MOT Question...

[Crispywombat]

Hi,

I own a three door disco and I don't want any rear seats, need the space to use as a van, will it fail the MOT if I only have front seats if it was orignally a 7 seater?

Cheers,

Rob

[mudplugger01]

it wont fail  mate  no requirement to have all seats fitted ..

[Crispywombat]

Good news! One less thing to worry about atleast!

[william127]

read in lrm a couple of years ago about a bloke whos disco failed its mot on the rear seatbelt mounts, he needed a van as well so took the seats out, ply lined it, had it retested, 2 birds with 1 stone :D

[Saffy]

It will be tested for the number of seats you have and that is recorded on the database, if you decided to put seat back in a week later then your MOT is invalid. My Defender has gone from 12 seater to 6 seater to 3 seater to Driver + 1, each time number of seats was entered on the computer during MOT.

[mudplugger01]

its not a requirement to put the number of seats when logging them on ,the option is there but as i said its a option .... would prolly note it on a vt32 that they wasnt fitted  but again thats only a advisory sheet.

[Jay_disco]

its not actually the seats that are tested. its actually the seat belts. if you remove the seats, then you should remove the seatbelts to those seats.(rear only obviously) iv done this with every modded motor iv had.and that info came from a mot tester. he told me they can only test what is there. no seats but seatbelts means you can carry passengers,as they are still fitted but you fall in the fail category because there isnt a seat there. i did this for 3 years running with one motor. and another 3 years after that with a different motor. never had a problem after the tester told me.  :)

[lurch_917]

its not actually the seats that are tested. its actually the seat belts. if you remove the seats, then you should remove the seatbelts to those seats.(rear only obviously) iv done this with every modded motor iv had.and that info came from a mot tester. he told me they can only test what is there. no seats but seatbelts means you can carry passengers,as they are still fitted but you fall in the fail category because there isnt a seat there. i did this for 3 years running with one motor. and another 3 years after that with a different motor. never had a problem after the tester told me.  :)

im not trying to put the cat among the pigions here but they do test the seats to make shure there securly fitted . as you dont want your back passangers + seats flying foward , but as said if not fitted they cant check them .

[Saffy]

[im not trying to put the cat among the pigions here

:shock: too late

[Crispywombat]

While we're on the subject of MOT's what's the rule with exhausts? Mines a side exit and I read somewhere this an
MOT failure... :-k

[mass199]

Side exit exhaust will pass mine did.

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

While we're on the subject of MOT's what's the rule with exhausts? Mines a side exit and I read somewhere this an
MOT failure... :-k

My de-catted 300Tdi with the centre box swapped for straight pipe and the rear box lost in favour of a side exit passed the MOT without trouble last Friday.

 :dance: :dance:

Nice 'n' rorty.