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stevegreetham
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Registered: 30th Oct 03
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11th Nov 03 at 18:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i have my MOT soon, i dont have many mods atm (partly coz av just passed my test) but i do have a silver vauxhall sticker across my windscreen, it has no background, it is just the letters really if ya get me. would i fail for this?
jamied
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Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
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11th Nov 03 at 18:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

nope, unless it goes like rlyfar down
KITcorsa
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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11th Nov 03 at 19:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

mine failed for a sunstrip all they did is just removed it for the pass!!
stevegreetham
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11th Nov 03 at 22:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

did urs have a background and/or gro really far down though?
CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
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11th Nov 03 at 23:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I've not got one, but from what i've heard, provided your sunstrip/lettering doesnt come below the tip of your wiper when its vertical, you're ok...
DC
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Registered: 24th Apr 02
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12th Nov 03 at 12:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

if the wiper touch the lettering at all when on or vertical (same thing really, lol) it should fail for it. If it does they will just take em off n u can get new ones put on.
stevegreetham
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12th Nov 03 at 18:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

guess am alrite then, it dunt touch the lettering
PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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12th Nov 03 at 22:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

if it covers more than 8 inches of the screen (depth that it, not the length) it will fail.
Gav16v
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Registered: 13th May 02
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13th Nov 03 at 09:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Nope, The rule is that NOTHING is allowed in the swept area of your windscreen (ie the bit the wipers sweep over). I know cos the MOT guy that failed me told me
caddog
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
Location: Tamnaherin Eglinton N.Ireland
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13th Nov 03 at 12:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I had a border around the full windscreen of my cav on the inside and they made me take it off.... it did'nt obscure the wiper path... Ill always wonder if the fact that the MOT man caught me with his daughter have anything to do with it somethings are best left unsaid
John_C
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Registered: 5th Mar 03
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13th Nov 03 at 16:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

wen i had mine on they passed wen the wipers actually went over the sunstrip.

jus depends where u go
Corsa^Dan
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Registered: 4th Dec 02
Location: Sleaford, Lincolnshire
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13th Nov 03 at 16:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yeh mine passed and my wipers come realy far onto my sunstrip....
Danz_Corsa
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Registered: 24th Aug 03
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14th Nov 03 at 20:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i spoke to the MOT helpline.

From the drivers seat you must have 215mm of clear vision,

but basically as the other guys were saying can't block the wipers.

as a rule of thumb - teh same length as teh sunvisor, cause that can't be illegal, can it?
Danz_Corsa
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Registered: 24th Aug 03
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i spoke to the MOT helpline.

From the drivers seat you must have 215mm of clear vision,

but basically as the other guys were saying can't block the wipers.

as a rule of thumb - teh same length as teh sunvisor, cause that can't be illegal, can it?
Screaming Vtec
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Registered: 29th Jul 03
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   14th Nov 03 at 20:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I think this law has recently changed..
It used to be either 6 or 8" down the screen.. Now its if the wipers sweep over it at all..

PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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14th Nov 03 at 20:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I remember when I was mis-guided & had a dimma strip, the wipers used to foul the strip & it showed as it actually wore the strip down, yet the test station I took mine passed it ok, they werent fussed tbh, even with a shagged wheel bearing!

It depends really on where you take it & if the MOT tester got any off his missus/lover the night before

 
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