right so, as bus is booked in for mot on tuesday, at nearest garage to house , and mot guy is approx 26yoa, what you"se think i should leave a very BIG note ,say A4 size paper , explaining my bus has a gennie ,not alt, not to rev the nuts off it ,not to pump gas peddle endlessly when starting and in addition to that note ,label the dash switches like"this is the horn ,wipers,wash bottle ( which is air operated) I can forsee A>one *******ed off mot tester B>A grateful mot tester or C>summit else?(and no, he is unlikely to punch me on the nose,prob lose his job!)perhaps too "heavy" to add to note, "the engine is in the boot"? what say you?
I try and book an MOT at a time when I can stay for the test. That way (a) if anything needs pointing out I can do so and (b) I know exactly how my bus has been treated.
Are you off work on tuesday... as legally you're allowed to observe the mot while they're doing it... they might have an observation area for you to stand in, just depends on the garage
Yeah I'd stay with it (I always do) and then you can explain the odd thing. I used to take my old bus to a tester who had been around a while and no doubt encountered these old things during his career. I need to check he's still around.... I have also labelled my switches (Washer / Heater / Horn ) for just this event...
I took mine once where they had a yoof on work experience. they giggled as they sent him out to get the chassis number. After a few minutes, he came back in as he couldn't find it so I volunteered to show him. "I can't find the bonnet pull" he said as he opened the cab door. "where do you think the bonnet is?" I asked. Much head scratching. "got to be in here somewhere" "not much room for an engine up front is there?" I said. He was still scrabbling about. He had a look underneath the front in search of the engine. "is it electric?" Got to admit I was also sniggering by then, but I wanted to see if he could work it out. He couldn't and in the end I had to take him round the back to show him. God bless. Remember, 50% of the people you meet are below average intelligence.
guys ,i am laughing at these replies ,not in a nasty way ,at the humour,thing is ,i assumed as test is in "legal" premises and H&S is dictating everything now , i was of (my own) opinion that i would not be allowed near /in vehicle ,esp. to operate any controls ,thou me being a more "vintage wine "(read old), i do recall doing the controls during test in days of yore ,(when i could discuss the car(not bus)with tester and adjust a "part" to obtain the pass cert.(i also remember when the cops had to give me a "7 day wonder" i.e. doc saying i had 2 produce legal docs within 7 days or else !(giving me time to get nec.docs, as i was a heaving criminal !)a.k.a.>the good old days???
You should come to my MOT place... under the ramps pointing bits out to you, let you bring it in or take it out off the ramps Give the garage a call tomorrow, see what the score is with them... A lot of "newer" garages, do have a dedicated viewing area, a bit like a waiting room with a window facing the MOT area!!
My tester would have me do all the work for him! I make a quick exit or he'd have me doing the brake testing... The plus side if it it does fail on the brakes, they re-test it before logging on so I get as many goes as I like and they only log on when we know it'll pass. When I was a civilian one place failed it (and got really shirty) because it dripped oil on his nice clean floor! It never did it before so gawd knows what he did - probably revved the nuts off it. Next time I took it elsewhere and they broke the gear linkage nr the box. After that I insisted I stayed and drove it onto and off the ramp.
Peeps I last took it to failed her on a few things like..... not functioning sliding door lock...he didn't know how to open it, drivers door, is a bit stiff but failed on that and not having a horn, when there is a clearly visible doorbell on the dash Stay with it when they are testing dude, otherwise you might fail on the engine being in the wrong place
See thats the worry (in my head) ,e.g. it has to be started in a specific way (twin dells) ,but matey may rev the guts out it >when the revs drop so does leckie output ,he may rev the guts out it , (note; there is no real "scene " here ,) so i am scratching about re a knowlegable mot dude ,add to that ,as i understand it ,when driving an MOT_less bus , to a booked mot, it must be nearest mot testing station to bus off road location,hence ,can"t take it to say P.weeding"s guys ,cos if i got a pull.....?(the joys eh.....) but i reckon i would loose it if he mistakes the H/E"s for the exhaust system .
Now this is where there is a grey area. It doesn't have to be the nearest one I think, although it would be down to the discretion of the copper that pulls you as to whether he feels you're stretching the boundaries of a "reasonable" distance from your house.
Stay with it and join in. If they don't like the sound of that, try another. There are MOT testers who will sneer at it and MOT testers who will love it.
I get the "not another one of those bloody old things" jibes all the time... but up round here, taking the piddle out of each other is part of the daily conversation
Sounds like you need to stay with it dude!! I'm a proper fusser when my stuff goes in... If it's aircooled and got a big motor in it, then I'm hanging around!! Otherwise I leave them too it, and they call me if there's any issues!!
I'd stay with it as well. It's interesting to see the test being done and my tester always gives me the option to have a fiddle if something electrical has decided to give up (number plate light, horn etc) My tester gets me to sit in and does things like brakes and lights etc while he's looking from the outside. The only time he gets in is to use the accelerator for the emissions. I took a very smokey series 3 landy to him one week after it'd been off the road for a year being done up. He told me to go for a run up the dual carriage way and come back before we did the sniff test. You see, some testers are like normal people
