Car dealer lied about MOT

Hayles81

Can anyone help please.
We bought a car from a local used car dealer last summer. The dealer told us they would give the car a service and new MOT before collection. I knew we got the car in early August so this evening I checked the DVLA website to find out the exact date in August the MOT would expire only to discover the MOT expired in April. I'm horrified. I've just found the original Sales Order Form/Contract and it states under "Additional Work" new MOT & new service, signed by dealership on 2/8/16.
Can anyone help me with my rights? And how we should proceed from here? I'm due to have a baby later this week, and I'm so devastated to find out our car is not roadworthy. Thank you

AndyMc.....

Hayles81 wrote: »

Can anyone help please.
We bought a car from a local used car dealer last summer. The dealer told us they would give the car a service and new MOT before collection. I knew we got the car in early August so this evening I checked the DVLA website to find out the exact date in August the MOT would expire only to discover the MOT expired in April. I'm horrified. I've just found the original Sales Order Form/Contract and it states under "Additional Work" new MOT & new service, signed by dealership on 2/8/16.
Can anyone help me with my rights? And how we should proceed from here? I'm due to have a baby later this week, and I'm so devastated to find out our car is not roadworthy. Thank you

Take it for an mot before you start going on about it being unroadworthy.

Cuddy85

Isn't MOT being done once a year? How would they do it in August if it was done in April same year? Didn't you get an MOT certificate to check the date?

[Deleted User]

As above take it for an MOT now.

The time to check the paperwork would have been when you bought the car not a year later.

[Deleted User]

Cuddy85 wrote: »

Isn't MOT being done once a year? How would they do it in August if it was done in April same year? Didn't you get an MOT certificate to check the date?

You can MOT a car every day if you wanted to.

debtdebt

1. Due to have a baby this week. Not relevant.
2. "Car not being roadworthy" - not true.

The onus was and still is on you to make sure your car is MOT'd. The time to check the MOT had been done was at the time of collection when you bought the car.

What can you do? If the dealer is local, take the car back and get them to MOT the car. Be pre warned though that the car may not pass if parts have failed between you buying the car and now. This isn't the dealer's fault.

What's your loss? The MOT fee of around £54?

Norman_Castle

If the car was moted last April and you bought it in August you've lost 4 months MOT. Your "new" mot was a recent mot with presumably near zero miles in those four months so your actual losses are very small.

Not having a current MOT certificate doesn't make it unroadworthy.

AdrianC

debtdebt wrote: »

What's your loss? The MOT fee of around £54?

They thought the MOT was August. It was actually April - four months earlier - so the loss is 1/3 of the MOT fee.

Did you not get an MOT certificate with the car, OP?

Money_maker

OP says the MOT expired in april, not that it got a new one in april. I would suggest phoning the dealer and askin him before panicking and registering to an online forum to ask what to do. Ring the dealer!

LandyAndy

Money_maker wrote: »

OP says the MOT expired in april, not that it got a new one in april. I would suggest phoning the dealer and askin him before panicking and registering to an online forum to ask what to do. Ring the dealer!

Presumably because it got a new MoT the previous April, before she bought it.

AdrianC

Quite.

MOT - April 2016
Car bought - August 2016
MOT expired - April 2017
Now - June 2017
OP thought MOT expired - August 2017

I think they'd have remembered taking their car for an MOT they didn't think it needed in April 2017.

But it's very quick and easy to check...
https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/