Passed with Advisories

[Duncodin]

When I went back to collect the car after the test the testing guy was out to lunch so couldn't ask him what he meant by "integral body structure".

I'll go back soon for the tyres and ask him what he meant. In the meantime. If anyone has any ideas pls let me know. Ta.

But. It's a pass.

 

[t-tony]

I'll be interested to hear their explanation. I would ask to be shown on a lift so that you can take pictures.

Tony.

 

[Shelly]

Happy days
Glad your z passed its mot

 

[Brian James]

100% with Tony on this one - I had some advisories on my MG 2 years ago and were suspension related. I then worked on the car in order to clear these but could not identify what the tester had really meant. So went to the technical guys at MG clubs and they had no idea.Then contacted a well reputed dealer/breaker in MG circles and he also was clueless ! I the went back to th egarage and the tester had left the company!

So having checked all was OK, I presented the car,in due course, for its next MOT only to find that it passed with NO ADVISORIES!

 

[Ade33]

I'm looking to buy a Z3 at the moment and am absolutely astonished at the number of advisories that some of these cars have..I appreciate they are at the least 20 years old but come on... My Golf I have owned 12 years and yes it has had a few advisories along the way (tyres reaching near the end of their life, CV joint rubber split etc, ) but some of these cars literally have 10 or so!... I'm just wondering is it that if you take it to a QUIK FIT or other fast fit type of place are the testers straight out of exams an encouraged by their managers to list everything in order to tout for business? ..Its a serious question i'm genuinely intrigued...and in relation to your advisory mentioning the word corrosion..I dont even bother to look at the cars if they are for sale..so its a sales killer for me

 

[Oddly Godly]

I think advisories build up on some cars as they do low summer mileages and the owners don't want to spend much cash on a second fun car. Tyres, suspension, headlight misting, small areas of rust etc can go on for years on some cars before they get bad enough to fail. The trouble comes if they all fail at once on a car with a relatively low value.
Many owners do love their cars and keep them in as new condition. It's worth paying that little bit extra for a loved example. I always look at how clean the engine bay is as a sign as to how loved the car has been.

 

[Duncodin]

Some testers are just covering their backs because they simply don't know.

Take z3 sills. Just a bit of surface rust on a sill will often get an advisory because, in most cars, especially convertibles, the sills are an integral part of the structure.

Not every MOT tester will know that z3 sill are pretty much just cosmetic and don't play any real role in body structure.

So don't turn your back on a nice car just because there's some obscure reference to corrosion. If the corrosion was structural and couldn't be fixed with a wire brush and a bit of waxoyl/underseal then I'd hope any tester would fail it.

In fact. If I was looking for a 20+ year old car I'd be attracted to the ones with non-critical (ie advisory) surface corrosion. Because they're the ones that haven't been tarted up with glass fibre, filler and a slap of underseal.