Few queries

Hi,

Right, few queries as I'm baffled if it's supposed to be pass fail or advisory; in my mind should be at least an advisory.

Basically, 1 of my customers, they just brought a car, no idea why... But the place they brought it from carried out 2x MOTs on the vehicle within a few months. Renault Megane II 2005

On both MOTs there was not so much as an advisory.

I just inspected the car briefly, as part of a service, and I could feel movement in the passenger side steering tie rod.

I know it was movement / free play, as when I grabbed the wheel to the left and right and rocked / pushed and pulled on it... The wheel was moving ever so slightly in and out, with no visible movement in the steering wheel. Wasn't a massive amount of movement but free play was evident none the less... I then repeated on drivers side for comparison and could feel no movement present it just felt different. So clearly some kind of movement / free play on passenger side.

But I'm baffled why this was not so much as an advisory on not just 1 MOT but 2 by the same place! Are they not inspecting the vehicles properly? Should I get it double checked by VOSA?

Other query on a different car,

Ford mondeo mk3 2001

this is a relatives vehicle which I also only inspected recently, went back through MOT history, and 3 years in a row the rear subframe bushes were an advisory, but ever since they have been taking the car to a different MOT place in the subsequent 3 years that advisory has not so much as appeared once, I had a look and don't know why? As it's deteriorated to the point where the rubber is actually flaking off not just 1 either it's all 4, but not so much as an advisory.