De-catting and new MOT rules

[Mr Whippy]

Well this is the thing.

There is some vagueness in the correlation of test criteria and rejection reasons.

I believe they are intended to line up if you read them. However, I can easily see how someone could 'say' they were not meant to and apply them willy nilly.


I had a quick look for a contradictory example, but stopped to get on with other stuff. I'm pretty sure if you use the logic of using any rejection reason irrespective of the test criteria you could fail a car for almost anything.


So the question really is, do the test criteria/rejection reasons correlate. They would appear to in ALL sections. However, if your tester follows that logic or not is another matter.

I'm sure there is a page on how to use those guidelines, I'll look later.


But for now it is as it was before with the old rules. Technically it was ok, but if you had a pain in the arse MOT tester they could twist the rules to fit their desire to fail the car on a missing cat (missing part of exhaust criteria, despite it meaning literal part missing and an incomplete system, not a part missing but otherwise replaced to form a complete system)


New rules, new interpretations

Dave