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[benbrunt]

you can also take it for a proper mot at a place with no axe to grind, but you can be absolutely certain the car is in proper condition to be on the road!! this place is believe it or not......................................................................................................................

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your local police  force workshop!!!!! you have to book it and there is a chance that you wont be allowed to drive it out if they consider the fault bad enough that the car cannot be driven, but it is the most stringent MOT you will ever have the pleasure of failing/passing!!!!  

I work for GMP and won't be taking mine anywhere near the police workshops, in fact I'd rather let Gayle from Corrie work on my car

[hotel21]

Well it is government run only so no axe to grind as it were. ...... snip ...... There is a clever "platform" that you drive the cars wheels onto and in turn it forces the individual wheel sideways and forwards/backwards to presumably show up knackered bushes. It is wierd inside the car while it does that a side at a time.
 

Sounds very similar to the LGV Testing Stations operated by VOSA where the commercials and buses get taken in the UK.  I know them as 'shaker plates'.  

Again, no axe to grind as they do not do repairs.  

[bobbertbear]

you work for gmp,thats where my mv6 came from

[bobbertbear]

but 1 good thing,my tipper passed its annual test today,mind you its only its first one

[Marie]

you can also take it for a proper mot at a place with no axe to grind, but you can be absolutely certain the car is in proper condition to be on the road!! this place is believe it or not......................................................................................................................

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your local police  force workshop!!!!! you have to book it and there is a chance that you wont be allowed to drive it out if they consider the fault bad enough that the car cannot be driven, but it is the most stringent MOT you will ever have the pleasure of failing/passing!!!!  

I work for GMP and won't be taking mine anywhere near the police workshops, in fact I'd rather let Gayle from Corrie work on my car

how come is there something we should know?


congrats on the pass!

[Kevin Wood]

Well it is government run only so no axe to grind as it were. ...... snip ...... There is a clever "platform" that you drive the cars wheels onto and in turn it forces the individual wheel sideways and forwards/backwards to presumably show up knackered bushes. It is wierd inside the car while it does that a side at a time.
 

Sounds very similar to the LGV Testing Stations operated by VOSA where the commercials and buses get taken in the UK.  I know them as 'shaker plates'.  

Again, no axe to grind as they do not do repairs.  

I was thinking it sounds very similar to an SVA test which is done at the same VOSA stations as the goods vehicles. Seem to turn the gods vehicles round like they're on a production line, much quicker than a garage does a car MOT.

And with the price of car MOTs getting a bit silly these days, IMHO (can't blame the garages when it's 45 mins to an hour labour) I wish they did MOTs on the same basis.

Kevin