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Very possible or maybe they are ultra busy and it’s on a job sheet to be done after everything else has been cleared from their workshops. Example-VW like you to book routine services/MoTs at least a month up front?
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If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen
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When I contacted the cops about a missing vehicle, Rare as hens teeth Honda Acty Camper van I'd left in the care of a colleage who then passed it on to someone else, apparently in an episode of ...er...drunken generosity, though at that point he was saying it had been towed) they took the position that, since I had given them custody, it was a civil matter.
The situation here seems similar, though it doesn't apparently involve people from Essex, and is more likely to be satisfactorily resolved eventually
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Example-VW like you to book routine services/MoTs at least a month up front?
Done that with all brands of cars we have owned for many years, you get the work done when you want and the MOT does not expire.
Its called planning ahead.
Those car brands include VW, Ford, Mini, BMW, Kia, Nissan, Seat, Skoda
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Example-VW like you to book routine services/MoTs at least a month up front?
Done that with all brands of cars we have owned for many years, you get the work done when you want and the MOT does not expire.
Its called planning ahead.
Those car brands include VW, Ford, Mini, BMW, Kia, Nissan, Seat, Skoda
I always renewed my road tax just before my MOT expired, so I could effectively get 2 years use out of an MOT certificate. They didn't much like it in the PO Office.
"This MOT is just about to expire"
"Yes I know, That's why I'm renewing the tax disk now, while ithe MOT s still valid. Whats your point?".
I suppose I might have called that planning ahead as well, though perhaps there are other terms for it.
Worked with anycar brand.
Edited by edlithgow on 23/12/2022 at 15:37
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Various things could have happened here:
1, The RAC might not have given Westbourne Motors the 'job' to redeliver your car. Just because they picked it up and stored it doesn't automatically mean that they are sent the new task by the RAC for the onward tow.
2, Have the garage in Maidenhead refused to accept the car? A proportion of garages and bodyshops are refusing to take in vehicles that don't have a prior booking as they don't have the time or space to deal with them or store them. There is the possibility that your car has been taken to the garage, refused and returned back into storage.
3, Maybe Westbourne Motors just haven't had the time to redeliver your car. Roadside breakdowns tend to take priority and there is not an infinite supply of recovery trucks or time so sometimes you can fall down the queue. The RAC could themselves collect the car or get another contractor in, but if Westbourne are busy, so is everyone else.
You need to speak to the RAC and establish exactly what the circumstances are with your vehicle.
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I always renewed my road tax just before my MOT expired, so I could effectively get 2 years use out of an MOT certificate.
An MOT is valid for 12 months, end of story. The expiry date is either 12 months after the test or 12 months after the expiry of the previous certificate whichever is later.
If you try to get 2 years out of an MOT you will be driving illegally, get the car impounded when you are caught and also get points and a fine. Should you be involved in an accident its highly likely your insurer will refuse to repair your car.
Giving advice like this is totally out of order.
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The penalty for lack of MOT is just a fine, you don't get points. I thought the fallacy that a lack of MOT could render your insurance invalid was thoroughly debunked.
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An MOT is valid for 12 months, end of story. The expiry date is either 12 months after the test or 12 months after the expiry of the previous certificate whichever is later.
If you try to get 2 years out of an MOT you will be driving illegally, get the car impounded when you are caught and also get points and a fine. Should you be involved in an accident its highly likely your insurer will refuse to repair your car.
Giving advice like this is totally out of order.
I read the point as being that the tax was sorted pre MoT so that there was not an issue with an untaxed car in the event of MoT failure.
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I always renewed my road tax just before my MOT expired, so I could effectively get 2 years use out of an MOT certificate.
An MOT is valid for 12 months, end of story. The expiry date is either 12 months after the test or 12 months after the expiry of the previous certificate whichever is later.
If you try to get 2 years out of an MOT you will be driving illegally, get the car impounded when you are caught and also get points and a fine. Should you be involved in an accident its highly likely your insurer will refuse to repair your car.
Giving advice like this is totally out of order.
None of my anecdotal accounts (especially of arguably illegal dodges) should be interpreted as "advice" unless I say so, in which case it is still clearly up to the reader to accept or reject them as they see fit, which I believe are forum SOP's.
This was in lower surveillance pre-computer pre-OCR days. Doubt it would be a workable work-around now.
Edited by edlithgow on 27/12/2022 at 14:59
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This was in lower surveillance pre-computer pre-OCR days. Doubt it would be a workable work-around now.
So you admit driving without an MOT.
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It was a fairly pointless anecdote, but simply a case of using the same MOT certificate twice - once when freshly issued and once just before it expired.
Two years use of an MOT certificate, not a two year MOT.
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No he didn't. All he said was he could get the car taxed twice on one MOT certificate.
It's about time we let this go.
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I always renewed my road tax just before my MOT expired, so I could effectively get 2 years use out of an MOT certificate. They didn't much like it in the PO Office.
I suppose I might have called that planning ahead as well, though perhaps there are other terms for it.
That would be useful homework for a school citizenship class - think of as many one or two word terms as possible. Here's two for starters.....cheating.....illegal behaviour.....
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<< That would be useful homework for a school citizenship class - think of as many one or two word terms as possible. Here's two for starters.....cheating.....illegal behaviour... >>
I don't see any cheating here. An MoT certificate lasts for (about) 12 months, as does VED if you pay 12 months up front. It doesn't have to be the same 12 months. If you buy privately a car with a running MoT, you can retax it for 12 months with several still left on the MoT. Where's the cheating ?
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<< That would be useful homework for a school citizenship class - think of as many one or two word terms as possible. Here's two for starters.....cheating.....illegal behaviour... >>
I don't see any cheating here. An MoT certificate lasts for (about) 12 months, as does VED if you pay 12 months up front. It doesn't have to be the same 12 months. If you buy privately a car with a running MoT, you can retax it for 12 months with several still left on the MoT. Where's the cheating ?
The "cheating" relates to the poster claiming to get 2 years out of an MoT
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<< That would be useful homework for a school citizenship class - think of as many one or two word terms as possible. Here's two for starters.....cheating.....illegal behaviour... >>
I don't see any cheating here. An MoT certificate lasts for (about) 12 months, as does VED if you pay 12 months up front. It doesn't have to be the same 12 months. If you buy privately a car with a running MoT, you can retax it for 12 months with several still left on the MoT. Where's the cheating ?
The "cheating" relates to the poster claiming to get 2 years out of an MoT
Cheating and illegal behaviour.
I agree that you could tax the car twice on one MOT (possibly 3 if you do it every 6 months) but you cannot get 2 years out of an MOT that is only valid for 12 months.
As for no MOT not invalidating your insurance read this:
www.comparethemarket.com/car-insurance/content/ins.../
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I always renewed my road tax just before my MOT expired, so I could effectively get 2 years use out of an MOT certificate.
An MOT is valid for 12 months, end of story. The expiry date is either 12 months after the test or 12 months after the expiry of the previous certificate whichever is later.
If you try to get 2 years out of an MOT you will be driving illegally, get the car impounded when you are caught and also get points and a fine. Should you be involved in an accident its highly likely your insurer will refuse to repair your car.
Giving advice like this is totally out of order.
Doesn't seem to me that any advice being given.
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Doesn't seem to me that any advice being given.
That exactly; it was an anecdote.
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Doesn't seem to me that any advice being given.
That exactly; it was an anecdote.
Does that matter. The poster says he can get 2 years form an MOT. It may be legal in taiwan but its not her so its bad advice.
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Does that matter. The poster says he can get 2 years form an MOT. It may be legal in taiwan but its not her so its bad advice.
Aside from the possibility of misunderstanding what was written an anecdote is about how he was treated in the Post Office is not advice.
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I think this side discussion has run its course, can we get back to helping the OP with their problem please, although I'm not sure there's much more to add. There's been some good advice that the OP needs to follow through, hopefully they will come back and update us when they know what's happened.
In the meantime it's Boxing Day so spend time with friends and family - that's what I'm doing imminently.
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Doesn't seem to me that any advice being given.
That exactly; it was an anecdote.
Does that matter. The poster says he can get 2 years form an MOT. It may be legal in taiwan but its not her so its bad advice.
I'm not sure he is saying that. The way it has been written may be a little ambiguous, but I read it as him being able to tax the car for two years using the same MOT (i.e, getting two years use from it). That isn't the same as saying he drove the car for two years on one MOT.
Even if he was, he still is clearly not advising anyone else to do the same, therefore it is clearly not advice being given.
I'm also not convinced this is something which refers to Taiwan, partly due to the past tense wording, but also due to a post in technical referring to his 6 monthly inspection (in Taiwan) being overdue.
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