i do wonder if they have gone to town on that mot inspection.
my mot place regularly passes the headlights even though i'm sure the adjusters are broken. the beam is ok but not perfect. the lenses are a bit cloudy. they also told me off the record to wire brush and paint the osr brake pipe and it has passed ever since. if i had a sharp edge i hadn't fixed i'm sure they would bash it to non sharp foc. once he said off the record i needed to clean up some rust on the underside - I just wirebrushed it and treated with anti rust and it has never appeared on advisories.
i'm also pretty sure mine wouldn't write down most of those advisories - he'd just have quiet word. only gripe is twice over the years i have been caught with 'not yellow in enough indicator bulbs'. he keeps a stock of news ones and fitted them foc though i had to pay full price for them.
on the other hand maybe your tester has held back and really the car's a complete wreck 
. it was free though 
I would suggest taking it to another mot place but i haven't yet worked out if it is all computerised now and the new place will see the recent failures. years back you could get 2 completely different mot results within the same day from different places and that's with a genuine inspection each time.
Yes, the details are on the computer and any tester will see them. Now that it actually has failed on corroded brake pipes, nobody with any sense will pass it until they have been replaced. Any tester I've seen would have marked the actual corrosion he was unhappy with. As no dismantling or deliberate damage is allowed, you err on the side of caution especially for safety related things that often
only get fixed because they've failed an MOT! There is still an element of judgement for much of the MOT, this is where your relationship with the garage comes into play - I've had them tell me
that should have been an advisory, but I didn't write it up because I know you'll fix it. Kate's failure sheet looks bad, but most of it is actually pretty cheap to deal with. The brake pipes are the job where DIY will make the biggest saving.
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