Check the lights and indicators work. Drive to garage.
Walk home.
When I get call from garage, walk to collect car and MOT certificate and pay the bill.
It's a Toyota.
Edited by madf on 31/08/2008 at 17:50
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I am like WillDeBeest. My car is looked after the whole year, not just the few days before an MOT. I drive in, watch them do it and go home with the pass certificate.
Edited by Pugugly on 31/08/2008 at 19:30
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All year round maintenance here - I do easily 35+k miles pa.
Edited by Pugugly on 31/08/2008 at 19:31
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My MOT is timed to coincide with the annual service, so both are done together.
I do clean the car inside and out before taking it in.
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I have the car serviced shortly before the MOT.
Then I take my car to an independant MOT garage, they do nothing else.
if it should fail, I'd be straight back to the garage asking them why and to sort it out FOC and to cover the costs accordingly -
I don't trust "joint ventures"
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Two "sniping" posts edited in response to complaints - please desist, there are long standing members that find this tedious - it also creates more work for mods. If you have an issue with someone's posting, report it in accordance with the site policies then we shall intervene. This is an innocuous thread of interest to most of us. Keep it civilized.
Edited by Pugugly on 31/08/2008 at 19:38
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Another vote for ongoing maintenance. I would be very disappointed and not a little surprised if any of my cars failed. A "stitch in time" and so on....
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if you have a haynes manual they have a section in the book about pre MOTchecks
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I'd be upset if any of my cars failed an MOT test on any day of the year, the test really is only a minimum standard.
Pity that vosa don't have more roadside spot checks, some right dodgy motors about, followed a newish MB a little while ago, both rear tyres were at least 50% bald, need more proper plod and fewer cash cameras.
Zookeeper..off topic, sorry, but did you ever have any joy with sorting out that prang with the foreign truck?
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Zookeeper..off topic sorry but did you ever have any joy with sorting out that prang with the foreign truck?
thanks for asking gb, i had a phone call from the people at the MIB about a month ago to tell me that they were "making progress with the claim" but its still fingers crossed at the moment, thanks for asking anyway...cheers, zoo
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thanks for asking gb i had a phone call from the people at the MIB about a month ago to tell me that they were "making progress
I've always wondered how folks got on in these cases, goodness knows i see enough cars damaged by foreign trucks on my travels, always thought it would be a major pita.
Best of luck with it though...
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I have the car serviced shortly before the MOT.
That's great if the garage does old fashioned servicing, but modern "servicing", per manufacturers schedule, is generally little more than oil and filter change, and a few visual checks.
I fell foul of that on daughter's SEAT when the car was serviced and then MOT's by the dealer, only to fail on uneven rear brake application. The fix was to clean and lubricate them - but that's not part of modern servicing, so it's an extra (chargeable) job.
What's worrying, assuming this is a real fault, is that without the MOT brake test the dealer would have sent the car out as "serviced" but with brakes that were bad enough to fail the MOT.
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What's worrying assuming this is a real fault is that without the MOT brake test the dealer would have sent the car out as "serviced" but with brakes that were bad enough to fail the MOT.
but you said earlier in the post that the dealers service didnt include the brakes?
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but you said earlier in the post that the dealers service didnt include the brakes?
I think most people would assume that if you take a car to a main dealer (or indeed any garage) for an annual service, then a brake "fault" sufficient to cause MOT failure, would be noted and reported.
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