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hobbit:

--- Quote from: "gtomo2" ---Must say my mot station gets me to drive my disco and the tester sits in the passenger seat with the brake tester so he can make sure its level etc and that way i can do the braking so its all nice and gentle. and it works for me. as if its not right the first time he gets me to do it again but a bit harder on the brakes. and the hand brake test we apply the brake on the wash down ramp (it a hgv garage so nice steep ramp) and see if it holds on three clicks
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Thats a good system, especially the handbrake, not sure on how it would be the proper method to do that though, for an mot

The handbrake is suppose to be the secondary braking on the vehicle, ie a back up to the service/main brakes

But it does do a none damage test for transmission brakes

L90OOK:
I'm sure the minimum for handbrake pass is 16%....so any test shouldn't put undue strain on transmission...as long as tester knows what he is doing.
I take my Landy to local ATS, the MOT tester drives a 110  :D

hobbit:
Yep thats what comes with me thinking :roll:

It is 16% for handbrake and 60% for service brake

But what you have to remember if people know what vehicle they are testing, some dont have permanent 4wd, like the series and other modern vehicles as well

You can test a standard series on the rolling brake test, but I must admit my mate does prefer to use a tapley meter than rollers on these beasts

Range Rover Blues:
All MOT garages should have been informed NOT to put 4wd vehicles onto 2 wheeled rollers, afetr a couple of near-misses with cars such as evil goat's Audi leaving the rollers unexpectedly and other cars being damaged.  The tester merely has to satisfy himself that the brakes are in a satisfactory condition, there is not requirement to use a rolling road at all.

The stion my mate works at has a computerised damper testing rig, but these are not a requirement yet either, even though my old Cavalier would ass the bounce test with no dampers on at all, provided the handbrake was on.

diggerdog36:
My 90 has just had its MOT, they took it for a spin said the hand brake was very good, then when I left there was 4 tyre marks down the road, now she leaks a guddun from the gear and transfer box!! I went back to complain that they had yanked the handbrake on, they said get in touch with VOSA as they lay down the test, that was 2 weeks ago, still no reply!

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