Hello Peter,

Thanks for the reply, I'm in Oman and cars of ten years and over go for what passes for an MOT here, the inspection is carried out by the police, you join a que and when its your cars turn a police sprog jumps in and subjects your car to what they think looks impressive to the equally incompitent at the next bay. usually the suspension is checked by a shake and then the front wheel brakes are checked when the vehicle is positioned on the single setof rollers, then its the back suspension then car forward on to the single set of rollers to check the back braqles, I had to intervene to stop the inspector breaking my half shafts by puling on the hand brake. I'm not up on automatics, but as I said, it went for inspection fine and came out the other side a different car.......so it could have been the rolling road after all! if my understanding of your reply is correct, many thanks, Mike.