I got the same advisory for our 22 years old Polo.
I really wonder if a worn bush in the upper suspension strut can be detected by only moving the wheels.
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Surely, the tester couldn't show me those bushes as the are hidden.
I only noticed that testing at this MOT station, where I'm since three years now with our three cars, has become a little bit awkward and bizarre this year since the computerisation of the MOT testing.
On one other car, the tester raised a non-existing fuel leak.
On the second other car, it was a non-existing hydraulic fluid leak and a non-working side repeater that worked before and after the MOT test.
Well, all things are easy to fix if you do it on your own.
But on the Polo he raised strange things like "worn suspension strut bushes" and a imbalanced handbrake.
I should only open one drum and make it going again.
As the drum brake shoes would last only a year or two, I decided to give everything, the bushes and the drum brakes, to my low cost garage (15 £ for one hour of labour).
So the garage put new bushes on the suspension struts and by the way new bushes on the wish bones, too.
All together did cost me 130 £ with all parts.
As I want to keep this car (and our others, too) as long as possible, so I don't mind really to replace anything on the car, but I got the impression that MOT testing has become more picky since the computerisation. People reading statistics from MOT stations might think that such old cars MUST have lots of faults.
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