MOT damage

[trannyheap]

My mate suggested I post this issue on the forum to see if anyone else has experienced the same as me. In the old days, when your vehicle was MOT'd they put it on a ramp, jacked up the front end and used a lever to check the suspension and steering joints. Nowadays the ramp has a couple of pads which at the touch of a button exert very severe sideways pressures on the wheels. On older Transit's with taper wheel bearings this would not be a problem, however the bearings on my mk7 are roller bearings which, I am advised by my mechanic mate, have little or no end float and not designed to take that type of movement. I replaced the front bearings around 25k mls ago, and there wasn't a sound coming from them before the MOT test, but immediately afterwords the horrendous bearing rumble was unmistakably that of a damaged bearing. I doubt that the MOT station would accept any liability, and as they are the only one reasonably locally I wouldn't want to fall out with them. I assume the testing equipment has to be approved by VOSA. Has anyone else suffered the same?

[andz327]

My mate suggested I post this issue on the forum to see if anyone else has experienced the same as me. In the old days, when your vehicle was MOT'd they put it on a ramp, jacked up the front end and used a lever to check the suspension and steering joints. Nowadays the ramp has a couple of pads which at the touch of a button exert very severe sideways pressures on the wheels. On older Transit's with taper wheel bearings this would not be a problem, however the bearings on my mk7 are roller bearings which, I am advised by my mechanic mate, have little or no end float and not designed to take that type of movement. I replaced the front bearings around 25k mls ago, and there wasn't a sound coming from them before the MOT test, but immediately afterwords the horrendous bearing rumble was unmistakably that of a damaged bearing. I doubt that the MOT station would accept any liability, and as they are the only one reasonably locally I wouldn't want to fall out with them. I assume the testing equipment has to be approved by VOSA. Has anyone else suffered the same?

If what your mate says is correct then I'd imagine you'd need a new bearing everytime you turned a corner or a fast bend or even a roundabout, was it your mate that done your bearing

[trannyheap]

No, it wasn't. It was replaced by a main dealer. I've had 18 transits and 16 Ford cars, and never had a bearing fail in that manner. My mate is a plant & vehicle engineer who's worked on thousands of vehicles over thirty years. The MOT station's machine exerted a sideways force way in excess of what would be experienced in normal driving.

[ned]

You ain't seen how Mr Andz drives Cornering on 2 wheels N

[Altransit]

Interesting theory

Mine needed a NSF wheel bearing after the MOT back in May. I hadn't heard it rumbling before then, either

[dumper]

Mine been through 8 mots and still on original bearing and done 150000 mls and being on the testing pads for all mots it’s had

[karl]

best advice is take it to a mot test station that only does mots and no work at all on any vehicles

[Jim Archer]

I'd suggest 'your mate' might want to read up on Duplex Taper Roller bearings then ......

If the thrust/shaker plates have damaged the wheel bearing, it was going to fail shortly anyway.

Jim

[andz327]

Mine been through 8 mots and still on original bearing and done 150000 mls and being on the testing pads for all mots it’s had

You ain't seen how Mr Andz drives Cornering on 2 wheels N

Mr Ned you've changed.......just Ned noo.....

[andz327]

I'd suggest 'your mate' might want to read up on Duplex Taper Roller bearings then ......

If the thrust/shaker plates have damaged the wheel bearing, it was going to fail shortly anyway.

Jim

I'm with you on this one jim A

[andz327]

best advice is take it to a mot test station that only does mots and no work at all on any vehicles

Don't think I've seen one of them karl .....well not up the road in Glesga anyway

[bigjohnthomas]

My 20 year old sooty van has roller bearings up.front
And passed the mot machine no.problems
If you weak ass FORD TRANSIT mk7 bearings can't cope with a little wobbligs then fooking scrap it

Hope this helps
S.m allcock

Kk
Nice chat
Bye

[motorman116]

The shaker plates on the Mot ramps has been approved for years, and every vehicle has the same test.

Sounds more like the bearing was on its way out, maybe cheap inferior parts.

[ned]

Mine been through 8 mots and still on original bearing and done 150000 mls and being on the testing pads for all mots it’s had

You ain't seen how Mr Andz drives Cornering on 2 wheels N

Mr Ned you've changed.......just Ned noo.....

T'was a bit of rebranding N

[knobby1]

Aren't Mk7 wheel bearings all tapered roller bearings anyway..??

Lord Knobrot