Do you have to have a front passenger seat fitted to a car in order for it to pass the test?
The frame on the front passenger seat of a friend's car is broken and therefore, I would guess, is an MoT fail. If he were to remove the seat altogether, would it be a failure?
At the moment, he can't locate a replacement seat from a breakers, so fixing it is not an option.
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Relevant section seems to be 6.2 Doors and Seats
Tester should:
2. Check the driver's and front passengers' seats for security.
3. Check that the backrests of all seats (front and rear) can be secured in their normal upright position.
Fail is:
2. The security of the drivers or front passenger's seat is significantly reduced.
3. A seat back that cannot be secured in the upright position.
So, yes, your pal's seat is a fail. However, there doesn't seem to be an explicit requirement for the seat to be fitted.
Info from www.motuk.co.uk/manual_620.htm
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Do you have to have a front passenger seat fitted to a car in order for it to pass the test?
In short - nope.
www.motuk.co.uk/manual_620.htm
Method of Inspection
2. Check the driver's and front passengers'
seats for security."
Reason for rejection
2. The security of the drivers or front passenger's seat is significantly reduced.
3. A seat back that cannot be secured in the upright position.
If the seat isn't there, then it can't be checked for any of the above.
Whilst a friend was doing up his MGB-GT, for 2 years running he removed the passenger seat come MOT time as it wasn't bolted down to the floor of the car. Instead of taking the car off the road to do up, he did the body repairs at weekends, but used it the rest of the week as his daily runaround.
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it wont fail but it might make your mot man look even deeper
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does the lack of a windscreen in a car mean a fail then?
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does the lack of a windscreen in a car mean a fail then?
No - it also removes the requirement for screen washers !!
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Some earlier vehicles had passenger seats as optional extras. Someone recently pointed this out ref Trojan ice cream vans.
Early LandRovers did not have seats at all. There were metal lockers, with a thin foam rubber cushion as an optional extra.
Possibly the seat belt would have to be removed too, because it would not be possible to demonstrate its effectiveness with no seat. The MOT tester always unfolds my extra boot seats in order to check the belts, even though neither in itself is a requirement.
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>> does the lack of a windscreen in a car mean a fail then? No - it also removes the requirement for screen washers !!
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e.g.
Jaguar C type & D type or
autopixx.de/autobilder/bilder-4415-renault-sport-s...l
www.bristolcars.co.uk/BlenheimSpeedster.htm
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Thanks for the helpfull replies - I'll pass them on.
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