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MOT time...
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:08 pm
by ian65
1st gens being mot'd are subject to a visual check for smoke only.... some mot testers who are unused to testing 1st gens, may try to fail your car on emissions... they shouldn't be testing the emissions.
Here's the page from the mot manual...
check out the box in bold text at the bottom right...
it can be downloaded from here.... probably worth printing off and sticking in your glovebox before the test.
http://www.motuk.co.uk/images/non_cat.pdf
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Re: MOT time...
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:56 pm
by Johnnyboy
Brilliant.
Thanks Ian.
Re: MOT time...
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:44 pm
by syebba
This is so useful,i've printed it off to!
ta stu..
Re: MOT time...
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:48 pm
by Lucky
Just wanted to say thanks again to Ian and this excellent forum. Just had the MOT on the FB and took the page from the MOT manula along. The tester's an old mate anyway, but he freely admitted he had no idea this clause was in there. He showed me the on-line PDF of the manula all the MOT stations get sent, and that section 7.3 is about ten pages of text. The flow chart above doesn't even fit on one page, you have to scroll around it on the screen, and the little box-out clause about rotaries doesn't appear on the page, you have to actually look for it! No wonder so many MOT emissions tests are being done wrongly on FBs.
In fact, the last test that my FB had was done (wrongly) under the "pre-1986" clause of the flowchart, and we put the probe on it today just out of scientific curiosity. It passed anyway; 2.73% CO out of 4.5% and 335ppm of hydrocarbobdoodads out of 1200

unfcknblvbl

Re: MOT time...
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:28 pm
by TOOL
Lucky wrote:Just wanted to say thanks again to Ian and this excellent forum. Just had the MOT on the FB and took the page from the MOT manula along. The tester's an old mate anyway, but he freely admitted he had no idea this clause was in there. He showed me the on-line PDF of the manula all the MOT stations get sent, and that section 7.3 is about ten pages of text. The flow chart above doesn't even fit on one page, you have to scroll around it on the screen, and the little box-out clause about rotaries doesn't appear on the page, you have to actually look for it! No wonder so many MOT emissions tests are being done wrongly on FBs.
In fact, the last test that my FB had was done (wrongly) under the "pre-1986" clause of the flowchart, and we put the probe on it today just out of scientific curiosity. It passed anyway; 2.73% CO out of 4.5% and 335ppm of hydrocarbobdoodads out of 1200

unfcknblvbl

Yeah it's the HC reading that's the killer for me on the IDA.
Re: MOT time...
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:38 pm
by MelloYello
Any one got a decent copy of this document. Taking the 7 to a new tester, and am going through the same arguments - "its running too rich, it wont pass emissions"....
The link above no working.
Re: MOT time...
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:20 pm
by KiwiDave
Check your email dude.

Re: MOT time...
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:51 am
by Johnnyboy
I will need a copy as well soon - could you post one please?
Re: MOT time...
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:36 pm
by ian65
Johnnyboy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:51 am
I will need a copy as well soon - could you post one please?
Bloody hell

Hello John, how are you mate? Long time no see.
Re: MOT time...
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 2:15 pm
by MelloYello
KiwiDave wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:20 pm
Check your email dude.
Cheers Dave