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Fitted the longer torque arm and although the headlight is still a tad low it passed but the tester started having a moan about the fruity volume of the Laser exhaust and that they he shouldn't really have passed it because it doesn't comply with new noise guidlines etc.

Don't get me started on the amount of time all this took - 1 hour 45 minutes yesterday and a hour hanging around today. Apparently the new process works on a job card system linked real time to the DVLA. There are multiple bike & car MOTs taking place at this garage and the computer can't mulitask. The paperwork takes as long as the MOT to generate

I suppose with the MOT linked to the V5, tax, and insurance, the ANPL vans will start pulling over and crushing the old unroadworthy and uninsured death traps and publicly birch their drivers.

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I guess thats me F****D come MOT time!
I,ll have to use the old Jedi mind trick.
gus

Had mine mot'd last month using the new system, no problems other than a 45 minute wait before the tester can close off the test online, this is a guideline time advised by the ministry, they could do it in about 20 mins, but are scared to upset the powers that be! oh and they did'nt even start the motor, just checked the cans were stamped correctly.
The odd thing is that they checked the front and rear weight of the bike, then checked my weight , the results are tied in with the brake test.

Cheers
steve

I am so glad that there is no MOT for bikes in France.

You Guys have the choice of where to go. In N. Ireland there are only 15 testing centres all run by DVTA a Gov Agency!

All the latest high tech equipment and no messing around!

I'm amazed!! took a bike for a mot the other day,spent ten minutes chatting,he then wrote one out and i left!!!, told Mr Sheen the other day find youself a shop and get to know e'm,saves all this messing about booking bikes in,he's done the same turned up with open pipes etc never batted an eyelid.

I have the same thing happen to me with my bikes. just show up he asks me what parts i have added since last year and what gains came from them then he writes the mot out and i give him a few extra quid for his trouble and i ride my bikes away. just a brake check and visual check and thats it.i maintain them to the highest standard myself and he knows that i would not ride a death trap.

Harry Lime wrote:My honorary brother in law was here at the weekend and moaning because the MOT tester had failed his Buell for having none standard handlebars!

How did he know? Some kind of Buell geek?

He then said that if the standard bars were produced (off the bike), he'd issue the MOT.

The world gets wierder by the minute.

So - how can a car pass with a non-standard steering wheel???

He should have punched him

Al

winger wrote:I'm amazed!! took a bike for a mot the other day,spent ten minutes chatting,he then wrote one out and i left!!!, told Mr Sheen the other day find youself a shop and get to know e'm,saves all this messing about booking bikes in,he's done the same turned up with open pipes etc never batted an eyelid.

...mine had the nerve to suggest i get the horn fixed on my RC30 - just before he wrote the ticket out

Chris is right tho... you gotta know your local man if you can.

I took mine round a few weeks back. With the rather (ok, very) loud Twin Bros pipes on. Was told to get lost for a cuppa tea.
Very fortunately, they had complete set of R1100S pipes and cat round the back in the workshop which they were able to install, complete the entire MOT test and then reinstall the TBR pipes and issue my certificate.

And they managed it all in the 10 minutes it took to drink the tea. Good fellas.....

The handlebars thing depends on whether or not they allowed full lock to be achieved without fouling anything - such as clouting the tank.

The new computerised version of the MoT won't allow a ticket to be closed within a certain time of the test starting - something like 20 or 30 minutes. This they reckon is how long a test should take - so you spend the time with your 'local' man talking about what you've done, what works, the weather..... The same man has tested my last bike six times. In his words you can tell from the owner and the state of the bike how it is maintained and looked after.

A quick look over of safety-critical items is often done for their benefit as much as yours, but in most cases I think any potential fails are more likely to result in an advisory notice for you to rectify later, with the knowledge that you are the type of person that would do it.

I go to the same place to test my cars that my dad used for years when in the business. It 'helps' but if something is worthy of a failure it gets one; they don't just cast a blind eye. And that's quite how I like it, to be honest. I'd like to know that something needed doing and I don't have all the facilities to check a car from end to end, top to bottom. But for something fairly minor or easily rectified, I'd rather get an advisory and do it anyway. Actually, my car's due a test this week - hope it passes.

The MOT procedure at Chiswick Honda is like checking in for a long haul flight - albeit business class. Once the ticketing and paper work is complete there is the huge airport-duty-free-like showroom to explore which contains the following over two levels:

- a Nero coffee shop
- wall-to-wall 42" plasmas
- the entire Honda car and bike range on display
- Selection of outboard motors and dingys
- full range of riders' apparel and helmets
- lawn mowing equipment (pushed and ridden)
- Quads
- 300 used cars and about 50 used bikes.