Car failed MOT after pre-check

FlorayG

Oh, well, he's just sent me the invoice for the parts I need and a labour estimate and he's put "MOT free of charge" so that's OK then, he obviously realised he was in the wrong there 

Aylesbury_Duck

FlorayG said:

I didn't need to - he told me about it the last time the car was in for repairs a few weeks ago so he knew they were leaking. It seems he didn't think that was valid for MOT, my argument would be if you can't do a 'real' MOT pre-check why do you offer it?

Perhaps you need to find a new garage.

born_again

FlorayG said:

Oh, well, he's just sent me the invoice for the parts I need and a labour estimate and he's put "MOT free of charge" so that's OK then, he obviously realised he was in the wrong there 

If they are sending it back to same MOT tester, then a retest within a certain time frame can be free....

TBF, your asking a non MOT tester to check to see if it will pass. They may think it is OK, abut tester does not. 

FlorayG

born_again said:

FlorayG said:

Oh, well, he's just sent me the invoice for the parts I need and a labour estimate and he's put "MOT free of charge" so that's OK then, he obviously realised he was in the wrong there 

If they are sending it back to same MOT tester, then a retest within a certain time frame can be free....

TBF, your asking a non MOT tester to check to see if it will pass. They may think it is OK, abut tester does not. 

MOT free, not retest free
I haven't paid for the fail

Arunmor

With older cars it is a good idea to get the MOT done a month before it is due and then decide whether it is worth the expense or not of getting the works done.  Looks like you are getting to that point.

FlorayG

Arunmor said:

With older cars it is a good idea to get the MOT done a month before it is due and then decide whether it is worth the expense or not of getting the works done.  Looks like you are getting to that point.

Yes I do know this obviously. Anyway it's a classic and now worth a lot more than I paid for it so that's not relevant

Aylesbury_Duck

FlorayG said:

Arunmor said:

With older cars it is a good idea to get the MOT done a month before it is due and then decide whether it is worth the expense or not of getting the works done.  Looks like you are getting to that point.

Yes I do know this obviously. Anyway it's a classic and now worth a lot more than I paid for it so that's not relevant

It wasn't that obvious, because in your opening post you said you'd been unexpectedly left without a car for a week last time and it happened "yet again" this year.  It was a reasonable assumption that it failed its MOT close to the expiry date, even if that wasn't the case.