That depends where you go Martin, Took my wife's focus for its MOT yesterday, my fault for listening to reports of everything seems fine......failed on a none working headlight bulb and front pads below limit (my fault, cobblers sons have the worse shoes in the street and all that).
O8:30 this morning I was outside the local factors and bought a set of pads, I had a bulb in stock. 10:00 back at the test station and he walked round the car once and flashed the lights and issued a pass with no extra charge. I asked if they had to do another test as it had left the premises and he said 'No, depends on what it is but we only test the failed teams, I can see you have fitted new pads through the alloys and the headlights working.......
I was a tester for 10 years and this s all new to me as it's been 30+ years since the last one I did?
Seems yet again that no consistency rules?
Just found this, seems it's all in the rules and depends on what it failed for and how soon it's retested.
http://mottesting.org.uk/mot-retest-information-fail.html
