I'll be bringing my 2CV back to Worcester for it's MOT in September as I'm not sure if I could trust it to the local Shetland MOT station. By the way, the islands of Yell, Unst and Fetlar don't have an MOT station between them, so provided I don't take the car to Mainland, I won't need an MOT.

Re shedulde the mot on the 106 after finding the insulation was holding the rear end together

All welded up, now just to paint and wax oyl in preparation for monday weeks expectant mot fail ..!!

An MoT test(er) is either honest - in which case he has a difficult job at times, deciding whether or not to pass or fail marginal cases - or dishonest, in which case passing or failing will be a matter of whatever rules he happens to be playing by.

But deliberately taking an old Cit to a testing station where they don't know anything about them is not what I would ever choose to do. Your life may depend on a sharp-eyed tester who knows his stuff. 'Looking for trouble' is partly what an MoT is about, and when driving a 2cv hard on a winding road, I don't fancy something letting go just as a big truck is about to pass.

I once sent my 2cv to a place which knew about the cars, they failed it on what I considered daft stuff at the time, but on reflection they were right. The cars may be from the 1940s, but modern traffic and roads just aren't.