Shock, 15 year old car passes MOT with just 2 advisories

[Felly Magic]

Well feck me sideways with a wet fish, I was expecting OMFGOVERTHEBRIDGENESS for my crusty old Skoda Felicia, but NO, the damn thing went and passed its MOT, with comments from the tester that he's seen a lot newer cars crustier, and he'd just failed a car 10 years it's junior, Happy days, the only thing he could have failed it on was a blown brake light bulb, but he bunged a new un in. All in all £37, so happy enough

[Jim Bell]

Result. All old cars r gr9.

[Felly Magic]

That is the 2nd time in the 4 and a bit years I've had it that it's gone through the MOT needing nothing. 

[Station]

I've had one car pass in my 17 years old drivin' 'n' motin', that's 1 in about 40 - 50 MOTs (or however many cars I've MOT'd).

[Felly Magic]

This car is proving that it's pure Autoshite, it gets the minimal spent on it, and it's used for a 120 mile round trip commute, it's even grey! (or greenyblue depending on the light). Why spunk a zillion pounds a month on a modern POS on the never never, that once the warranty fucks off will wallet rape you? So far this year its had £100 spent on it, which was just a service and MOT, I'd call that fairly cheap motoring to be fair

[EssDeeWon]

My cars always pass and im always surprised when people are shocked when their car passes.

 

All I do is look after them between MOT's, replace what needs replacing and service annually so I have no worries on MOT day. My cars are always 12+ years old. Even my old 1979 SD1 used to pass every year, just looked after it and kept on top of things, simples!

[PiperCub]

Always make a real effort at getting mine through first time, there's usually some smug, sanctimonious cretin sneering at your 'Old crap' while basking in the glory of their 'nice new car' so it's a giant middle finger to them and ramant, pointless consumerism when the 'old crap' flies through (even funnier when their car fails). 

 

Got a few disgruntled look a few months back when my ratty looking Eunos went through for the fourth year in a row with no advisories.

[spike60]

Both my 14 year old cars passed with no advisories. I generally keep an eye on them and hopefully on top of little things that crop up. Preparation was headlight adjuster for Vw shite and handbrake adjustment for Bmw shite.

It puzzles me on the amount of cars that fail on tyres and lights etc, easy stuff that affect your day to safety and can get you fines and points if you get stopped.

[Felly Magic]

The car he failed was a 5 year old Merc owned by a giffer. the thing is right, it gets treated like shite, only gets fixed when something finally falls off, and it went 20k between oil changes (oops), but still passed. The bulb must have blown on the way to the test centre, as it was working before I left, these things happen I suppose, but both me and the Mrs were expecting it to fail on the galloping rust it's now getting, but remarkably its solid as a rock in all the vital MOT worthy places. My bodge of the breather pipe with gaffer tape sorted the rough running it had, which I think was also stopping the auto choke working on it

[PiperCub]

According to my cousin who's a MoT tester, it is truly remarkable how many things have' just happened' on the way to the test garage. Like worn out tyres - they were fine yesterday...........

[DodgyBastard]

My 20 year old Carlton that i paid £250 passed recently with a couple of small advisories. I wish i could say the same for previous sub £300 cars I've had the misfortune of owning...

[laser wheels]

Now I think about it I've never actually kept a car long enough to get it MOTed. Even the Metro was sold with about 8 hours left on it's ticket.

 

It's something I really need to experience!

[Felly Magic]

The thing is right, both myself and family members have owned much newer shite, and when my mum's previous Fiesta (54 plate) hit its first MOT it needed a new steering rack! It had only done about 14k at the time, and every year that bastard twatting Fabia was always a small fortune at MOT time. This old warhorse has been relatively cheap to fix, even when it failed an MOT

[retrogeezer]

My old Bluebird always sailed through for the 4 MOT's I had done it and my Escort has passed every year since 2010 and only failed that year on 'rusty brake ferrule's.

 

The Mondeo only failed one year on a leaking brake pressure valve as well....happy days! 

[DVee8]

I have the disastra in at 10am tomorrow.4th mot in my hands all passed.

[forddeliveryboy]

Those old Felicias are real Skodas from the end of the Soviet era, not the soft modern VW things with electronics and hundreds of sensors, blackboxes and so on. WIth a 1.9 diesel in, a Fel estate makes for very cheap transport, especially if you've a supply of used veg oil.

 

Here's a diesel estate with a long test and just 22k on the clock which went for a little over £500. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skoda-Falicia-Estate-19-diesel-/111359067110?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19ed8483e6&nma=true&si=5QBcLu6aOWpnFY4ERmTcoD58UJw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[Lacquer Peel]

Felicia diesel isn't good for veg, I'm sure all of them are fitted with Lucas injection pumps.

It ranks as one of the most miserable cars I've driven too, worse than a Mk3 Astra.

[forddeliveryboy]

 

Too right. It didn't stop me from running a Lucas pumped 2.1 PSA on 75% veg through a cold winter, wasn't a problem.

[Felly Magic]

Felicia diesels don't even like supermarket derv, I know I ran one for a couple of years, and the fuel filters were always clogging up. This is an aged 1.3 OHV with a leaky head gasket, but it still plods on & on

[Partridge]

MOAR PICHAS OF SKODER OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN

[Felly Magic]

Too dark atm, plus the mrs will be taking it to work at OMFG 5am in the morning

[John F]

My 20-year old Calibra just passed its 8th MoT in my ownership with an advisory on a slightly blowing back box... new one now fitted for £45.

 

In fact, including its purchase price & all consumables & spares required during that time, it's cost me less than £2k to own for 9 years of motoring. And as an un-barried, undamaged and comparatively low mileage early V6, it's probably worth* around £1500 if I wanted to sell it.

 

Which I don't.

[Partridge]

What was the other advisory anyway? "DRIVER IS EXCESSIVELY YORKSHIRE."  ?

[John F]

There's nowt wrong wi' being Yorkshire...

[Partridge]

Quite true! I've found most Yorkshiremen always get their pint in and have good time keeping.

[Split_Pin]

11 years old, 9 MOT's and no advisories.

 

As said, I keep on top of stuff.

 

All Voxholez r shit n' that.

[DVee8]

MOT passed for another year.

All vauxhall's and all that jazz

[Tetleysmooth]

My old Previa never failed an mot in my ownership, although on the last one before I sold it to Hairymel of this parish, it picked up a couple of advisories from a new tester at my regular mot station. Totally unwarrantied. He's gone now. A right bloody jobsworth.

[EssDeeWon]

I tend to think the MOT test is there to keep battered and abused never maintained cars off the road, which can only be a good thing!

 

You know the sort people that just drive their cars every day of the year and do little more than stick pez in it !! I think we probably all know at least one of these people, their cars are usually dirty and when they offer you a lift it takes them 2 minutes to clear all the shit off the passanger seat and out the footwell !!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

My Jag always passes its MOT. It did again in March, with no advisories. I always worry about emissions but I needn't. It is always well within its limits. I don't know why I worry about it, but it seems a habit I can't break.