Finally after a bit of toing and froing the old girl has passed. Took her for the re-test and they weren't happy with the headlight but she would have passed the smoke test.
Took her back this morning for the proper re-test and they called to say they had hooked her up tot the smoke tester and she was going to fail.
Asked them to take her for a quick Italian job which they were happy to do and she 'quick passed' with a smoke reading of 0.47 so a huge difference to pre-service. Can ignore it for another year now 🙂
good work , amazing what a service and a bit of heat can do.
a lot of emission failures are insufficient heat related.
especially if they are cold started then left idling on the mot ramp whilst the tests ongoing.
good news on the result.