My Fiesta I bought in August is due for its MOT test tomorrow morning.
On Friday as I was checking my tyres I discovered the back driver side tyre was 8 psi? Then I saw there was nail stuck in there so had to change it along with the other one as it was near legal tread limit. £100 of money I didn't want to part with down the drain.
As they check the windscreen and washer fluid levels I'm concerned they could fail me on the nozzles not cleanly dispensing fluid, you have to pull the switch towards you as you push the button in on the right stalk for it to dispense. Its either the pump dispenser or some other mechanism. If it does dispense (and it does if you pull the button inwards) but the tester doesn't know this they might fail it?
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The windscreen washer jets will (or should, at least) work on the wiper stalk, not the indicator stalk... and presumably the MOT tester will know this.
So glad mine is now July at a time and place where I can go and sit by the village pond and feed the ducks and pick wild hedgerow flowers on my saunter back to the MOT station after the hour is up...
So just to repeat the right stalk on the wheel has a button you push in to operate the front set of washers. If you press it in and sort of wiggle it and pull it towards you it does work. Pulling the stalk back will operate the back washers. So I'm only hoping it doesn't fail if the tester doesn't know you have to wriggle it.
I *never* compromise on tyres and don't understand why anyone would. 4 relatively small patches of rubber are all that keep you (a) on the road, (b) able to travel in more or less the direction you want, (c) able to stop effectively when necessary, (d) alive.
No idea about the washer nozzles though ...
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I had to replace all 4 tires on my car 2 weeks before Xmas (which was financially inconvenient) but i was bloody glad of the extra grip when the snow hit a week later .
Mine has a small collection of advisories, two of which have appeared annually for the last six years.
It’s due again in two months. I’m familiarising myself with the Autotrader website, as I’m not sure any amount of praying is magically going to replace both front trailing arms, the flywheel (possibly clutch), the auxiliary belt and tensioner along with (I suspect) the power steering pump, the rear hatch seal, and whatever’s making that latest mysterious rattle.
I've always had real bad luck with cars and repairs, the last 2 I had started to become a regular occurrence fixing them so much my neighbours starting taking the piss how often the mechanic was round.
Congrats on the pass. It could have been worse, if your MOT is after the 20th May https://www.arnoldclark.com/newsroom/2165-the-mot-test-is-changing-here-s-what-you-need-to-know
Shit that looks so confusing but its probably due to the fact I've grown used to a certain way of testing.