Hi all.
I have two bikes. One is a GS1200 Adventure and the other isnt, but is nevertheless a BMW. This post relates to that other bike, but could, I think, just have easily related to the GSA.
The non-GS bike went in to my local dealership last week for a service and MOT. It failed the MOT because the tester decreed that the headlight aimed right on dipped beam, not left. The bike has a 2008 plate. This will have been something like the eleventh MOT test in its life, all of which it has passed. In all, those tests will have involved about five different testing stations. None had mentioned a right-hand headlamp aim.
The bike is, as I mentioned, a BMW. It is standard UK spec, with mph clocks, trip computer etc. it is definitely not a grey import, and was first registered as a new bike at a major UK BMW dealership.
Now, I am reluctant to believe that every other tester before last week had either failed to notice that the headlight aim was wrong (if indeed it is), or that they all noticed, but all turned a blind eye to the matter. Thats partly an issue some in the know might perhaps like to comment on.
My main question, however, is: what would be the best and most authoritative avenue open to me to challenge that MOT failure? Its been sorted with black sticky tape on the lens, for now, but I understand the MOT rules mean I cant resubmit it for a test elsewhere for the next 11 months or so.
Happy to have comments and start some discussion, particularly if youve been in this situation yourself.
Thanks.
Tom
I have two bikes. One is a GS1200 Adventure and the other isnt, but is nevertheless a BMW. This post relates to that other bike, but could, I think, just have easily related to the GSA.
The non-GS bike went in to my local dealership last week for a service and MOT. It failed the MOT because the tester decreed that the headlight aimed right on dipped beam, not left. The bike has a 2008 plate. This will have been something like the eleventh MOT test in its life, all of which it has passed. In all, those tests will have involved about five different testing stations. None had mentioned a right-hand headlamp aim.
The bike is, as I mentioned, a BMW. It is standard UK spec, with mph clocks, trip computer etc. it is definitely not a grey import, and was first registered as a new bike at a major UK BMW dealership.
Now, I am reluctant to believe that every other tester before last week had either failed to notice that the headlight aim was wrong (if indeed it is), or that they all noticed, but all turned a blind eye to the matter. Thats partly an issue some in the know might perhaps like to comment on.
My main question, however, is: what would be the best and most authoritative avenue open to me to challenge that MOT failure? Its been sorted with black sticky tape on the lens, for now, but I understand the MOT rules mean I cant resubmit it for a test elsewhere for the next 11 months or so.
Happy to have comments and start some discussion, particularly if youve been in this situation yourself.
Thanks.
Tom