M.O.T. roulette - place your bets

[Drago]

Garage called. Volvo ready AM tomorrow.

 

[briantrumpet]

My 2003 Nissan Almera tomorrow... probs only done about 1000 miles this year... fingers crossed.

Hurrah. Passed, nothing to do. Now I can park it up for the next few months, haha.

 

[briantrumpet]

Hurrah. Passed, nothing to do. Now I can park it up for the next few months, haha.

Just checked back, and it's done a total of 2755 miles total in the last three years.

 

[Drago]

Volvo back.

New tyres first thing, then a good clean and back in the carcoon for it until I'm back from me hols.

 

[DCLane]

Son no. 2's, and my old, Tepee gets an annual MOT today. We'll see what the tester thinks ...

 

[fossyant]

I 'think' the Aygo my son has been repairing, finally get's a re-test this week - failed on emissions, so new cat and sensors fitted. Waiting list is a couple of weeks to get booked in.

 

[DCLane]

Tepee failed on welding needed on rear suspension mount - all done and a new certificate issued. That's the Tepee still on the road despite 173,000 miles, a previous careless old lady owner and my use of it as a race transport / support wagon.

It had the same advisory as last year for a minor oil leak, but this year they found the bonnet strut which was an advisory last year.

 

[briantrumpet]

I 'think' the Aygo my son has been repairing, finally get's a re-test this week - failed on emissions, so new cat and sensors fitted. Waiting list is a couple of weeks to get booked in.

It was four weeks at my garage. Not sure why 'waiting lists for MOTs' is a thing now. Maybe it's since it's been on the NHS.

 

[fossyant]

I 'think' the Aygo my son has been repairing, finally get's a re-test this week - failed on emissions, so new cat and sensors fitted. Waiting list is a couple of weeks to get booked in.

Retested - failed on emissions again and a few other things, despite the new cat. Time to bite the bullet and scrap it. Not going to be worth trying to further get this thing running.

 

[Jameshow]

Tepee failed on welding needed on rear suspension mount - all done and a new certificate issued. That's the Tepee still on the road despite 173,000 miles, a previous careless old lady owner and my use of it as a race transport / support wagon.

It had the same advisory as last year for a minor oil leak, but this year they found the bonnet strut which was an advisory last year.

Racing a tepee that's pretty desperate!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 28th

SWMBO's Yaris hybrid, went for its MOT test this morning *
It made of a 'full house' of PASS certificates for us

'Free' Corsa; passed 4th September (& still covered less than 450 miles since then!!)
My Kodiaq; passed 3rd March, & has covered 508 miles since then (seemingly a lot more than it normally would!!)

SWMBO's old Q3, sold in January, passed its last test with us, I had to rermind myself when it the test had happemned (April), but is now showing on DVLA as expired

* I am surprised by how few miles it's actually covered between tests, as she seems to use it a lot more!!
2024 - 2025; 5,993miles
2023 - 2024; 5,352miles

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I might have featured this elsewhere, but I agree with Peter Galillee, in this old issue of Land Rover Owner magazine (back in the days, after selling my 110CSW, I still bought it)

 

[DCLane]

@Richard A Thackeray - it's a concern and, because they now don't have MOT's, it'd be easier to alter the legislation that 40+ year-old cars can't be used for commuting/business and limit their mileage.

I'd quite happily consider an older car as a run-a-bout, and have used one previously for this. I'm hoping they don't go a step further and basically outlaw them. Regular MOT's would solve the issue so I don't know why they removed it.

 

[Alex321]

@Richard A Thackeray - it's a concern and, because they now don't have MOT's, it'd be easier to alter the legislation that 40+ year-old cars can't be used for commuting/business and limit their mileage.

I don't understand why that would make it easier to limit their usage???

If they want to legislate to prevent old cars being used for commuting/business, or limit their total annual mileage, they can do so regardless of whether those vehicles need an MOT or not.

I'd quite happily consider an older car as a run-a-bout, and have used one previously for this. I'm hoping they don't go a step further and basically outlaw them. Regular MOT's would solve the issue so I don't know why they removed it.

I don't understand why the requirement would be removed for vehicles young enough to have needed one when produced, beyond the fact that regulations have changed a lot, and they need too many exceptions.

But I really don't understand how removing that requirement makes any difference to other legislation about them.