GolfGTIforum.co.uk
General => The garage => Topic started by: i-espedair on 13 December 2003, 15:43
-
Ok so just got me clutch sorted, everything else is good, take car for MOT and the bloke comes out and says there is no point as it will fail on the back box!!! Ahhhh!
I've got a custom stainless system with a Magnex back box. I still got the cat in there but the bloke rekons it will fail coz of the noise is uncharacteristic of a Golf!
My car is not as loud as a Scooby but because they have standard loud exhausts its ok!
What?
The Geezer said i should take my back box off and fit a standard one for the MOT. But i can't do this as the Magnex is welded on and the system is a much larger bore than standard anyway!
I told the geezer it passed fine last time but he said its all coz of new legislation.
What the feck do i do? Can't cut 400 quids worth of exhaust off!
Can anyone on ere do an MOT for me or know where i can go!? Sussex, Surrey area!
Thanx
-
Sounds like bollox to me. Try another garage.
-
I am a MOT tester (well was up 'till last year when I changed my job) and as far as I am aware the reasons for rejection for a exhaust were: insecure, fouling body or axle etc, incomplete or leaking. Don't recal any mention of " noise is uncharacteristic of a Golf", or any other car.
I think that the man is talking bollo*?$.
Steve.
Double post :two for the price of one ;)
-
Looks like he's quoting item 2b:-
http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_710.htm
Open to interpretation isn't it.........what one person would consider reasonable, another may not :-\
-
I stand corrected ::). How loud is your exhaust?I would try to find a more sympathetic mot tester.
Steve.
-
If it passed last year then it should pass again. There are no new regulations i know about. This geezer is talking out of his starfish :D
-
Yeah i think he's takin the piss coz he drives round in a sh!tty Orion 1.4. Think he looked at me thought boy racer and rattled out some spiel. ::)
There is nothing boy racer about my car. Pure VW enthusiast! ;D
Exhaust is loud. Magnex loud. But certainly no louder than a TVR or a Scooby. It is a quality sound too. Very low, bassy.
I think i have found another garage. Will let you guys see what i discover.
-
Good luck! :o
-
All is good, passed no probs! ;D
Guy that owns the garage had a slightly modded mk3 VR6 sitting out front, he is well in to his VW's and we spent ages talking golfs. Think i had passed from then on, bit of the old secret hand shake! ;)
I told him about the other garage and he said "what a load of bo!!ox" and complemented me on having a lovely car. We both agreed the other geezer had abit of the green eyed monster going on! Then he went on to tell me about how he co owns the golf restoration specialist up the road and his VR6 lost in a flat out race against one of there Mk1's. Anyway he went as far as to offering me a discount at the restoration place on any bodywork i may need in the future and when i said i was thinking about a re trim of the interior he offed me a great deal! Another good garage to add to the list. ;D
Just goes to show at christmas some things do work out well. My car is running better than ever at the moment! But still my work is not done, new brakes - disks and pads - all round in the early new year then some interior fun in the spring! Thats the plan! :)
-
Nice one
ho ho ho
:D
-
I know on motorbikes you have to have "not for road use" stamped on then when they wont pass the MOT.
Doesn't a sports exhaust have to pass a TUV test to be able to be sold?
-
I don't care now. Me and Lolita are free to tear up the british roads together for another year! ;D
Moral of the story is don't go to a moron to MOT your car, he will only talk bo!!ox at you!
I'm gonna take my pass cert down there and wave it in front of his little face. :P
-
And call him a few names... :D