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just wondering if anyone else has had trouble getting an mot on their turbo mini?
i put mine in today and aside from some silly little bits, the tester decided he wouldnt pass it untill i showed him my log book with the engine number and the fact its a turbo stated on it!!? anyone else had these problems?
i think the problem is theres no engine number on the engine, its an old 1380 which was decked to match the omega's that were in it and the engine number was lost years ago. gonna have to put the number from the 1275 that its just replaced on it, which is fair enough, and the log book does state its a 1275 with the old turbo engine number on it, but i never bothered saying it was a turbo on it so am i gonna be stuck waiting 2 weeks for the log book to be changed or is he just getting a bit off track, and just putting the engine number on should do?

steve.

p.s im not trying to dodge insurance etc etc by not stating its a turbo on the log book, its all insured as a turbo etc, but i just never saw anywhere on the changes to vehicle part to add the word "turbo" so it never got put on

doh! why did i start messing with it!

Take him your insurance form just to shut him up and tell him to stop being a nob.

He clearly doesn't want your business, so don't go back there...

I don't see why the V5 should have 'Turbo' written on it.

If you fitted a 45 weber you wouldn't put that on the V5 and that's a completly different induction system.

Is it the MOT testers job to check the V5? not as far as I know (but I've never read the MOT guide lines).

It maybe to do with this new MOT recording system. but I still can't see where on the failure sheet it says 'has turbo fitted to car which wasn't turbo originally' .

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

SImple solution...,.


Ask him to show you where in the MOT Tester MAnual (thats avaible for anyone to see) is the section asking for that information.

If he can't/won't remind him that you can cause him a world of pain by taking with to the Department of Transport!

That normally works with shithead testers

Alex

AlexF

In actual fact, the guy is talking out of his fucking arse.

The DVLA, will UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE allow you to modify the vehicle details on your logbook.

I looked into this, as I have recently converted a diesel 306 into a turbo diesel 306. Phoned up to enquire if I could re-register it as a turbo diesel 306, and thus avoid hassle come insurance time, as at the moment it is classed as a modified vehicle. Answer came back basically no chance, unless I could get Peugeot UK to sign off that it was to identical spec of a genuine turbo diesel car, and that all the parts used were BRAND new. Of course neither of these were going to happen.
Took it for MOT and it flew through no problems.

As an aside, if your tester were correct, everybody and their dog would have been getting old 3 door Sierras and changing the logbook to "Cosworth" or changing Mk1 Minis to "Cooper S" etc etc etc - you get my drift.

Your testers being a fucking idiot, I'd personally phone the local DoT office and get them to sort it out, as you've already forked out for the test! And don't go back there again!

do you need a speedo for the mot?

I think you need one, but I don't think there is any way they can test it, so whether is has to work is a different matter....!

lol cheers people, i'll sort him out then. to be honest he's normaly fine with anything that i take, even a bit lax in some cases so its maybe a case of he's had his fingers bitten and dosn't want it to happen again or whatever. i dont actualy deal with the tester, the car goes to my local garage and he takes it off for mot and fixes anything little for it. (family friend sort of thing) so i'll sort it with him.
cheers
steve.

p.s my car's speedo dosnt work and he never pulled that!

doh! why did i start messing with it!

The speedo isnt tested on mtorbike (you dont need one) but now with computer mot's you need to put a milage in or it wont work.
I supose 0 miles would do.
ps the turbo log book thing is crap you just test the vehicle as it is presented.

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i think its only the milage part of the speedo which is needed for mot, so yes id say you do need a speedo.

id say that mot man is being a to$$er personally or he may simply be misunderstanding the new rules if he has just changed to the new computerised system.

im a mechanic but the garage i work at doesnt do mots so i have to take them to another branch. theyve just gone computerised and its a pain. they search on the comp for your car with reg and chassis no, it took 3 attempts to find mine as it didnt list austins in the manual select screens. then when it did find it ,ive not notified dvla of changes ,so it showed up as a 998 auto doh.

so youre mot man may just be trying to cover his back with the ministry. he defo doesnt need to see the v5 but perhaps wanted proof of the engine number as he would need to put it in the comp which is linked direct to the ministry,

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

ah right yeah that would make sence about the engine number, ive sorted that now anyway so we'll have to see what he says this time. thats a good point actualy mines still listed as an auto! wonder what he'll say about that!
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

right this is getting to be a real ball ache! been to see my mate at the garrage this morning and he agrees with what you were all saying about changes to the v5, so we rang up the tester and basicaly he's saying he wont test it as what it is because when he punches up the cars details in the computer it comes up as a mini clubman auto, not what it actualy is, and he's afraid if he does test it and i crash etc it will come back to him becasue he's tested it as something its not.
he basicaly said if i cant change the log book i'll have to take it through an sva test instead.
all of which is sounding more and more bollocks!
i mean whats to stop me putting the 998 auto lump in at mot time and then slapping the turbo lump in 2 days later!? its till in during the period of last mot!!? and ive checked the requirements of an sva test and my car gets enough points to not need one. but in a strange twist i rang up the dvla myself and they said if you underline the changes in the log book we'll change it for you so its right!!?
its doing my fking head in now, think he must be getting the wrong end of the stick with this new computerised mot lark. im quite suprised he hasnt moaned about the flip front, and the 4 point harnesses, and he actualy did moan about it all being solid mounted but said he couldnt fail it on it! bah we'll see what the log book comes bacl like, but ive got a feeling it'll say the same as when it went.
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!

why dont you just take it to another mot station. all you have to do on your v5 is change the cc and engine number and gearbox thing. will take a while to get your v5 back tho a couple of weeks prob.

try and find an mot station not computerised yet there is a few that arnt yet.

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

Yep, definately. Thats the way to go about it, there are a few that haven't got the computers just yet.

Makes me think I will make sure my own car all ties up engine number etc wise with what the logbook says though!

yeah i think thats going to be the plan, i notced an old garrage up near my workshop that does mot's aparently, he seems to do a lot with old vw's and ive seen a mini or two there to so might be worth giving them a try. but i think the most anoying thing is the bloke who wouldn't pass it, has a turbo mini project sat in the back of his garrage half finished!!
nevermind, if anything happens with the log book issue i'll update it for you all.
steve.

doh! why did i start messing with it!