16 advisories on my MOT- Details inside.

Dabbles said:
Is there a limit to the number of advisories a car can have in an MOT before it becomes a fail?
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no

they are advisories only. They just advise of stuff that is fine now, but might be a problem in a year or two's time.

They can't fail you this year because in 2 years time there will be lots wrong.
 
Dabbles said:
Is there a limit to the number of advisories a car can have in an MOT before it becomes a fail?
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Depends on how much paper has been loaded into the printer ;)

You can have as many advisories as is deemed necessary, there is no threshold at which this becomes a fail.
 
Dogbreath said:
Depends on how much paper has been loaded into the printer ;)

You can have as many advisories as is deemed necessary, there is no threshold at which this becomes a fail.
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I had a Sierra that passed an MOT but had 47 advisories - mostly corrosion related.

It got rebuilt into a Westfield shortly after :-)
 
haha advisories are just for testers that are bored and want to pad out the test, well in the op's case anyway thats whats happened.. I've done thousands of tests and I don't think i've ever put as many as 10 in a test ever.
 
realscot said:
haha advisories are just for testers that are bored and want to pad out the test, well in the op's case anyway thats whats happened.. I've done thousands of tests and I don't think i've ever put as many as 10 in a test ever.
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Do you know if they propose to change the airbag light being on to a failure in 2012 ?
 
jon.bda said:
They do...
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Indeed, well they don't really propose it, its being handed down from above:

Britain has been testing vehicles under the MOT scheme for 50 years now. Last year, the European Directive covering the MOT test was updated and revised by a modern version called 2009/40/EC. This was then updated by 2010/48/EU, which was ratified on 5 July this year. The new Directive keeps the EU minimum 4-2-2 test frequency but adds a number of new elements to the British MOT test. The Directive anticipates all test changes being in place by 1 January 2012, and a common European approach to test certificates in place by 1 January 2014.
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So new MOT rules in 2012 and MOT replaced by some standard Eurotest in 2014, both of which will most likely take longer and cost more :(
 
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