Why would a main dealership carry out an MOT six months before it was due ?

Mercdriver

Do you also get an echo every time?

mcpitman

Deleted_User said:

I don’t think I’ve ever had to replace discs or pads in 30 years of motoring. I never believe them when they say they could do with replacing. Let the Mot fail then first. 

I do around 14000 a year and drive like a chauffeur so my tyres last well too. 

You are either very lucky or very daft, not sure which.
Waiting until your brakes are classed as dangerous (failing an MOT) is daft.
"Driving like a chauffeur" doesn't mean you'll never need to brake quickly.

Martin_the_Unjust

Deleted_User said:

I don’t think I’ve ever had to replace discs or pads in 30 years of motoring. I never believe them when they say they could do with replacing. Let the Mot fail then first. 

I do around 14000 a year and drive like a chauffeur so my tyres last well too. 

drive like a chauffeur? Trust me, you don't if you wait till an mot fail before replacing pads and/or discs

AdrianC

I think you're all being jolly unfair. IDGWIAMT is absolutely right.

I'm sure all chauffeurs drive around for 11 and a bit months on brakes that are metal-on-metal giving insufficient actual retardation to pass the low MOT standard.

Oh, sorry. I'm thinking of the other professionals at the wheel of large saloons... Minicab drivers...

Bonniepurple

I’ve just bought a replacement car and I asked the dealer for a fresh MOT on it.  The current one runs until September, but I’d rather have a fresh one just in case there’s any surprises hidden.  

Mutton_Geoff

Deleted_User said:

I don’t think I’ve ever had to replace discs or pads in 30 years of motoring. I never believe them when they say they could do with replacing. Let the Mot fail then first. 

I do around 14000 a year and drive like a chauffeur so my tyres last well too. 

Worrying that we share the roads with people that use the MOT test as a guide to safely maintaining their cars.

AdrianC

Mutton_Geoff said:

Worrying that we share the roads with people that use the MOT test as a guide to safely maintaining their cars.

That's a very sizable swathe of the motoring public.

How often do we have people on here complaining that the MOT has just cost them many hundreds, perhaps more than the car's value, and it's all soooooo unfair and unreasonable...?

treeroy

In theory, you could drive 420,000 miles (30 years of 14k) just using engine braking and you would not need to replace the pads or discs.

Nodding_Donkey

Andyjflet said:

Frankly your distrust is a bit insulting,

Newsflash: Not many people trust car dealers

They're not know as Car Stealers for no reason.

m0bov

nick74 said:

Yes, when buying a 2.5 year old car from a main dealer once I got them to put a years MOT on it. Mainly to save me the hassle of taking it back for an MOT six months later.

Are you sure they post date it, I was told they could'nt.