New cars not MOT'd for 4 years?

[james butler]

i thought it had dropped from 3 to 2 years?

 

[james butler]

i have seen many a car fail on their first MOT
the mk1 ford focus used to be common for broken coil springs
another common failure or at least advisory for worn tyres

 

[Ton-up]

There is a rumour, right or wrong, I dont know, that the UK is going to go like the rest of Europe and Ireland and shut down all MOT centres. They will then have MOT's only be available at government run centres. All legislation being brought in is to make us drive cars owned and leased by car manufacturers, no privatly owned cars, No pattern parts will be available, etc, etc.

 

[wookie]

Using that logic, given that almost every new car comes with Bluetooth now, why do you still see idiots in flash cars with a mobile phone glued to their ear?
Oh yes, because they're arrogant ar53h0135.

...and the day my MOT place starts charging £54, I'll be going elsewhere.

Totally agree with you about the mobile users, I was quoting the maximum official price for a MOT as listed on the DVLA website, like you I have never paid that for a MOT but my point still stands if you can't afford a £54 test once a year then you can't afford a car.

 

[Wedg1e]

my point still stands if you can't afford a £54 test once a year then you can't afford a car.

Of course, and I wasn't disputing the thrust of your meat, as it were
Trouble is, when all the advertising sells cars as gonad-boosting lifestyle accessories, people are going to treat them as such... like a new phone: love it till you get bored then change it.
Not quite so easy to do with a £20K car though so next best thing, spend the money on another toy instead of maintaining the car... or am I just cynical

 

[wookie]

You're cynical..... but also correct, such is modern life

 

[brightspark]

The last statistic I heard was that a quarter of all cars having their first MOT after 3 years were failing it, that alone should be reason enough to reduce the time rather than extend it.

Even though some were failing on very basic items such as wipers failing to clear the screen and given that a lot of people driving nowadays won't ever check their tyre condition and brake pads etc then they should be reducing the time to first test.

At the end of the day an MOT test is £54.85, if you can afford to buy a new car then surely you can afford that every year.

54quid choke cough i only pay 30 quid and they generaly just do it when i turn up

 

[Cobbler]

Paid £27 yesterday. Cheapest I've seen.

 

[owas]

Heres the front tyre on a 4 year old juke parked in my works car park, not sure whos it is.

 

[angellonewolf]

that fine i cant see any metal coming through

 

[Kayos]

20,000 miles left in that

I should have known you would have been frivolous with wasting good tyres

 

[anto]

£38 (I think) it is over here in NI at the aforementioned Govt MOT centre.
Some of the MOT Testers can be "Little Hitlers" at times but on the whole they are fair enough.
Any work that is required for it to pass is done either by yourself or at a garage/ mechanic.
MOT Centre is purely for testing.

We do have one comical situation in that cars with HIDs lights must have washers and self levellers (or sports suspension). No exceptions despite the likes of the Mitsubishi Evo coming with factory fit HIDs but no washers. Owners have had to "T" into the washer jets and route some piping to the headlights with some hilarious looking efforts that barely wet the headlight but that the MOT tester is obliged to pass lol
I believe in England/ Wales/ Scotland that there were exceptions made to avoid this.

 

[fixerupper]

Here we have a every two year KTEO test and a yearly emissions test ...it used to be done only at government run test stations but in the last few years new IKTEO ( the I is for independent ) testing station have opened up and it seems to work , they have the usual kit to test brakes , and give the suspension a stress they are well run and the guys seem to know their stuff but not over the top ,and tell you if anything is borderline .. It takes about 20 mins you can view what they do from a lounge area with a coffee....

 

[Wedg1e]

Heres the front tyre on a 4 year old juke parked in my works car park, not sure whos it is.

You call that worn? I did this to my bike's rear tyre in the Alps...

 

[owas]

You call that worn? I did this to my bike's rear tyre in the Alps...

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But did you carry on using it on your daily driver?
Its the new girl in the offices, all 4 tyres have completely different tread somehow, 1 rear looks new, other side half worn, the other front looks barely legal.

 

[wookie]

You call that worn? I did this to my bike's rear tyre in the Alps...

I'll wager you had a big silly grin on your face riding your bike that day, at least until you saw the state of that tyre.

 

[Wedg1e]

I'll wager you had a big silly grin on your face riding your bike that day, at least until you saw the state of that tyre.

Yeah, every day I'd look at it in the morning and think "if I spot a tyre place today I must get that changed"; go out for a few hours thrashing then get back to the hotel and think "dammit, I must sort that tyre tomorrow...".
Somehow never did spot any tyre places; my mate on his ZZR14 started flashing me to pull over once he spotted a white patch that was getting bigger by the minute.
Turned into an expensive do; I called my breakdown people who sent a recovery truck to get me to the next town but at lunchtime on a Saturday in Austria all bike shops and tyre places close. Luckily I had a determined recovery bloke who actually drove into Switzerland (which was still open ) to find me a tyre, knew a bloke with a tyre bay in his garage at home and drove me to the cashpoint to get enough Euros to cover the tyre and all the backhanders I felt were due - so about 350 Euro for a £120 tyre. Which, not being the strictly correct one for the bike wore out in 2700 (admittedly very grippy) miles, to add insult to injury.
Moral of the story, if your back tyre's already done 2000 miles and you're about to go and do another 2000 miles around Europe, probably best to fit a new one before you set off

 

[Wedg1e]

But did you carry on using it on your daily driver?
Its the new girl in the offices, all 4 tyres have completely different tread somehow, 1 rear looks new, other side half worn, the other front looks barely legal.

Sorry, I skim read that and all I saw was 'new girl...' and 'barely legal'

Hell this way, is it...?

 

[owas]

Inevitable really .. still driving it