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[carnegie14]

Sept 22, 2021 20:27:41 GMT 1 aylesburyjock said:

My personal feeling is get the bulb fixed and get it retested if their machine is now repaired. DVSA won't act on an allegation of wrong doing without evidence so I don't think you would achieve anything by reporting them. If you feel strongly enough, give it a go. Now I have to ask, what are you hoping for? Apart from the bulb, your car has no faults that would fail the MOT. The only thing I would say is if they retest it and it were to fail on emissions, your free retest is used up and after repairs, you would need a full MOT. That would be wrong, because an emissions problem should have been picked up on the original test, and would have been repaired before the retest. If this were to happen, I suggest the garage would be liable and owe you that test free of charge.

If I ever come to sell the car it’s got a fail mark for emissions not tested with no reason as to why, when in fact it was a broken machine. The bulb isn’t a problem.

[dwain]

Sept 23, 2021 10:28:45 GMT 1 carnegie14 said:

Sept 22, 2021 20:27:41 GMT 1 aylesburyjock said:

My personal feeling is get the bulb fixed and get it retested if their machine is now repaired. DVSA won't act on an allegation of wrong doing without evidence so I don't think you would achieve anything by reporting them. If you feel strongly enough, give it a go. Now I have to ask, what are you hoping for? Apart from the bulb, your car has no faults that would fail the MOT. The only thing I would say is if they retest it and it were to fail on emissions, your free retest is used up and after repairs, you would need a full MOT. That would be wrong, because an emissions problem should have been picked up on the original test, and would have been repaired before the retest. If this were to happen, I suggest the garage would be liable and owe you that test free of charge.

If I ever come to sell the car it’s got a fail mark for emissions not tested with no reason as to why, when in fact it was a broken machine. The bulb isn’t a problem.

Options are, don’t buy the car. If you don’t trust the seller, walk away.

In reality, there isn’t likely to be any long term effect of that being recorded in the history.

The MOT station have done it wrong, they should have abandoned, but it’s done now with very little that can be done about it. Buy the car and forget the history, or walk away.

[aylesburyjock]

All vehicles end up with faults requiring repair or replacement of parts. If you take the car, then when you come to sell it it will have a historic fail, which obviously must have been repaired for it to have subsequent MOTS. No impact on the condition of the vehicle at point of sale. The fact that there was no fault doesn't really make any difference. That may just be my outlook, but I'm really not seeing it as a problem so long as it doesn't cost you money now.