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Hi folks, moved up to the midlands and just failed my first MOT after

14 years down in dorset with a garage that "understands" my wagon. 109 station wagon series III.

  1. Had rear seats (and seatbelts) many years ago. Have since removed rear seats and the seatbelt catch stalks to make use of the load space, I never got around to removing the anchors and inerta reels etc since they didn't get in the way of the load space. As far as the MOT is concerned are these non-functioning seatbelts - or should they not bother looking at them since there is nowhere for anyone to sit and use the belt?

Probably end up just removing the reels and anchors totally and hope I don't lose them for when I get the seats back in again.

  1. mechanic could find nothing wrong with my steering and suspension - everything as tight as they should be. However, when he drove the wagon to the MOT station, he hit a drain and the steering went into that violent oscillation - he panicked and said he had to brake hard to stop it. Now I have driven the thing for 14 years and know that you can drive out of it - (I also know to avoid drain covers).

My re-test is next week and I've been asked to sort it. Erm.. how? everything was tight etc.

I know there are after-market steering dampers to deal with exactly this well known characteristic, but it has never bothered me.

Anyone else had this problem with MOT failure prior to the pit inspection, and is this wobble as well known as I believe?

Cheers Andy

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Andy
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Andy,

Can't answer Q1 .. but there'll be someone along soon who can. There always is.

As far as Q2 goes. They can only fail it for problems that happen during the test - not on the way there or on the way back. Tell the mechanic to avoid drain covers or come up with a definite cause which would result in a test failure. It's a well known "feature" of Series vehicles :-)

HTH

Reply to
SteveG

the tester is obviously a wanker take it somewhere else!

Reply to
Shayne

In article , Andy writes

I had the same problem.

At the time of the last test I had belts but no rear seats & it failed on this (technically belts missing, as the bottom part wasn't clipped into to the floor anchors). It also blew a brake line on test (!) so the belts I think were something like, "Right! Now it's made that mess all over the floor, let's see what else...".

Anyway, when it was re-tested, the seats still weren't in place, but my Landy specialist 'discussed' it with the MOT place (they always use the same chap), and the belts then weren't an issue.

They can't make an issue of belts per se, as it's logically no different to carrying them in a cardboard box.

Regards,

Simonm.

Reply to
SpamTrapSeeSig

Seconded, it reminds me of the local garage I had fail my Transit for too much play in the front wheel bearings, not knowing that Ford say you should adust for 12 thou play (from memory) and I had checked it with a dial gauge!. Take it to someone who knows his own anatomy. Greg

Reply to
Greg

If you have no rear seats then you do not need seat belts

Check your swivel housing preloads . If they are too loose then you will get the wobble you described. If there is no up and down movement in the "kingpins" then re shimming the bearings will prob do.

Reply to
Marc Draper

If you are in a rush and want an MOT pass just take a couple of shims out of either side.. Doesnt take long. Ive done swivel preloads by guesstimation a couple of times and never had any problems.

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