hi simon thanks for the info ,im having to take my wife to harrogate this weekend as a penalty for buying the reo but if i can do a swerve towards york i will do! we will just have to persivere with the mot , its a bind but we will get there , i should not complain realy because mots are my livelyhood and i know most of the testers at our local VOSA stn at beverley ,your dead right when you say we have a responsibility to keep our vehs right ,the reo i bought is a good example of a dealer selling a potential death trap i bought it down near portsmouth, and all you can do is look at the thing its impossible to see inside them! anyway when it arrived here i stripped the brakes down it took me a week to do 4 hubs! lineings were non existant 1 bearing had collapsed and had torn the oil seal to shreds the hubs were all heavily contaminated with oil, the adjusing cams were so siezed i had to remove the backplates and press them out in the workshop! the w/cyls were all leaking and the m/cylinder was dry ,once round the block and someone could have died! i still have the front hubs to do if i had not had my workshop facilliteis i cound not have been able to do it, needless to say hes not answering the phone to me, but when i do get it finnished it ill know its right. ill get in touch with the other milly owner to see how hes going on with his mot regards bill