Dodgy Practices

[Dustydog]

A thread on another Forum , 48 posts, has highlighted an issue with ******** attitude on MOTs.

Customers are reporting that the *** staff when failing an MOT are refusing to allow the customer to remove the car until *** have completed the repair.

This cannot be correct even for a bulb or wiper blade!
I thought retention of the vehicle by the testing station was only if the car was dangerous. Even then surely you are allowed to have the car removed to your home or another?

Is this an illegal practice by ***?🙀

 

[Jcloughie]

I found this, but it is only advice from the ‘we buy any car’ site.

If your car has failed its MOT, you can still drive it, providing no 'dangerous' faults were highlighted during the test and your previous MOT certificate is still in date.

It makes sense to me.

I once had an Anglia fail due to Macpherson struts.

I drove it home and put two new ones on. Went back for a re-test. The tester did not even come out the office, just issued the pass certificate.

Things were poor back then.

John

 

[RogerL]

This sounds illegal and needs reporting to DVSA.

 

[woodsieboy]

Would never use a major national name for MOT I trust my local service garage, owner is also caravanner