MOT - unusual advisory

[E55BOF]

The risk with this approach, which smacks of enforcing my rights at any expense instead of being a bit more understanding about what has happened, is that it leads to a 'Jobsworth' and work to rule culture, as the MOT tester would potentially be reprimanded for actually helping someone out in a possible grey area.

Ixnay with the sweeping generalisations... The MoT tester has to 'work to rule'; it's the MoT tester's manual.

This thread has become an argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin...

 

[whitenemesis]

This thread has become an argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin

35, clearly!!

 

[markjay]

So where exactly on the windscreen was the satnav holder fixed? Dangling from the centre, or discreetly tucked away in the lower right corner?;

 

[whitenemesis]

So where exactly on the windscreen was the satnav holder fixed? Dangling from the centre, or discreetly tucked away in the lower right corner?;

I fitted it by the right hand A pillar

 

[BTB 500]

So where exactly on the windscreen was the satnav holder fixed? Dangling from the centre, or discreetly tucked away in the lower right corner?;

I had an MB Club sticker in the bottom right-hand corner of my windscreen, and this did get removed by an MOT tester. Yet we've had a German emissions disc (same size) in the same position on our Vito for 13+ years with no issue. IIRC there used to be a rule that you could have something 'necessary' on the screen (e.g. a tax disc, when we had those), although this makes no sense from a safety POV. Something is either blocking your view or it isn't.

 

[markjay]

Isn't it something to do with the swept area of the wipers? Same as with windscreen defects?

 

[geoffus]

This thread has become an argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin...

It’s raining here all day,, we have to argue about something.
Anyway angels can’t dance, you mean pixies.

 

[Deleted member 65149]

Isn't it something to do with the swept area of the wipers? Same as with windscreen defects?

Yes:

View to the front and windscreen obscuration

www.gov.uk

 

[markjay]

...I got a suction pad one. I fitted it by the right hand A pillar....

Where, vertically? At the bottom near the dash, or higher up?

 

[UrbanM]

Live and learn. Like I said. I only resorted to the suction mount holder. Tucked away just above the vent because the original one I was using would move left and right because the vent couldn’t hold it in one place. Such are the C Class vents. Anyway. Let’s consider this thread closed. Thanks.

 

[UrbanM]

Where, vertically? At the bottom near the dash, or higher up?

Just on top of the dash.

 

[Deleted member 159894]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey, can we just move this thing along, before it drives us all round the bloody bend?

You OK?