MOT 10 Day Limit

markudman

The Garage has the choice to change or not, nothing to do with the government,
Have you agreed on a price?
if they appreciate your custom they will not charge you, if they do charge and your unhappy about it, find another garage that do appreciate your custom,
Simples

flashg67

Retest is compulsory after 10 days, but the garage can decide whether they charge or not. Garage I worked at offered free retests as standard to pull in customers.

aardvaak

agrinnall wrote: »

Have you been in hibernation for the last couple of months? I suggest you take a look at a few more threads and you'll soon see it's by no means an isolated incident.

As I have no idea what it means and have not seen it anywhere else - What does it !!!8217; mean?

AndyMc.....

aardvaak wrote: »

As I have no idea what it means and have not seen it anywhere else - What does it !!!8217; mean?

A glitch in the system.

aardvaak

AndyMc..... wrote: »

A glitch in the system.

Thank you...................why not just say that?

facade

aardvaak wrote: »

Thank you...................why not just say that?

It is caused by the forum's reaction to the smart punctuation used by Apple, who for some reason can't just send the code for an apostrophe like a "normal" machine.

CardinalWolsey

I'd always assumed that garages did retests for free if they did the repair work because they didn't actually then need to do anything for the MOT other than update the system with a pass - or are there elements of the MOT that have to be done on a retest regardless of what the original failure was for?

Joe_Horner

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

I'd always assumed that garages did retests for free if they did the repair work because they didn't actually then need to do anything for the MOT other than update the system with a pass - or are there elements of the MOT that have to be done on a retest regardless of what the original failure was for?

Since computerisation the car had to be logged on to the test computer in order to issue the pass. If that's done within the "free test" criteria then the garage doesn't get billed by DVSA for the retest. If it goes outside the free criteria (either because of time or the nature of the work) then the garage will have to psy DVSA for the test slot.

Also, if it's meant to be a full retest, the car will have to stay logged in for roughly the time a full test would take or risk questions from DVSA - if they say it's a full tedt and you finish it in 3 minutes they know you haven't done a full test! That not only costs a test slot, it prevents you logging another car onto the system for that test lane so potentially costs you a fulll test fee on top of the slot fee to DVLA.

Raxiel

facade wrote: »

It is caused by the forum's reaction to the smart punctuation used by Apple, who for some reason can't just send the code for an apostrophe like a "normal" machine.

The forum used to be able to interpret the code correctly, but - allegedly to reduce spam - the powers that be adjusted the forum software a couple of months ago to restrict the uni-code characters it would accept. This had the side effect of rendering not only new posts from iDevices unintelligible, but every single historic post that contained smart punctuation. Given it doesn't seem to have made a dent in the amount of spam, I'd say that choice is overdue a rollback, but they may be waiting until the upcoming (https) changes.

markudman

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Since computerisation the car had to be logged on to the test computer in order to issue the pass. If that's done within the "free test" criteria then the garage doesn't get billed by DVSA for the retest. If it goes outside the free criteria (either because of time or the nature of the work) then the garage will have to psy DVSA for the test slot.

Also, if it's meant to be a full retest, the car will have to stay logged in for roughly the time a full test would take or risk questions from DVSA - if they say it's a full tedt and you finish it in 3 minutes they know you haven't done a full test! That not only costs a test slot, it prevents you logging another car onto the system for that test lane so potentially costs you a fulll test fee on top of the slot fee to DVLA.

that's right the MOT slot is about £1.50, and whatever their hours labour is, thats if the garage has back to back MOT's and only one tester, if they have 2 Testers then one logs on to the current test and the other to the retest and goes and have a cup of tea LOL