Broken air conditioning - MOT failure?

[Five_Star]

The air conditioning is broken in our mk2.5 Ford Focus, is this now an MOT failure with the updated rules?

I've failed to find the latest official test guidelines on the gov uk site.

It's been re-gassed (at an air conditioning specialist) and was cold for the rest of that day but just ambient after that so obviously needs more looking at which I haven't had time to do.

 

[teenwolf]

no its not a failure

 

[ShakenNstirred]

no its not an MOT fail

 

[Howard]

Not until the air quality and comfort of a car's occupants becomes an MOT issue.

 

[ndaar]

LOL I think if air con ever becomes an MOT issue then everyone must have nicer cars

 

[Five_Star]

Wasn't sure if it came under the new rules for "if its fitted it must work"

Thanks

 

[Dogbreath]

Wasn't sure if it came under the new rules for "if its fitted it must work"

That has never been a universally applied rule for the MOT, either now or in the past. It only applies to certain items such as lights, where if they are not fitted they can not be tested so you can get a "daytime" MOT with no lights fitted.

 

[Orionaut]

Not until the air quality and comfort of a car's occupants becomes an MOT issue.

Weeelll!

Stretching the point a bit....!

I have an old Jag (Probably due to go to the great scrap yard in the sky TBH, sadly)

Neither the electric windows nor the air con works. (And as is common on old jags the body work is too tatty/rotten to be worth fixing despite only being 15 years old )

Since the climate control is designed with AC as an integral component the non-ac cold ventilation is actually rather poor.

To the extent that the vehicle is basically undriveable on sunny days! (Even in the winter!)

I could certainly entertain an argument that this represented a potential safety issue! :-/

 

[Clarkey]

Since the climate control is designed with AC as an integral component the non-ac cold ventilation is actually rather poor.

To the extent that the vehicle is basically undriveable on sunny days! (Even in the winter!)

I could certainly entertain an argument that this represented a potential safety issue! :-/

All cars without AC are like this though, whether it had it to begin with or not

 

[energy]

All cars without AC are like this though, whether it had it to begin with or not

But this one's windows don't open either

 

[pepsilol]

It's been re-gassed (at an air conditioning specialist) and was cold for the rest of that day but just ambient after that

Lmao, it didn't even last a day?

Go get your money back, it would have been clear with a nitrogen pressure test.