polo internal mirror MOT

as long as its totally not there, not just sharp piece of plastic sticking out at the drivers head for when an accident happens the drivers head goes through the piece of plastic. Sure it will pass. How do you think vans pass without internal mirror? You can have an internal mirror and no side mirrors if you want.

You can have an internal mirror and no side mirrors

Um, no you can't.

Tim

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Quite right - though what you /do/ have to have depends on the age of the vehicle...

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Some of us have little trouble distinguishing between cars, vans and buses. I imagine even MOT examiners can do the same.

It probably won't be long before there's a GCSE in it, if you're keen.

Please explain how a van passes the MOT or even a coach or maybe a bus then. I can't wait to hear this - FACT only please, not what your mates in the pub say or what you think is correct.

The MOT is not interested in any sharp bits of plastic. It would pass or fail on whether the damaged mirror formed part of the obligatory set. The only 'required' mirror is the offside exterior mirror. For the type of subject vehicle you must have one other mirror - which can be nearside external or internal.

Goods vehicles and passenger vehicles are subject to different regulations. With regards to mirrors they are much the same though.

Only if the vehicle is pre August '78.

Vin.

Try this

Read the bit I quoted.... (left in below) You said that you can have an internal mirror and no side mirrors the FACT is, you can't, depending on age you have to have a drivers side mirror and if young enough a passenger one too.

This is also what I think is correct and if I asked them, what my mates in the pub would say....

Tim

Ahh, now mayber this is what klf is refering too, I didn't know that...... Ah well, life would be boring if we stopped learning.

Tim

Mind you, I aint ever seen a '78 Polo.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "klf" saying something like:

Read the post again. Ityf you're reading it arse for elbow. No great surprise there, then.

Tim Anderson ( snipped-for-privacy@zen.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

They certainly seem to have all disappeared, 'tis true.

No...

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I always thought calling one model the Derby was a mistake - reminds me of Darby and Joan and old folks' homes and so on.

I think there is one kicking around in my glovebox. Your welcome to it if you are not averse to a bit of fluff and it being half sucked.

Vin

well at a quick sweeping guess a lot of vans tend not to have rear windows so a rear view mirror would be useless. Buses are probably too long to make rear view mirror practical..

not FACT but more common sense... why would you not have to have one in a car ? "FACT only please, not what your mates in the pub say or what you think is correct"

Have a look at this link

Or this

Rear view mirrors:

The number and position of rear view mirrors depends on the type of vehicle and its date of first use:

Cars first used before 1st August 1978 need one mirror mounted on the offside, nearside or centre. Cars used on or after this date need two mirrors, one of which must be on the offside. All goods vehicles (including car derived vans) must have two mirrors one of which must be on the offside. It must be possible to adjust these mirrors to give a view to the rear.

Additional mirrors i.e those over and above the legal minimum above, are not testable.

Electrically operated mirrors are not required to work but must be adjustable (you can do this manually in most cases) to give a view to the rear.

Obligatory mirrors (see Additional mirrors above) which are missing, damaged or deteriorated so they seriously impair the view to rear or are insecure are reasons for failure.

From this

Maybe that's why the Mk2 was called the Classic?