guest[b][user=2776]booyaford[/user] wrote: [/b][quote]good evening ladies and gents,
i wonder if any one could inform me if a corrosive hole under the rear driver side seat would be considered a mot fail,its not really a hole more rust, ive read the 30cm rule and it dosent seem to impose on this but iam no mechanic.
car in question is a peugeot 205 convertable and corrosion is about centre under the seat ant ideas thanks
booya?
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Hello booyaford, welcome to the forum.
In reply to your area for concern, the mot test criteria for corrosion related issues requires an mot tester to examine as far as reasonably possible all prescribed areas for excessive corrosion, or any panelling which does not feel rigid. Outside of a prescribed area corrosion related issues would be a pass and advise unless sharp edges or projections were likely to cause personnel injury, or adversley affect the steering and braking of the vehicle, so in that case would have to be pritty bad. (my wording).
So what is a prescribed area?
as you said, the 30cm rule. This rule cannot always be applied, it is down to the individual tester to make a subjective decision as to whether the particular area of corrosion is indeed within a prescribed area.
by example, like in your case, suppose you have a corrosion hole within the floor panel underside the vehicle, the tester is now under the vehicle looking at the corrosion, can the tester see the seat belt mounting point to the buckle stork, which on most modern vehicles is attached to the seat?
Can the tester see the seat mounting point, and could the tester use that instead of the seat belt mounting point in a corrosion related issue?
Can the tester see the parking brake mounting points?
Can the tester see the seat belt mounting point within the B post at some measured point up that post?
This is an example which is nothing to do with your case but was my conclusion of a vehicle i tested today, it was a Ford Escort.
The drivers side door step was excessively corroded within three seperate areas, the corroded areas had chalk marks on them indicating that a previous mot test had been carried out, the customer later confimed the car had just been into another station, which they had failed it?
Most testers on this forum will advise you that the seat belt mounting point on the Ford Escort can be readily seen on the inner sill area, a tape measure was used to measure the distance to the corrosion and it was established and proven by visual examination that the corrosion related issue was a “pass and advise”.
In your case.
It seems on the face of it that a measured point to a mounting of a start to the prescribed area would indeed be difficult to prove by your own submissions on your vehicle, which to my mind would suggest that a pass and advise would probably be the order of conclusion, but it is the testers decision to make where ever you choose to take it?
Hope this info helps
