Headlamp alignment

Yes but it's the VOSA MOT test rules. A local tester lost his cert for a year by being a good chap and adjusting them during the test for free.

Could be full fuel tank while the previous 3 times it was near empty. More junk in the boot.

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Really?

"Repairs must not be carried out during an MOT test; however, minor adjustments to the headlamp aim are acceptable"

Chris

Perhaps the driver's adjustment for headlamp aim was set lower on previous years?

The tester should not alter this setting unless it would result in a failure for low aim, in which case it should be set to the highest position:

Chris

Course do bear in mind that the "tester" is human and has a "tolerance" range too;!...

Not really with headlamp aim - it's checked on a beam setter. Assuming that is adjusted correctly.

It's possible the suspension has settled slightly, I suppose. But it's more likely the MOT place just upping their profits.

Yes, that place I go to in South Berkshire that you also know have adjusted my headlights for free during the test on two different cars.

Last time I went I'd missed a duff indicator bulb. He disappeared, walked out with a bulb and a screwdriver, and said "I'd suggest you change this while I sort out the certificate.."

Great chaps.

My place sometimes asks me to fit bulbs on other customers' cars :) Mind you I sometimes go there in one car and get given another to deliver or take away and fix and they bring mine back later and swap.

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Yet amazingly they are struggling for work.

Terry is still there (the older guy), but the other chap has left. The second bay is now only used part-time.

Chris

They're a bit out the way, I think that might be an issue. Best MOT station I've ever used. Really helpful, happy to take you under the ramp and explain what's wrong and why. I'd hate to see them go, though I suppose all places do in the end.

Their main customers are trade; a mix of indy repairers and small sales places. Perhaps some of these guys are going under in the recession?

Chris

En el artículo , Stephen H escribió:

There's a headlamp height adjustment switch, which you would have known about had you read the manual.

I mentioned in a different thread somewhere the fact that owners' manuals are rarely read. Thank you for corroborating that fact. It is informative to look in used cars' gloveboxes and to note how many owners' manuals are still shrink-wrapped. When I acquired my current car, I read the manual, and found lots of little details of operation that are not intuitive just by looking at the instrument panel. Such as the seat and mirror memory, as one example.

Have you seen the volumes that come with a Lexus? On the way back from buying an LS430 for a friend I glanced through the manuals: over a thousand pages for the car and its sat.nav. etc. and that is not multiple languages !! Gog knows how many pages there are for an LS600 hybrid.

It was needed though for some operations like pairing the phone, and how to use the reversing aid camera, etc.

Well, if you insist on turning your car (meant for getting you from A to B) into a mobile electronic office (where you sit to communicate to the world), then that goes with the territory! The BMW iDrive in its early versions was quite a beast, too, from what I have seen.