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Oh dear, just back from the MOT place, I just had to tell someone I'm quite upset:

I got failed on my nearside headlamp aim being slightly too high and no advisories.

I had the headlights in pieces back in the summer and bent the metal shield what makes the headlamp pattern (projectors) I put in back straight again and thought I'd got it spot-on using my garage door-o-meter but sadly I had failed. There is therefore a slight possibility that I may have been dazzling other road users from time to time for which I do apologise openly on here.

The MOT operative was inconvenienced by two 1/8th turns of the adjuster taking approximately 21 seconds at no charge to myself....now that's service for you.

Bet it took longer than 21 seconds to say what it "failed" on....

I had the same experience a few years ago, but with the nearside beam being too low, the cheeky ********** wanted to charge me £12.50 to adjust 'both' of them, even though there was nothing wrong with the offside one's aim.

Welly wrote:There is therefore a slight possibility that I may have been dazzling other road users from time to time for which I do apologise openly on here.

Oooooh, you been a bad, bad puddy tat Unlike the buggers here who must realise their lights are up too high or pointing all over the place and just don't give a toss, or all those twats who fit over-powered bulbs in some kind of power-crazed moron-fest

So, it actually passed after a bit of twiddling? I hope so anyway as that's what they do here (every year with the D8, up a lttile bit, then down a little bit ) That wasn't Franks experience though, the buggers sent him away to fix it and then he had to pay for a re-test

steve_earwig wrote: So, it actually passed after a bit of twiddling?

Yes, strangely they went to the trouble of printing out a "refusal certificate" and then a minty-fresh Pass Cert with nothing in the advisory section (the way I want it). Apparently I'm quite free to dispose of the refusal doc at my leisure but VOSA insist on the paperwork being straight (and why not).

They obviously have a too high pass rate so they are getting their percentages more inline by issuing a fail for the headlight.

That actually sounds like it could be true

jasper5 wrote:They obviously have a too high pass rate so they are getting their percentages more inline by issuing a fail for the headlight.

You mean the Garage? or VOSA in general? the Garage has only been doing MOT's for about 3 months it's a new venture sort of thing for them (other than servicing etc) the MOT was £45.00 but doesn't it take about 40 mins? that's crap money to make if you ask me; especially when you've got to rent the special MOT ramp which is f*cking expensive.

Welly wrote:The MOT was £45.00 but doesn't it take about 40 mins? that's crap money to make if you ask me; especially when you've got to rent the special MOT ramp which is f*cking expensive.

But if they do 8 cars a day, it adds up....

I'm sure VOSA will appreciate the pedantry.

We had a little tradition where mine would fail every year on a single bulb, and I think this was to keep the garage's failure rate up. I don't think they every charged me for a bulb. The best fail was "side repeater not orange enough" (some of the silvering had come off the bulb).

Been to my mot garage with a Honda Jazz this morning, "failed" on a wiper blade split and n/s headlight aim too high.

I bought a wiper blade from them and fitted it and let Steve adjust the headlight for me.

Steve reckoned the writing out of a fail for the headlight aim was to keep the paperwork in order as the lack of headlight aim failures would show up in VOSA checks and they might ask, why?

rwb wrote:The best fail was "side repeater not orange enough".

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