Lenient MOT centre needed

[YoungRestorer]

Got a Jag that is safe to drive, just has a couple of suspension components a bit worn, and I'm looking to offload it. Unfortunately the MOT has crept up on me and I have found that it expires tomorrow! Can anyone recommend a "nice" MOT centre based in South West London that I could take my car to?

Cheers in advance

[supertouring]

LOL I am not sure anyone will volunteer on an open forum.

[jhfozzy]

My advice would be to take it in to your usual one, many times I've had some worn bush or rubber that I was worried sick about fly through it's MOT with the tester going "that's fine".

[YoungRestorer]

I will give them a call and see what they can do for me. The vehicle check I ordered at a specialist said that the car was perfectly safe, and the only way it would fail was through the discretion of the MOT tester. My normal garage like to do things above and beyond, and so it would probably fail at his discretion. Another MOT tester, I was assured, would view it completely differently, hence my asking.

To be clear: it's not unsafe. It just depends on exactly how picky the MOT guy is going to be about the suspension

[jhfozzy]

YoungRestorer said:

I will give them a call and see what they can do for me. The vehicle check I ordered at a specialist said that the car was perfectly safe, and the only way it would fail was through the discretion of the MOT tester. My normal garage like to do things above and beyond, and so it would probably fail at his discretion. Another MOT tester, I was assured, would view it completely differently, hence my asking.

To be clear: it's not unsafe. It just depends on exactly how picky the MOT guy is going to be about the suspension

If it's not unsafe then it should just be an advisory. I had a loud clunk on my Evo VI that was there for about three years and my MOT tester knew about it. He even tried his hardest to find it on his vibration rig but couldn't. His words were "I can't fail it because what would I put on the failure sheet, "Loud clunk from somewhere"?"