MOT in Bedfordshire area

[har-vey]

Does anyone know of somewhere i can get an mot in the bedfordshire area where they will nicely wave the fact i dont have a cat?

[har-vey]

i dont mind if i have to travel a distance

[H_D]

can you travel to leicester?

[har-vey]

yea its only an hour away

[H_D]

This saturday?

[har-vey]

cant this saturday, having a washing machine delivered lol. i also need to check when it runs out, will be soon as ive had the car for 8 months now

[H_D]

Ok no worries there are a couple of freindly M.O.T testers in leicester that i know very well. I am sure they will sort you out as i have had M.O.Ts done for other perfomance enthusiasts and starlet owners too.

Let me know when you are ready.

[har-vey]

cheers bud

[Flaminsam]

On what car? Of its glanza or gt it doesn't matter about a cat. They should do a vehicle specific test (if they follow the manual properly) and the machines in the uk do not have glanza or gt on their databases. So it has to meet the minimum requirements I.e a non cat test. If its a uk n/a then you have to have one. I'll try to find the details online when I get in.

[har-vey]

thought if it was past a 95 it did ?

[H_D]

On what car? Of its glanza or gt it doesn't matter about a cat. They should do a vehicle specific test (if they follow the manual properly) and the machines in the uk do not have glanza or gt on their databases. So it has to meet the minimum requirements I.e a non cat test. If its a uk n/a then you have to have one. I'll try to find the details online when I get in.

It all comes down the the M.O.T testers discretion on this im afraid!

you just need a tester who knows about his import cars.

Plenty of people on here have failed M.O.Ts as the tester did not know fuk all about non uk equivalant rules.

Edited February 6, 2013 by H_D

[Flaminsam]

check this from the current MOT testers manual.

http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/htdocs/m4s07000309_1.gif

if you follow the flow chart it simply tells you to carry out a vehicle specific test. by the way this is after the vehicle has failed a standard cat test.

this works for ep82's and early glanza models.

Edited February 6, 2013 by Flaminsam

[har-vey]

'carry out a cat test using defult limits' what does this mean? do there not need to be a cat present?

[Flaminsam]

the default limits are specified at the end of that flow chart. failing your car on the emissions is a good possibility. who is to say you didnt get the engine from a gt?

I had a fiesta many moons ago. it started life as a 1.3 single point injection but the engine had been removed. It was a 1995 car or M reg.

I also had another fiesta 1.6s. The 1.6 was a H reg. I transplanted the 1.6 into the 1.3 shell and took it for mot. The tester immediately said it would fail on emissions.

I consulted my local Vosa testing station in beverley and got a firm answer. The emissions should be relevent to the age of the engine not the age of the car. So i booked my fiesta in for a retest with the same garage that failed it. I informed the Vosa station that i had re submitted my fiesta for testing. I was plesently supprised to see the Vosa testing van in the car park awaiting my car for test.

After a "dissagreement" with the Vosa tester the Mot tester was put on the straight and narrow. Needless to say the fiesta was never a problem on emissions ever again.

[1991 starlet owner]

Aaahhh really?? Didn't know that! So my ep82 is an import 91 so doesn't fall under emissions testing.. What if I got a forged engine built and put in?? Would it then be tested for emissions as the engine would technically be brand new and fall under new guidlines??

Tom.

[dan106]

Give us a pm if you still need one doing mate