Damn Jobsworth MOT Test Mechanic...

[Richie B]

Car failed the MOT yesterday:

--- Registration plate fitted to the rear does not have black characters on a yellow background [6.3.2b]----



Same goes for the front.

Now I have certainly seen 3 previous MOTs with no problem at all and I imagine the previous owner even more. Is it just me or are they being a bit bloody picky? I see boy racers cutting around all the time with italicized characters in weird fonts. Never seen one pulled over and cautioned by the police for having illegal plates fitted.

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[Mervin]

yes seems a bit picky but was it a MOT tester and station you know well, or they may even have been an inspector from the ministry lurking in the area

 

[Richie B]

yes seems a bit picky but was it a MOT tester and station you know well, or they may even have been an inspector from the ministry lurking in the area

I don't know them well as i'm fairly new to the area. Booked via Kwik Fit for Autospeed Chippenham.

 

[Mervin]

yes they have to be careful if strangers come in ,My Brother in law has an MOT garage , and if someone unknown bring in a car he is always suspicious of the ministry planting some faults to test him

 

[Barftone]

Go see Corsham auto repairs. Jamie owns it and is a biker and sound. Tell him Tony from Bath sent you

 

[-XP-]

Am I the only one seeing that it does have black characters on a yellow background? Why did he fail it?

 

[Richie B]

It's not solid black. There's a thin grey line running through the middle of the characters.

 

[Traveller]

The name Kwikfit reminds me of the time I pulled in to a Kwikfit on my 35 mile commute to work. A recently fitted exhaust (not fitted by them) had started rattling and blowing and I didnt fancy the journey home with the problem.
They told me that I needed a complete new system as the wole thing had failed. I declined, carried on to work and faffed about with some twisted coat hangers as a temporary fix for the journey home and re tightened a clamp that evening when I got home. That was all it was. The exhaust lasted at least another five years till I sold the car.
The point being that I wonder if the just happened to supply new number plates?

Ps, just stick a thin strip of black tape over the offending grey lines for now! Then take it to a different, non franchised garage in future.

 

[CrazyFrog]

+1 Traveller. If Kwikfit told me rain is wet, I'd ask for a second opinion.

Years ago I took an old Metro in for a back box, and when it was up on the ramps they came in with solemn faces telling me the front pads and disks were knackered. I told them I'd sort it out myself, which I did 80,000 miles later.

Lying barstewards......

 

[hotbulb]

They caught a friend of mine many years ago......
He'd gone in for,i think, an MOT. Must have spotted the child seat in the car and gave him the full
" As a family man you must always put your kids' safety uppermost, and your shock absorbers are pat their best: it would be best to replace them before they cause an accident!"
routine.
As I recall, he came away with a much lighter wallet and 4 new tyres, 4 new shockers .... and a little wiser to the "tricks of the trade".

 

[-XP-]

It's not solid black. There's a thin grey line running through the middle of the characters.

Ahhh... Doesn't really show on this works computer.

 

[Mervin]

black paint over the thin grey line , yes Kwikfit ore the likes told my old man his Marina front shocks where gone once, they where new genuine leyalnd parets fitted by the local garage only 3 weeks before ,( Lever arm shocks not telescopic ) the old man said pull the other one it has got bells on, and said they where only fitted 3 weeks ago , the guy said no seriously they are gone , take it back to the garage that fitted them in that case , so he did , Keith bounced on the front of the cat declared the shocks NBG , Phoned local leyalnd main dealer that had supplied shocks , and told them they where supplying and fitting the next set themselves FOC because he was not doing it again , and they better be right , and they did it