Car Weight

[Guest flannyford]

I have just taken my exmo for its mot, it failed on a ball joint & brake effort has failed due to having to put the weight in as a sierra (1340Kg) does anyone know what the weight of a exmo or B2 is ?

[Guest chris brown]

I have just taken my exmo for its mot, it failed on a ball joint & brake effort has failed due to having to put the weight in as a sierra (1340Kg) does anyone know what the weight of a exmo or B2 is ?

Unless the car is incorrectly registered i.e. V5 and hence the MoT computer show the car as a Sierra there is no reason for the tester to put in the Sierra weight in but he should have asked you for the weight. BTW 750Kg is a nice round figure.

Also if the car was incorrectly registered the tester should refuse to test.

[Guest gdc]

as chris has said the weight is arround 750kg for mot perpose.

sierra weight gives me the impression as said that the v5 poss has sierra as make of car

if thats the case you may have to poss sva the car to have it changed .

could be a putor glitch though and v5 ok and vosa wrong ?

check it .

you could be driving a wrong un .

is it a recent purchace ?

 

graham

[Guest flannyford]

as chris has said the weight is arround 750kg for mot perpose.

sierra weight gives me the impression as said that the v5 poss has sierra as make of car

if thats the case you may have to poss sva the car to have it changed .

could be a putor glitch though and v5 ok and vosa wrong ?

check it .

you could be driving a wrong un .

is it a recent purchace ?

 

graham

the v5 states its a robinhood exmo but doesnt say the weight, all the brakes have just been replaced and need to bed in, the effort limit for the MOT is 50 and mine was 43, with the correct weight it should pass ok .Thaks for the info i will find out next saturday when it goes back for a retest.

 

Car was last on the road in 1998 before the new style MOT's

Edited February 28, 2009 by flannyford