One week in - how's it been for you?

You know when people always go for the cheap option when having to have their cars repaired, well today that backfired on a customer when I failed the battery for being insecure , the type of battery fitted to the Hyundai had no steps at the lower case of the battery, OK steps might not be the right word but the idea is that the step sits inside the edge of the battery tray and the clamp on the other side secures it, if you see what I mean.

So the customer had to purchase the correct specification battery today to pass the mot test

I'll bet the battery manufacturers love that one

I failed a Renault the other day, the battery terminal was missing exposing bare terminal's. Presenter less than happy but never mind.

Doesn't take long Baz

I have a gentleman with a Golf who is going to get his mate to take the bulb out.

However I may have bad news for him.

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Like I've said previously....it doesn't say anywhere here: 2. A Supplementary Restraint System (SRS) malfunction indicator lamp: · inoperative · indicating a system malfunction., that the lamp has to be on to show up a malfunction . We test to see if it "Indicates" a malfunction.

Consequently a lamp not coming on when it should can indicate a malfunction too.

Just do as much research as you can to fully understand the systems in use and how the systems indicate faults. There aren't that many different formats and proecdures to be honest. They are all very similar.

If you understand the system in use during test and how it operates you'll know if your being informed of a malfunction via the MIL Lamp and when you can and can't apply the RfR above.

Example: the new range of Seats have about a 45 second system check before you'll know of a malfunction...that's nearly a full minute and that's a long time to watch a MIL Lamp.

Most fail decisions are made far quicker than that, if you have to think about a pass\fail decision it will prob be a P%A

So good I had to say it twice, too bad so deleted one

Yah I think it's a pass/advise Nitros.

the manual is specific about it being lamp/symbol/srs but doesn't mention anything about a message.

I'm with David. Just because it's bigger and spells out a message does not stop it from being a lamp. Like your indicators or position lamps used to be a single bulb, but can now be a multitude of leds, but still a single lamp. I think we sometimes try to split our hairs a bit too finely

Apply the RfR correctly and it has to fail