mot ?

having fitted set of second hand alloy wheels [not vauxhall factory fitted] from an a series on to my b series im obsessed with the fact that its gona fail the mot next month because the tyres are sticking out too much from the bodywork so can anybody post pictures of their frontys with wider wheels that have been given a pass so i can make a comparisson please or post a link from the site of members with prutruding rubber [ ive had a look but didnt find much]
also any after market add on wheel arch links would be appreciated just in case the worse comes to the worse :wink:

Search for A friend in the members rides, he has early A alloys and has no probs with the MOT :wink:

Have you not got the originals you put on just for the test?

ive dumped my old rusty steels because i couldnt stand the sight of them :wink:

not 1 of my brightest ideas now that krusher has mentioned it

ill try and find gypsys members ride now, wish me luck :lol:

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ive looked through the members rides and gypsys aint there

The BBB passed the other weekend

Lawrence

congratulations on the pass mate :wink:

yours look pretty much the same distance out as mine

It should fail if the wheels are sticking out past the bodywork.
Easiest way to rectify this is to fit some plastic (or rubber) spats on each arch.
Just a flat piece of plastic (or rubber) riveted to underside of the existing arches will do.

If the wheels rub at any point on the arches, inner wings, shocks or arch liners (i.e. on full lock) the examiner should also fail the car.

Last edited by fogman on Tue May 12, 2009 11:22 pm, edited 4 times in total.

these are gona fail then ? :cry:

Mine stick out more I think and passed, my understanding is if you can see tyre tread while looking down from the top of the car it can fail, but its down to the tester really.

Though there is no mention of it here

http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_410.htm

I've had a look around the VOSA guidlines and some of the Police forums on line and from what i've read i deduce the following.

The VOSA guidlines seems to be quite open to interpretation and if i interpret what they say correctly then the car should pass the MOT.
However, if i was you i would ring my local VOSA testing station before you take the car for an MOT, at any garage, for clarification.

Now, if by chance your car does pass the MOT the Police may interpret things slightly differently.
The subject of wheels protruding from wheel arches has been discussed greatly between certain fellow officers and it looks like some would try to give
you a fixed penalty ticket.

Anyhew...my advice is ring VOSA. If they say it is ok then take the car for MOT.
If the garage fail it...... give the Inspector the name of the person you spoke to at VOSA and watch him tremble.

I have got the early A series alloys on my B swb and they stick out a good 1+1/2". I was a bit wooried about it passing the mot.

My tester said that you are allowed an inch and half protruding beyond the arches, any more and you need to extend the arch. They passed no problem

yep, thems big buggers

That's Gibbo (he moved to the darkside after he blew his fronty up)

are gibbos road legal or does he change them to go offroad ?

road legal and goes through mot no probs

in that case mine should p**s it then :wink:

I did pose the question re tyres to my MOT tester... and went on to say that it it failed on them I'd bring it back the next day with a different set of wheels on - it passed no problem.

When the BBB was at the garage for a few weeks when I changed the engine, an ex policeman popped in with a car for some work to be done and passed comment on the BBB (up on the ramp with no engine) regarding the tyres - I remembered that, hence my question to the MOT guy.

Interesting comment about the 1 - 1½" though - not heard of that before.

Lawrence

only quoting what my tester told me......mind you, you know how friendly my mot guy is :wink:

I had early A wheels on before and it went thru the MOT no probs, AND that was with 30mm wheel spacers. Cant see you having any problems mate.

And to add my voice to the general cry, I've had the early A-series alloys on both my LWB and SWB and they've gone through MOT juuuust fine

Admittedly, less of an issue on the SWB cos the arches flare out more anyways, but even so, you'll be fine...

Jim...

Ps; bobbins - any chance of a piccie or two of Nemesis, see how it's coming along??