Rally cars and MOTs

Rally cars and MOTs

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briSk

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14,291 posts

233 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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I got a bit sidetracked and started looking at various things on Motorsport Auctions...

...and because of the way my mind is wired up I started thinking.. how can an evo so young get through an MOT with no airbag..!?

So how? Is it because it's got no airbag light because it hasn't got any of the original dash bits left? If so why can't Bazza do that with his Corsa? Is it because they were somehow SVA'd originally? Same with the handbrakes.. how do they get a vertical hydraulic handbrake through when the drift-yo people get in trouble..?! is it just one of those things that they get through because they're ruddy expensive and the 'comunity' knows they aren't lashed up and so they magically get MOTs when a normal car wouldn't or is it because they're actually subject to different rules (somehow - again some sort of SVA/low volume thing)..



rallycross

13,248 posts

244 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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My mot tester writes modified for competition use in the advisory section maybe that is to cover himself ?

rallycross

13,248 posts

244 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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My mot tester writes modified for competition use in the advisory section maybe that is to cover himself ?

soad

33,403 posts

183 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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Take a MSA log-book along to an MOT...

Does the VOSA definition of a rally car means having white door number squares? hehe

Slidingpillar

761 posts

143 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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Pretty easy to build a hydraulic handbrake that passes MOTs. You just leave the original bits in, and make the connection via a clevis pin so that the car can use the normal handbrake on the road, and the hydraulic one for competition.

It is sometimes even easier, as one can sometimes arrange things so that if the hydraulics fail, the lever moves a bit further and pulls the mechanical bits.

briSk

Original Poster:

14,291 posts

233 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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Slidingpillar said:
Pretty easy to build a hydraulic handbrake that passes MOTs. You just leave the original bits in, and make the connection via a clevis pin so that the car can use the normal handbrake on the road, and the hydraulic one for competition.

It is sometimes even easier, as one can sometimes arrange things so that if the hydraulics fail, the lever moves a bit further and pulls the mechanical bits.
Okay - so that's the handbrake dealt with..

..what about the airbag..?

and there's probably other daft things too that aren't obvious to me..(and what about the other pointless MOT stuff aka emissions..)

it's an interesting point about the modified of rcomp. use and the msa log book..
but really??

justanother5tar

1,314 posts

132 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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Wasn't there a thread on here when the new MOT rules were introduced?

IIRC, I'm sure at some point someone said that MOT testers could use their discretion if the vehicle was obviously modified for track use etc?

SturdyHSV

10,216 posts

174 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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Google is your friend.

https://mattersoftesting.blog.gov.uk/when-is-a-mod...

http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/htdocs/m4i00000502.htm

5. Modified Vehicles Where a vehicle has been extensively modified or converted, certain Reasons for Rejection, such as for components ‘missing where fitted as standard’ should not be applied, for example:

· a car converted for rally use (i.e. rear seats removed and fitted with a roll cage and full harness seat belts etc.) may have been converted so as not to require a brake servo, power steering or airbags

· a car converted to a stretch limousine may no longer be fitted with curtain airbags or functional Electronic Stability Control.

briSk

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14,291 posts

233 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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SturdyHSV said:
Google is your friend.
smile smart alec smile

looks interesting I shall follow that up!

briSk

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14,291 posts

233 months

Friday 17th July 2015
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brilliant!
my mx5 was clearly a rally car then!
it had a steel half cage
number boxes without numbers
harneses
bucket seats

the only thing was nothing was 'in date'..