MSE News: Supermarkets to cut petrol prices

Flyboy152

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

All these petrol threads where people are trying to skrimp to save 3p on petrol is precisely why the Govt was wrong in the first place to consider changing the MOT to 24 months. God knows how many unroadworthy cars there would have been around as the owners only think the bald tyres need changing at MOT time. After all a couple of tyres pays for a lot of booze and fags.

Make it every 6 months imo if the car is over 10 years old, its the sort of car where people are likely to neglect essential maintenance.

I wholeheartedly agree and it beggars belief that they think a car built before nineteen sixty is going be even safer.

aldredd

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I wholeheartedly agree and it beggars belief that they think a car built before nineteen sixty is going be even safer.

On the one hand, I do agree - but on the other it pains me to pay 55 quid a year for someone to confirm that, yes, my car is safe to drive, as I do try & look after the car, and have it serviced etc regularly.

Of course, not everyone does, so it remains a necessity.
Plus, the last car I bought came with lifetime-of-ownership MOT tests free :oD :money: