verytalldave
MB Enthusiast
Never been done on mine.................
No.
simon22
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why do you ask, the answer is no , answered earlier , can we ask why you want to know..........
No they are not allowed to dismantle the car in any way.
Muppetz
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why do you askcan we ask why you want to know..........
Basically we sold our Renault Scenic, chap picked it up last night, we couldn't find the locking wheel nut though (I've never used it, only had the car 6 months and only the wife has driven it). We didn't know if we had not received a locking nut when we bought it (we didn't check...) or if it had been lost by us.
Now the scenic was MOT'd last week, so I thought if the wheels came off during an MOT then the MOT place would have needed the locking nut, so I would have been able to phone them and ask if they remembered where they put it back in the car. I didn't want to phone and ask if wheels didn't actually come off during an MOT though, so I asked here.....
...and rather than make a long boring post I just asked the question here
(as I know the forum is well populated by learned people !)Thanks again
SilverSaloon
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on a similar note (well related to MOTs anyway!)....
if a car has an advisary last MOT about some rust... then on the next MOT the part appears all fixed, but covered with underseal, is this likely to cause problems? i ask as i had a few advisaries on the last MOT on the SL (not when i owned it), but i'm restoring it so have fixed quite a few things. I heard that they often fail it if they cannot see the bare weld etc.......
if a car has an advisary last MOT about some rust... then on the next MOT the part appears all fixed, but covered with underseal, is this likely to cause problems? i ask as i had a few advisaries on the last MOT on the SL (not when i owned it), but i'm restoring it so have fixed quite a few things. I heard that they often fail it if they cannot see the bare weld etc.......
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I thought they had to check for evidence of a cause of danger, a repair is a repair, if they cant see a fault, then there is no fault to be recorded.
Should be fine on advisories from last MOT, when they want to "see" the repair is on the retest after a failure, so they know it's not just a pop-riveted plate coated with underseal.on a similar note (well related to MOTs anyway!)....
if a car has an advisary last MOT about some rust... then on the next MOT the part appears all fixed, but covered with underseal, is this likely to cause problems? i ask as i had a few advisaries on the last MOT on the SL (not when i owned it), but i'm restoring it so have fixed quite a few things. I heard that they often fail it if they cannot see the bare weld etc.......
talbir
MB Enthusiast
On the issue of locking wheel nuts etc, check all of the wheels nuts are present in the wheel - it's a failure if even one of the 20 are missing.
talbir
talbir
On another similar note - they don't have to drive the car either. Once had a car fail a "free" MOT on knocking CV joints (on full lock) and several other dubious failures. Took it elsewhere and it was passed with one advisory - tester said joints "inspected" fine, boots were sound and no play, they only way they would have heard the knocking is from driving the car around the back to put it on the ramp.