussions regarding their licence to test in the future if its shown they have been negligent or worse issued a dodgy cert!
PLUS I shall be looking at some recompense, as I would not even have bid on a car as sold as seen or with no MOT. This may be directed at the MOT test centre or the previous keeper, it depends on what happens at the re test and who we think is most liable.
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