GUNNER

The dreaded once over was due today,so off i went to get it over with.Handed over the key's on arrival and watched with everthing crossed as the guy stuck the probe up the afterburner system,did that then checked the rest of the car over.Came over to me and said sorry mate a couple of problem's,sh*t i thought i'm gonna have to change the exhaust back over,but no firstly one headlight bulb needed re-seating for alignment,and then GET THIS your sunstrip with subaru logo on will have to come off because of new regulation's,anything that come's within the wiper sweep is illegal!!!

Blame the "nova" driver's he said throwing 18 quid's worth of my car in the bin... because they cover half there windscreen in sunstrip's you guy's with neat looking one's now have to suffer.

Anyway got the magic piece of paper and off i went...


Mike..

scoobyboy

the way around that is to put slightly smaller wipers on

RichardPON

Not that unbelievable.

I know of several people who have failed their MOT because the boost pod they had on the A pillar obscured too much of the driver's visibility!

I **** you not.

scooby_si

so how wood that sticker thing work with a HUD then?
Si

stephen30

Me too. Mine had to be done this week, both my headlights were out anr the Sunstrip was "encroaching into zone A". Rear number plate lights were dead too. Didn't know I had any or the point of them for that matter.
Took the sunstrip off myself and then back again to get the lights sorted. How light is it in the car now!

Steve

scooby_xt_turbo

something should be done though about the different standards in each MOT station. I had been failed for a really tiny hole in my old celica's backbox and after a week one of my mates passed his Lancia Delta with a hole caused by rust where the right sidelight should be.

RON

Bit of a bu66er Mike, glad you got 'the' ticket though, easier to trash the sunstrip than swap the system!!

Fantom

My corolla failed cos the sun strip was too low. The wipers nearly came up to the top of the window anyway, so I had to scrap it!

Fantom

the strip that is, not the car

astraboy

Why dont you just cut away the part of the strip which is swept by the blades? Might look a bit naff but they cant touch you for it...
astraboy.

beanchimp

I asked my Neighbour about this

he said its utter nonsense, failing cars due to sunstrip in the way, there is no regulation against it as far as he knows

he certainly wouldnt fail any car with a sunstrip

turbo2000

MINE PAST WITH SUNSTRIP BUT THE THING CAME OFF FRIDAY NIGHT IT MUST HAVE LIFTED A BIT AND THEN THE WIPERS DID THE REST BUT THATS HOW IT GOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Miles

Last year one of the fail points on my Scoob was due to the radar detector bracket which I'd left attached to the windscreen. The other points where due to loose anti-roll bar links

scoobyskid

They'll be failing you for having a rear view mirror and tax disc attached to the screen next. God knows what they'll make of Salsa-Kings car!

Scoobyskid.

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

Gunner, You must of had a **** of a Tester, My GSI has one,(A Nice carbon Fibre replica) slightly smaller than my fellow nova boys ones but it past and its 6" in depth,unless the tester was over 6 foot tall ?

What you doing with a boy racer accessory anyway ?

Fuzz

"that bonnet scoop will have to go, affects the view of the road you know !"

Andy

tinvek

ok its in section 8 of the manual

sub section 3

basically there are 2 areas of the windscreen

zone a is the area within the swept area but directly above the streeing wheel and the same width as the steering wheel.

zone b is the rest of the swept area of the windscreen

in zone a, any damage, sticker or obstruction which encroaches by more than 10mm is a fail

in zone be they must encroach by 40mm to fail

so in theory a sunstrp should fail if it encroaches more than 1cm in the swept are in front of driver

simple answer as taught on tester's refresher course is fit shorter blades for the test

re the rust issue

in the lancia's case was the side light loose / missing or was there a jagged edge or was the rust within 12 inches of a suspension/ steering / seat / belt mount? if not then unless it seriously weakened the structure it would not be a fail

the toyota would be a fail as any hole before the last box/ or the last mounting if after the box is a fail. however as long as the echuast is solid, any such hole can be repaired with paste etc. added to which if it was catted, it would probably fail the lambda ratio part of the test if it was leaking

tinvek

also just to add

i'm sure any car i tested "would have had short blades fitted at time of test"

and

if a car needs and passes a cat test then in my opinion the exhaust isn't leaking