Aeroscreen for MOT?

[heptagon]

I recently fitted the carbon Aeroscreen I got at the Caterham auto-jumble and now need to get the car MOT'd at the weekend. Will the MOT tester pass the car without raising this as an issue or should I put the screen back on to be safe.

 

The Aeroscreen currently only has a right hand mirror, not sure if that's an issue as well?

 

Advice appreciated

[keybaud]

My car passed with brookland aeros and no wipers and you only need 1 mirror on a normal car to meet MOT regulations.

[Markiebabes]

[7TOM]

When I was testing if there was no screen the wipers and washers were not testable items , as with mirrors

you needed a drivers and either a rear view or passenger side

[keybaud]

Quoting 7TOM: 

When I was testing if there was no screen the wipers and washers were not testable items , as with mirrors

you needed a drivers and either a rear view or passenger side

 

MOT regulations state:

 

Obligatory mirrors are

 

a. an exterior mirror fitted to the offside (right-hand side when seated in the

drivers seat), or

 

b, an exterior mirror fitted to the

nearside fleft hand side when seated In the drivers seat), or

 

c. an interior mirror.

 

So, just one mirror.

 

http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_810.htm

 

Edited by - keybaud on 18 Apr 2013 21:10:19

[heptagon]

Thanks, job done then! Just hope it's dry on Saturday morning

[7TOM]

I'm 99% sure you need 2 with the drivers side being compulsory and any one of the others

[keybaud]

Quoting 7TOM: 

I'm 99% sure you need 2 with the drivers side being compulsory and any one of the others

 

It says 'a or b or c'. i.e. one of any of them.

 

Edited by - keybaud on 18 Apr 2013 21:20:52

[heptagon]

I have RHS and interior,well it was

[Shaun_E]

First used before 1978 is one mirror, after 1978 requires 2 one of which must be offside.

[BBL]

Quoting keybaud: 

Quoting 7TOM: 

When I was testing if there was no screen the wipers and washers were not testable items , as with mirrors

you needed a drivers and either a rear view or passenger side

 

MOT regulations state:

 

Obligatory mirrors are

 

a. an exterior mirror fitted to the offside (right-hand side when seated in the

drivers seat), or

 

b, an exterior mirror fitted to the

nearside fleft hand side when seated In the drivers seat), or

 

c. an interior mirror.

 

So, just one mirror.

 

http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_810.htm

 

Edited by - keybaud on 18 Apr 2013 21:10:19

A bit farther down on the same page, it reads,

Passenger vehicles with more than 7 passenger seats of any age, and all passenger vehicles first used on or after I August 1978 (not being a minibus as above), must have two mirrors, one of which must be option 'a'.

 

[keybaud]

Quoting BBL: 

A bit farther down on the same page, it reads,

Passenger vehicles with more than 7 passenger seats of any age, and all passenger vehicles first used on or after I August 1978 (not being a minibus as above), must have two mirrors, one of which must be option 'a'.

 

Bugger, that means I drove illegally to Scotland last weekend, despite my trying to clarify the rules. Hiding the term 'all passenger vehicles' inside a paragraph starting 'Passenger vehicles with more than 7 passenger seats' isn't the best format for providing clarity.

 

Edited by - keybaud on 19 Apr 2013 17:06:02

[Roger Ford]

Bugger, that means I drove illegally to Scotland last weekend

No it doesn't, it means you wouldn't have passed an MOT on your way to Scotland.

 

It's possible that Construction and Use regs have a similar provision, but by no means certain.

 

[Roger Ford]

Ah, C&U do have a similar clause:

here - see Item 6

 

Interesting that Ford Transit "motor cars" have a special date applied.

 

Edited by - Roger Ford on 19 Apr 2013 18:30:56