Car failed mot today :(
 

1.Twisted brakepipe
2.Bulbs in side repeaters not orange (forgot to change when i put clear on)
3.wipers hitting my new sunstrip

Not bad for a 7 year old ;) it took half an hour to sort brake line and bulbs (free) and he let me off the wipers saying "you gonna buy some smaller ones later" :p

My car passed its MOT with clear side bulbs. Do yours not flash orange??

No m8,when i changed to crystal side repeaters i didn't get the orange or silvertec bulbs so they just flashed white lol

So, you passed because you were going to buy smaller wipers that wipe less of the screen and therefore give worse visibility? :confused:

Don't you just love bureaucracy? :D

So if your wipers touch a sunstrip then it fails? Thats a very small strip to be legal! :(

Comper100

Tell me about it m8,the wipers i have on the car are 2 weeks old and work perfectly well with strip on but they told me to put smaller wipers on so as to not interfere? i never heard anything so daft lol

It is bonkers - they deem the sun strip to be too big if it intrudes on the driver's field of view, which is defined to be the area which is swept by the wipers. So, smaller wipers = sun strip not too big. D'uh... :rolleyes:

Just take the sunstrip off m8. Would rather have bigger wiper blades for when it rains. Buy yourself some nice shades for when the sun comes out!

Dont need to m8 i got the mot pass cert in front of me,he took my word for it that i would swap the wipers ;)

Lucky i know a "Good" Mot'er :D

Comper100

I'm almost sure that a car cannot fail for wipers hitting a sunstrip (I'm an mot tester and have never heard of anything so daft). He probably let you go so you wouldn't report him to the ministry and getting him ridiculed.

Craig

Here's a tip for sunstrip owners - when MOT time comes along, replace the wiper blade ( complete ) with blades from a ford KA.

Works a treat, still wipes windscreen but doesn't touch sunstrip.

That's my 2p worth.

Skoosh.

going by the book, the wipers can go upto 10mm on to the sunstrip and pass.

stevie