Ramps, Lifts.. MOT related.. Help!

[rob192]

Car went in for it's MOT the other day, all well and good.. except for the car never actually had the MOT 'cos it was too low to get on the ramps. Gutted tbh, since I worked quite hard getting it to a state where it might actually pass an MOT.

Apparantly the guy told my dad (I was at work at the time) that it needed to be raised 4 inches so it could go on the ramps, I'm fairly certain that it's never 4 inches lower than stock, and even if the car was lowered 30mm surely it would still go on the ramps.

Can someone in the trade (or anyone that happens to know ) describe to me, or give me a picture of, a type of ramp that my car would be able to get on?

Or, preferably, tell me somewhere in East/North London that has ramps suitable for slammed motors that do 'sympathetic' MOT's .

Cheers,

Rob.

 

[Daniel]

Ramps that are sunk into the ground.

I thought all MOT rams had to be completely flush with the floor..... I may be wrong.

 

[Sash]

find somewhere thats got a pit rather than ramps, then they can get underneath it without having to raise it. although pits are pretty much a thing of the past, they guy who does mine stil has a pit in the MOT bay

 

[MEDD]

I have a pit in my garage! lol dont ask my why, seems to go down well with the local rats!

 

[Fred@BTM]

if mine can get on the ramp then anyones can! (mine has to be reversed on)

 

[edde]

They just don't want to do it unless its realy low and there ramsp don't go low they havn't realy any excuse.

 

[Limca]

i got my car on the ramp WITH COILOVERS with 70mm on the front. i went quickfit

 

[JAY172]

any newish mot station will have a ramp that when lowered sits flush with the ground so you can drive straight. a mot station must only use a flat bed ramp or pit. try another mot centre

 

[geesus69]

as said above mot ramp should be a 4 poster that sits flush to floor, like so....

as you can see unless the car is literally 2 cms off the floor it shouldnt have any bother getting on the ramp, 2 posters on the other hand are a royal pain in the back side for my 106! have to get trolley jacks under it and then but blocks of wood under the wheels to raise it up enough :clown: the joys of having a modified car eh!

 

[Christophe]

if mine can get on the ramp then anyones can! (mine has to be reversed on)

how low is that? love it!

 

[Fred@BTM]

thats about 100mm all round, it was -120mm at the back with all the interior in

 

[rob192]

It wasn't so much getting it on to the ramp, I didn't explain very well. Once the car was half way onto the ramp, there was like 2 sections of metal running between the 2 halves of the ramp that apparantly they jack the car up on while it's on the ramp to check the steering components, and it was these that the car couldn't get over.

But thanks for the replies anyway, I'll take it somewhere with flush to the floor ramps and tell them to reverse it on.

 

[cat171]

How much lower than standard is it ??
Just go elsewhere ?

 

[phill172]

have the same problem with my vw beetle, its so low that i had to narrow the beam by 4.5 inches! Just find any garage that does classic cars etc as they all have flat ramps and are sympathetic to lowered viechles or a small private garage, i wouldnt bother about going to a 'average' garage as there all run by pricks!

 

[cat171]

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can you get some pics up of it in a new thread? I love old beetles.

 

[davebem]

^
can you get some pics up of it in a new thread? I love old beetles.

Ditto..

 

[rob192]

^
can you get some pics up of it in a new thread? I love old beetles.

Ditto..

Thritto.

I will be going elsewhere, I just don't get back from work til 6 every day and my dad took it down there the other day.