THE CORROSION APPEALS ARE STEERING/BRAKING/SUSPENSION/BELT ANCHORS AND THE PROSCRIBED AREAS FOR THE ABOVE ONLY.theres no exhaust fail for corrosion/deteriorated anymore.no the exhaust fail for minor leak isnt code for its buggered but it can be.i have advised(for instance)minor blows that were essentially the same when i tested em the following year.conversely i have advised some that parted company a couple of weeks later.they dont come with a calender expiry date,you can only warn the owner at the time that theres a problem.its then for him to get it repaired/inspected whatever as the test is a visual inspection only and digging away at it could result in a pissed off punter with a noisy exhaust that he didnt have when he first rocked up and it WILL be YOUR fault.same with the cracked tyres,they can be bad or could last perfectly well for another year or two,you can only warn that they appear deteriorated.while its perfectly possible it was a poor test(or indeed poorly advised perhaps) the facts stated by the original poster in my own opinion make any sort of successful appeal unlikely as it seems to have met minimum rqrmnts.the pre allocated advisories that i alluded to on the system are limited but are also the only ones used by some testers.i use manual advises for precisely this sort of situation but in some cases the ministry are less than keen for you to do so and its not actually a rqrmnt to advise anything to begin with.
