Insurer requires 'engineers report' to cover cat d cooper s

[PabloLFC]

Hi there, my current insurer are telling me I need an engineers report to confirm the reliability of my car and it is ok to drive.

Does anyone know where I can get such a report from and why does an MOT certificate not cover it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated by this confused soul.....

[AdrianR]

MOT only checks specific things and they can't poke and prod the car about to see whether a repair has been done properly or bodged and then covered up.

I had one done on a runabout Polo we bought for my wife some years back - it had had a scrape down the side and been repaired with a s/hand door and wing; guy looked at fit and finish, then inside the trim panels and under the carpets for unrepaired damage - all fine so he pronounced it fit to drive and wrote a letter saying so.

I think the insurer recommended a few people and I phoned round for rates.

AdrianR

[PabloLFC]

thanks