No longer 13 month MOT?

june1970_2

you can only post date your mot if it is within 28 days and no you do nothave to show your old mot.

mrbadexample

seftonsun wrote: »

I suggest the OP should go back to the issuing garage and enquire why the expiry date was not 12 months from date of old certificate expiry. Something seems amiss here to me.

Sadly, this won't help. The only way the expiry date can now be changed is through your local VOSA office. 08706060440 is the general enquiry line, but as that's an 0870 number, I wouldn't advise calling it. :rolleyes: Where do you live?

gord115

Found out what the problem was. I had the car tested on the 3rd of sept when the MOT ran out on the 3rd of oct.So it was a day early and the computer automaticallly makes it 1 year after that date(the same as if I had taken the car say 3 month early)
But if I had taken the car from the 4th onwards it would have automatically have added 1 year to the expiry date so the MOT would expire 3rd oct 2008. Hope this makes sense. So one day has cost me a months MOT.
I wont make that mistake again.

LandyAndy

seftonsun wrote: »

If your old MOT is one of the new computerised certificates, which it should be as they have been issuing them for nearly 2 years now, but due to phasing you may be right on the end of the changeover period, then the system automatically dates the expiry date of the new certificate as 12 months from the expiry date of the old certificate. You do not need the old certificate or the V5 Registration Document.

This is how the DVLA know which cars are MOT'd or not and also allows them to issue your new Road Fund Licence on line without you having to produce your documents, including the MOT certificate.

I suggest the OP should go back to the issuing garage and enquire why the expiry date was not 12 months from date of old certificate expiry. Something seems amiss here to me.

Correct. I've just done it and when I showed the garage my old MOT they said 'Oh, we don't need that anymore to give you an MOT from the expiry date of the old one'