MOT Testing

lynnemcf

When I got my car MOT'd at a Local Government test centre, there was an official looking sign on the wall saying free retest only within 24 hours of original test.

Wombat

My OH took her car in for its MOT a couple of weeks ago. It failed and she was told that free retests had ended. No 24hr. rule.

I later heard on the grapevine that all MOT testing centres are "going computerised" and that the new ruling about paying for retests has to be in place by the end of March.

Nice of Mr. Blair to give us plenty of warning about this with his extensive TV and newspaper ads campaigns. Of course, they must have appeared on some private, local station and the Central Westminster free Trader because I seem to have missed them! :mad:

LesD

Isn't it time that someone merged all the informed (and sometimes uninformed) comment on MOTs on to the Motoring board?

myrnahaz

coraastbury wrote:

I took my car for its MOT yesterday and although it passed, I over heard a man being told that he could take his car back anytime within 2 weeks to be retested without having to pay for the MOT again.

It sounds like they are trying it on in my opinion.

Check the posters on the walls of the MOT garages. My MOT man just pointed out the Ts and Cs on a poster on his wall. It said that if the vehicle had failed on any of the following (it then listed about 20 very minor and very similar problems) then it could be re-done for nothing; BUT if it failed on anything else (and Mr MOT said the majority of typical failures were not on the list) then it was treated as a new MOT and charged in full again.

Also, he showed me his new computerised VOSA system, on which he has to log each car as it comes in for MOT, he then uses the document it prints out (containing details of your car as held by VOSA/DVLA) as a checklist during the MOT, and then re-enters the test details onto the computer, which then prints out the MOT certificate. So no more handwritten MOTs.