Hi,

did a search but can't find anything helpful...

how are those of you who have track cars as their dailys handling the new MOT rules?

most of all those of you who have ripped out your death trap airbags, fitted racing steering wheels or have bucket seats, modified seat runners or harness's fitted?

cheers guys

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1992 205 Rallye - S2 Rallye Engine

certainly helpful if you stack it at least lol, saves you answering the question of how your planning to get home

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1992 205 Rallye - S2 Rallye Engine

Read many threads about this and got my mate who is an MOT tester to look into. He contacted VOSA and they said basically rally cars, or cars with rollcages, harnesses etc would be exempt from the rules.

I may get him to contact them again and get them to send it out in writing though...

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

if you have cage fixed seats and harnesses, fire away and rip it all out, remove the ecu as well and the bulb.

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Bring on the Trumpets.

when its done one?

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Bring on the Trumpets.

ill wham part of a tyre wall into the front bumper before MOT that should fool them...

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1992 205 Rallye - S2 Rallye Engine

Dodgey mot

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Well I'm glad to hear you have so much space and money, that must be nice for you

Ah, another thread with the same old random speculation and opinion about the new MOT rules. I put mine through its MOT last month, and it passed legitimately, and here's how.

1 - Keep the original seat belts in as well as your harnesses. The harnesses then become non-testable, so aren't a problem.

2 - The airbag issue was changed at the last minute to just be an advisory not a fail, so isn't a problem. I've actually removed all trace of airbags, so they didn't even bother with that.

3 - Sun strips need to come off beforehand if they encroach on the wiper area, else you'll fail twice - once for the driver's side and again for the passenger's.

4 - I've removed ABS and rear compensator, and have a bias valve in the car. I explained this to the garage, they just adjusted the bias until the rear passed (i.e. set it up for road use) which is fine. As long as the entire ABS system has been fully and obviously removed, it's not testable.

5 - Removing rear seats isn't a problem, they just put it as a note on the MOT. It's been tested as a 2-seater, so if you put the back seats back in the MOT would be invalid.

6 - Only the windscreen is testable, so polycarb sides are rear are no problem.

7 - Bonnet just has to be secure and not able to come open, so bonnet catches aren't a problem (although I don't have them on mine)

8 - Boot opening isn't testable, so doesn't matter as long as it's secure

9 - Spare wheels aren't mandatory, so that's not a problem

10 - I have tape over my lights, they've added this as an advisory but not a fail

Job done. I suspect if you went somewhere like Kwik-Fit for an MOT they'd s**t themselves and come up with all kinds of reasons to fail it, but by the rules it should actually pass fine. Just because my car's got loads of stuff removed doesn't mean it's not roadworthy, and for all the b**ching, crying and panic that went on about the new rules they weren't actually that bad. Any garage with the slightest bit of common sense can tell the difference between a track car and a chavmobile, as long as they know that you'll be fine

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Oh yeah, because I heard the government put in a rule that says "oh, but if it looks like they're a trackday enthusiast let them off, no point taxing them further as I'm sure they've already spent more than enough".

It's more that the MOT test is a test of roadworthiness, and any track car should also be roadworthy else what the f**k are you doing getting in it?!

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Better with a transporter rather than trailer anyway jeffers lol

This is always going to fall down to up to the MOT tester at time of test, as some testers will be better than others, our tester is a rally driver an co driver who builds rally cars, so hes quite good lol, an other boy is realistic, plus my dads a tester aswell, but things like if the seat is fixed, it doesnt have to move but if its on orginal runners an f**ked then thats a fail, harness's are ok as long as there fixed properly an that nothing to worry about as such as long as your mot tester isint a bellend!

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2003 BMW M3 & 2009 L200 Raging Bull
& Audi Q5 S Line
AX stock rod & Saxo Stock rod
Sold the bike an charged rallye an bought a caravan, midlife crisis or what!

lol suppose you will have granddad rights and are allowed to tow a trailer or you done the test, what i like about transporter is its hassel free, although not as much room for spares an with l200 you could sit at 80 with cruise control on happy but transits not got the legs, also down side with transit is i have to use it when im not offshore if theres a break down, but think there has maybe been 3 customers cars ever on it lol

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In my garage just now

2003 BMW M3 & 2009 L200 Raging Bull
& Audi Q5 S Line
AX stock rod & Saxo Stock rod
Sold the bike an charged rallye an bought a caravan, midlife crisis or what!