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Originally Posted by sxi girlie  good luck with the mot as the mot boys think they know eveything!! my brother took his mk4 gsi for its first mot last week and they told him to take the courtnaey sport fmic off cause it was not getting cooled enough!!! |
The MOT centres here are a complete joke. Last week they tried to fail one of my Citroen XMs on headlight alignment... because it had been sitting 15 minutes (while they all stood around and had some handbag slinging argument about something), and the suspension had sank down low. He kept saying 'Oh your beam setter is off, your alignment is way out'... and I was just like 'No mate, it doesn't have a beam setter, its self levelling suspension...if you'd just let me start the engine and it'll rise to normal height...'. But he argued tooth and nail with me, over a car he obviously knew nothing about.
Then they couldn't find the front indicators (they're at the bottom of the bumper, not beside the headlights), so he was about to note a fail for that too.
THEN, they put it on the ramp and didn't apply the parking brake (despite me showing him how to use it 4 times), and it near rolled off! I was ****ing rippin! They really haven't a clue...
It passed though. Unlike my Astra last time it was there, which failed because of dirt on a brake pipe!
Did anyone hear the thing slagging them off on Cool FM this morning? People saying that they'd brought cars in that failed, and brought them back for retests, untouched, and they passed fine! Complete fleecing scam like....
Anyway, glad to see you got the Calibra back on the road Tim
Fingers and toes are crossed. Insured it tonight, nearly 1700 quid 
