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Is there anyway you can MOT your car before the day on your certificate? When I sell my car there will only be just less than 3 months left. I feel I will make the money back and sell the car easier if it has a full MOT.
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You can renew your MOT at any time. If you do it a month before the expiry date you then have 13 months MOT but sooner than that you will loose your existing MOT and just get 12 months.
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My Local Garage used to I THINK they may still do
as long as you have your old one with you, and specifically ask i dont see it been a issue, but you will have to ring a test centre and find out for sure.
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Thanks for that one other question has anyone used a council run bus depot for an MOT test? I remember reading that they had to offer the public mots, are they ok about it or is it just one of those things on the books and aren't too keen about doing them?
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There are several MOT only places, there is one near me it is not council run they just don't do repairs. I sometimes wonder if though if you take a banger to a repair/MOT place they will let some things go as they want work on other bits? Where as a an MOT only has no interest what ever so they will do everything by the book.
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My local council advertise MOT's for the public at their motor repair depot.
I always take my vehicles there, they are strict to the book but fair, which is all I want from an MOT.
I had my Passat tested there last week, they failed it on a headlight beam out of focus.
The tester suggested that the headlight bulb may not have been fitted properly & that although he was not allowed to touch it, if I wanted to check it there & then & cure the fault he would then pass it straight away.
He was dead right, & by re-seating the bulb the fault was cured & I was on my way with a new ticket, & all for £40 instead of the recomended price of nearly £55.
They don't do repairs & so have no axe to grind in finding problems.
Some parts of the MOT test are at the testers discretion & the difference between pass & failure is marginal. If their garage is short of work it may just swing the testers decision towards failure.
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My daughter took her car to what she thought was a local authority MOT testing station.
They've now been privatised!
She felt lucky to get away with a couple of very expensive wiper blades, but at a (slightly) lower cost than a re-test elsewhere!
Be careful out there.
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You are allowed to take the vehicle away & get your own repairs done for certain failure items. The vehicle has to be returned to the original testing station before the end of the next working day for a free re-test.
Wiper blades are one such failure covered.
Here are the rules from VOSA :- www.vosa.gov.uk/vosacorp/newsandevents/pressreleas...m
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Free Retests - within 10 working days.
Discount : all our Customers will receive a discount on our Base Test Fee.
See Just MOTs: tinyurl.com/orsejx
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Colchester Fire and Rescue do MoTs;our local Co-op truck maintenance depot does them as well.
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Just seen this on that site...
''My parking brake is electrically operated. How will this affect the MOT?
The MOT test requires that on vehicles used on or after 1 January 1968, the parking brake must be capable of being maintained in operation by direct mechanical action only. Electrically operated or hydraulic systems are not acceptable unless they can be held on by direct mechanical means.''
Does that mean (if correct... ill check tomorrow) all the current crop of electric handbraked cars will fail the 1st, (and only?) MOT?
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Swis nope because I assume that they meet all the requirements of VOSA otherwise they would not have even allowed to be registered? More likely that part of the MOT will be rewritten.
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On the odd occasions when I come to sell a car I advertise that it will be MOTed when the sale is agreed so that the buyer has a full ticket. Inevitably a purchaser will want to negotiate the price down, so this can become a negotiation point - a lower price is possible if you take the car with its current MOT, which on average is going to be six months or so. So you get the benefit of advertising that the car will have a full MOT which attracts more potential buyers, and the buyer gets the lower price they want too. I have never had to MOT a car I have sold yet.
MGs
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''My parking brake is electrically operated. How will this affect the MOT? The MOT test requires that on vehicles used on or after 1 January 1968 the parking brake must be capable of being maintained in operation by direct mechanical action only. Electrically operated or hydraulic systems are not acceptable unless they can be held on by direct mechanical means.'' Does that mean (if correct... ill check tomorrow) all the current crop of electric handbraked cars will fail the 1st (and only?) MOT?
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I know of someone who took his classic 1965 Ford Galaxie convertible in for an MOT and it failed because it was fitted with lap belts. Never had a problem with it before. The tester said it had to be fitted with lap and diagonal belts before he would pass it, as it was illegal and shouldn't be on the road. If that is the case then all cars with lap belts fitted in the rear are illegal too.
Another one. Front indicator lights should be amber. So every Mk.3 Cortina was illegal too.
VOSA. We'll make it up as we go along.
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hope this is the right place to put this,
last week i took my car to a mot test centre while thay were doing the emmision test thay blown the engine and failed the car,and asked me to move i said no, so thay pushed the car outside and paked it on the road,thay also gave me a list of other items that it had failed on ie hand brake needs tighting,numberplate bulb. after a phone call to there area manager he told me that thay were not going to pay for the damege to my car now £700,
well after a week and and the car in another garage had all work done went for another mot and failed on rear lights night being the right colour,headlights not alined rear brake pipes corroded, rear tyre below legal limit,and a few other things.
surly this should have been picked up on the first mot and not the second,
so if anyone can give me some advice on what to do next i like to hear from you
ps i have allready been to trading standards
thanks
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hope this is the right place to put this last week i took my car to a mot test centre while thay were doing the emmision test thay blown the engine
Would it be a diesel by any chance?
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>>failed on rear lights night being the right colour,
This is subjective - what one tester thinks is OK, another might fail.
>>headlights not alined
This is something you can check, as it uses a tester. However, I wouldn't get too wound up about this point, because it should only be a moments work to rectify.
>>rear brake pipes corroded
Again, this is subjective, and is up to the opinion of the tester.
>>rear tyre below legal limit
You can measure this yourself. However, if your tyres are this close to the limit that you need sensitive measuring equpment, then, it is time (many would say long overdue) to replace the tyre
>>and a few other things.
Like what?
From what you've said, I don't think you have too much to complain about - it seems like the first MOT was a little bit lax, and the second, a bit stricter, that's all. Many aspects of the MOT do come down to the opinion of the tester, and, being human, testers vary in what they view as a point worthy of failure.
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I think what he is complaining about is his wrecked engine, depending on which post I am reading. I wouldn't have thought £700 would be anywhere near the repair cost!
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I thought that diesels had a limiter on them which would prevent the engine being revved too high? If thats the case either the limiter has been removed, or the engine was knackered before it was tested... either way could be difficult to get anything back...
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MOT results are "in the opinion of the tester" if you think an MOT was given incorrectly, you can contact VOSA. If you think one should have been given, but wasn't then you can't.
All MOT stations should have signs issued by VOSA in the waiting area telling you to make sure your engine is in good condition and capable of being revved hard in the emission test.
I don't think you have much of a complaint.
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>>If you think one should have been given, but wasn't then you can't.
You *can* appeal an MOT result with VOSA either way, pass or fail.
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you can refuse to test a diesel if you think the limiter has been messed with there will also be a notice up to advise you that your diesel engine must be in sound condition prior to the smoke test and all timing belts etc must be tip top or its caveat umpar time again
ive had a fair few petrols boil over in my time mind ,thats why i take them and stay with them for the mot in case they are left running as the testers go for a brew get distracted etc,its usually the only time apart from a wet bank holiday monday in a traffic jam that fans ever come on
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The certificate is valid for 12 months from the date of issue, except when a vehicle is taken for test in the month before the expiry date of its current certificate. In this case, if it passes the test, and if the current certificate is produced, the new certificate will be dated 12 months from the expiry date of the current certificate.
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I think that the current certificate does not have to be produced (I didn't on Tuesday) as 'The Computer' has the dates in it and knows if the test is being done within the 30 day window.
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I think that the current certificate does not have to be produced ........
I admit my information was out-of-date.
Here's what Directgov say. (I wasn't aware of the rider in the second paragraph.)
"If the vehicle is tested within the calendar month prior to when the MOT is due, the test certificate will run from the date of the test to one year after the expiry date of the current certificate. For example, if the current certificate was due to expire on 1 April 2007, and the vehicle was presented on or after 2 March 2007, the certificate would run from the test date until 1 April 2008.
The same rule would also apply when the vehicle is taken in within a calendar month of its first MOT. In this case, the vehicle owner would need to present their registration document.
If the vehicle is tested earlier than one month before its due date, the MOT will only run for twelve months."
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