Got my 3rd years service today along with the cars 1st M.O.T.
What do you know, they fail the car due to illegal number plates.
Number plates that were fitted to the car from new. they are the 3D Effect plates which I know full well are legal but the dealer and tester were having none of it.
Had to buy new plates to pass the M.O.T and it's in the hands of SEAT UK to claim back the cost of the plates now as I am not that local to the dealer and did not want to be going all the way back there for a retest.
Bloody joke really.
Be sure to complain to VOSA or whatever they are calling themself's this week, sounds like you got a jumped up mot tester who thinks he's god.
I had one like that, was really smacking the hell out of the underside floor of the car with a pointed weld chipping hammer, politely told him your only supposed to prod at it, not beat it to death and as it's only just 3 years old it's hardly lightly to be riddled with rust.
Obviously that upset him, as later he informed me later he had failed it on the led sidelights / led headlights being to blue and I'd need to change them, WTF it came from the factory like that. But with typical small man complex he was having none of that and as far as he was concerned it's a fail
So one call to VOSA and the garage head office, and I left with the pass certificate and the mot for free and hopefully he got kicked round the test center by his boss for being a ****
