Hydrolic handbrake mot solutions???

[sambo]

What do you guys reckon is a cheap solution to getting a car through the MOT that has a hydrolic handbrake?

 

1) tell the tester and hope he will overlook it?

2) DONT tell the tester and hope he wont notice it

3) fit a single calliper on one of the discs

4) none of the above

 

??? What solutions are there??

 

Cheers.

[kev16v]

it must have its own feed to the handbrake so that if ur foot brake gives up.u have ur handbrake to full back on

ie duel system two brake pots one for foot,one for handbrake

[toad650]

I've got this same prob but i get on well with the MOTer so hopefully it'll be ok. I was thinking of just putting in some cables that don't do anything, how are they to know??

You wouldn't be able to fit just one caliper as the handbrake has to work on both sides, unless you've got an LSD i guess but i don't think that comes into the MOT regs.

[sambo]

I like your way of thinking!

[toad650]

I've got a funny feeling that the handbrake is going to be the least of my probs though

 

Let me know how it goes if yours is soon so i can work it out too.

[bortaf]

Any decent tester will/should check the mechanical operation of the cable by getting somone to pull on the H/B while checking underneath so fake cabeling wont really work.

The only thing you can do is find a crap tester who wont notice

 

taken from some techy MOT stuff on the web

 

"Hydraulic Parking Brakes

Hydraulic parking brakes as a sole means of operation are not acceptable on vehicles first used on or after 1 January 1968. However, they may be used to assist the application or release of a mechanical brake."

[RETRO_AL]

get rid if it if yuo dont use it

[Mrp]

use rear calipers from a car that uses a cable. Or leave standard handbrake with cables and get a funky upright hyd fun handle mounted off the side of the tunnel up front. Dont buy one they are easy to make if you think about it......

[tazrocks88]

talk 2 the tester before u spend any money my tester said as long as it stops the car he is happy to pass it

[pelvins]

 

taken from some techy MOT stuff on the web

 

"Hydraulic Parking Brakes

Hydraulic parking brakes as a sole means of operation are not acceptable on vehicles first used on or after 1 January 1968. However, they may be used to assist the application or release of a mechanical brake."

 

 

mine is a 66" anglia with hydraulic handbrake and ive been told they cant fail it . by law it only has to have a means of stopping the rear wheels from rotating this is all it specifies (before 1968 ) but i do have a split system . fronts and rears are separate , but i have a line lock on the front so if the handbrake fails the brakes to the front would have to fail aswell before it hurteled down the road . hope this helps .. oh plus i know a few testers aswell

[toad650]

Any decent tester will/should check the mechanical operation of the cable by getting somone to pull on the H/B while checking underneath so fake cabeling wont really work.

The only thing you can do is find a crap tester who wont notice "

 

 

The new brake testers n MOT ramps are all computer opperated so only need the one bloke

[tim]

Any decent tester will/should check the mechanical operation of the cable by getting somone to pull on the H/B while checking underneath so fake cabeling wont really work.

The only thing you can do is find a crap tester who wont notice "

 

 

The new brake testers n MOT ramps are all computer opperated so only need the one bloke

 

the stuff at work needs to people the tester and a helper to sit in the car,brand new stuff all tested by vosa this week

[Guest MK1gaz]

I'm sure you need a cable operated handbrake for an mot but i'll ask him tommorrow for you . They do check that the handbrake mechanism moves and stops the wheels , that i know for sure