Quote from sparky Paul: "I went through the new system for entering faults with my MOT man, he was showing me some of the convoluted wording. His current bugbear is that a perfectly good ball joint with a damaged rubber is now a fail, whilst play in a ball joint or TRE, which could rapidly turn nasty, is only a 'monitor and repair if necessary' and a pass. Most of the 'dangerous' category faults should be fairly evident from visual inspection or driving."
My son put his Jazz in last week, it failed on a Major fault.
The rubber on the drop link ball joint had split. No play or wear just a split rubber. Picture od failure notice attached
I consider that pretty good result considering he has had it 11 months and probably not opened the bonnet!
Pain in the neck to be a major and he put it in a month to early, I offered to look at it first but he declined.
I probably wouldn't have gone looking for that anyway unless it was obvious. Another check for me to do.
I assume it was Kwik Fit that did the testing (over the road from him) so he left it for repair.