MOT first time pass

[Station]

It's a simple question!

 

Have you ever put a car in for an MOT and it passed first time?

This excludes obvious brand new cars.

 

My Nissan 300ZX Z31 passed the first time I put it in. I had done no work and it was generally hanging. I thought the MOT centre may be one of those rare fair ones, but subsequent £40 MOT's there have all failed, and retests are 20 quid.

[Jim Bell]

I thought it was accepted practice that (partial) retests within 10 (or however many) days were free. It says as much on the fail sheet usually. 

Charging for a partial retest is a cunts trick.  I would go somewhere else man.

 

 

 

Edit* Sorry, I read it wrong. That seems only to apply if you leave the car for work.

 

 

Still calling cunt on it though.

[castros_bro]

In the last year I got pass first time on cars...ZX, ZX, AX, 106,  Fiesta, MK3 Golf, Felicia, Fabia,  and  bikes..... Sachs, Mobylette, Mobylette, PC50, Honda, A.N.Other Moped  and Fails on 106 and Trafic.  All four wheel ones at the same place.

[Andrew353w]

It's a simple question!

 

Have you ever put a car in for an MOT and it passed first time?

This excludes obvious brand new cars.

 

My Nissan 300ZX Z31 passed the first time I put it in. I had done no work and it was generally hanging. I thought the MOT centre may be one of those rare fair ones, but subsequent £40 MOT's there have all failed, and retests are 20 quid.

Yes, my Citroën Xantia, every time for the last 6 years. Wait for it though... the next test is on Wednesday; after typing this I bet it fails....

[EssDeeWon]

Loads of times, I like to look after my cars so when MOT time comes I never really worry, long time since I had a failure. Currently the only thing is the back box blowing slightly so that will be done soon. The windscreen has a crack outside zone A but that will still be sorted before the MOT.

 

Not trying to sound too big headed but if you keep on top of things then the MOT should be a doddle IMHO.

[JohnK]

Not trying to sound too big headed but if you keep on top of things then the MOT should be a doddle IMHO.

 

Agreed. It's scary how many people rely on their annual service/MOT to identify any problems. Although I guess to most people a car is just an appliance, the same as a microwave, kettle etc.

 

I'm generally confident when it comes to putting my cars in for MOT as I give them a good check over before the MOT and rectify anything which jumps out on me as needing work.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My Rover's gone off for its MOT today, so I probably shouldn't tempt fate. But my cars usually pass first time. Obviously there's a limit to what you can check at home, but I've never sent a car for MOT without checking the lights, poking the sills, feeling the seatbelts, glancing at the steering rack boots etc. 

[Richard]

I get a first time pass more than half of the time. Even though I know my cars are generally ok I'm always massively relieved when I get a pass.

[danthecapriman]

Had 1st try mot success loads of times. But I do try hard to look after my cars well and sort things out if it needs it. In fact last year I put two of my cars in for mot on the same day, one straight after the other and got two passes.

Transit never seems to struggle, in fact it rarely even gets any advisories.

Granada usually has no trouble, Capri is much the same.

The Mercury is an unknown at the moment as I've only had it Mot'd once when it came into the country. It failed on split ball joint covers and a very old cracking brake hose. Not bad since I'm not sure if the US do much in the way of mots?

The only fails I've had are for the odd little thing that I've managed to miss during my routine checks and servicing. Which is good IMHO. All this mot exemption business only means things will get overlooked, or ignored. It's good to know someone professional has looked the car over and found all is in order. I don't think I've ever had a rust related mot fail yet either! Amazing given what cars I tend to have!

[cms206]

The council estate flew through a couple of weeks ago, as did the Sigmund Cox G-reg 740 last year. This was a great surprise to me as the last time I had a first time pass I paid for it. Literally. 70 quid. VALUE.

[twosmoke300]

The Saab always passes first time but it should cos it gets a full service and check before it goes in . And I used to be a tester so know what to check .

[Split_Pin]

A pass is all very well, but whose car has had no advisories, ever? In its entire life? And the car is 12 years old. And all MOTs carried out have been when the car is in your ownership?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Yeah loads. If I had bodged a tiny hole my Red fiesta would have been straight through. Shame I took a screwdriver to it...

[mercrocker]

Morris Minor - 10 MOTs one fail (spring hanger 7 years ago)

VW T25 - 8 MOTS one fail (ball joint)

Merc - 6 MOTS one fail (rear fog lamp)

Cowley - 2 MOTS no fail yet

 

I normally go through stuff myself but have got much better with the toffee hammer of doom, the balljoint was a surprise I will admit and I completely forgot about useless modern rear foglamps.....

[twosmoke300]

Goes off to check Saab mot history

[EssDeeWon]

Dealing with annual scamsurance renewals gives me more of a headache than the cars annual MOT.

[messerschmitt owner]

I have had circa ten MoT fails in my car owning life - even the Fiat 126 has passed the last three first time. My last fail was the Sherpa and I knew it was going to, I just wanted to see how bad it was.

[MrBiscuits]

A pass is all very well, but whose car has had no advisories, ever? In its entire life? And the car is 12 years old. And all MOTs carried out have been when the car is in your ownership?

My Jag got a clean sheet this year. Remarkable really since the same tester has given various advisories for corroded brake pipes and springs over the past 3yrs. I stuck my head under first time and saw nothing but surface rust (as you'd expect). I'm sure they haven't got any less rusty...

 

I think they make it up as they go along with these advisories. When asked they always say 'not worth the bother mate' why write the bloody stuff down then??

[PhilA]

My Nissans would never fail their MoT's.

 

My Vauxhall would routinely fail on ball joints. The tester even failed the brand new ones until it'd been pointed out to him that they were new and that was about the best as they make the things.

 

Never had anything major-major on an MoT fail, just various scabby bits of metal underneath where getting at it unless it was on a ramp was difficult. But, it was a Vauxhall so that's normal.

 

--Phil

[HMC]

Recently my quarter of a million mile audi a6 estate went straight through, testament more to how thorough the last owner had been with it as I'd only owned it 4 months at that point! The wife's freelander 2 also went straight through, and the ex cavcraft peugeot 205 aside from a wiggle to the washer pump electrics also got a clean bill of health first time. Not bad for a 20 odd year old hatch. I had high hopes for the 760 sootomatic as i had gone over it (in a bit of a rush) and sorted any stand out issues. Sadly it was not to be!

[spike60]

A bit like EssDeeWon I try to keep on top of the fleet. Currently have Z3, 2 passes, no fails, no advisories, Polo, 2 passes, no fails, 1 advisory for rear pads( changed a year later!), 924, 1 pass, no fails, no advisories.

I always find it difficult to understand cars failing on bald tyres, lights off etc. Surely any driver is capable of checking basic safety items?

[warren t claim]

I just make sure I take my cars to an "on message" testing station and leave £20 in the ashtray.

[New POD]

A pass is all very well, but whose car has had no advisories, ever? In its entire life? And the car is 12 years old. And all MOTs carried out have been when the car is in your ownership?

 

I thought you could be taking the piss, and then I remembered the 2000 (W)  Astra my son now owns. Every MOT. All passes all first time, and no advisories.  Mind you, it has a full dealer service history and was owned by my OCD father in law til last June and it's only done 20K. It's booked in for it's first none dealer, home service in June, when my son comes home after his finals.

[richardmorris]

I've never had a car fail. I just take it to the garage, tell them to service it, do what may be needed for the test and take it for the mot and let me know when it's ready.

 

Having said that I didn't present my cx that I knew should fail on rot but sold it with a weeks test left.

 

The mot really shouldn't be taken as a hurdle to get through when all the planets are in alignment and the car behaves, but a minimum roadworthynes assessment you should aim for all year round. I know I wouldn't dream of driving my neices round knowing that a tyre was borderline and the brakes just scraped through.

 

Of course, you should probably either use a station used to dealing with older cars or the local authority depot where they have no interest in fixing any issues they find for a profit.

[beko1987]

Always had passes. Have never really been worried, and my tester always gives me hints on what could be improved (hence me replacing the rear calipers as they were close, and needing to look at the emissions)

 

Also gives me 20 minutes to stand under it and inspect!

[Vince70]

I use "just Mots" and my last 5 motors that I've bought with short or no MOTs have all gone straight through ( no advisories ) apart from one which had knackered track rod ends and a loose battery

 

One of my cars which I owned for 4/5 years (and would only do about a 1000 miles on average per year in that motor )went there after getting an advisory list as long as your arm elsewhere the year before (I would normally just let the garage do the work) and I always came out with a £300/400 bill come mot time.

 

I knew the car very well and I know it was a goodun so thought the garage were trying their luck before going to just mots and low and behold the car went straight through without one advisory

 

Also My father sold a car which had an advisory list from the same garage only for the buyer to phone him up to tell him to change garages as it went straight through elsewhere with a clean sheet.

 

So for me it's Just Mots every time from now on plus it's only a 5 minute drive away I can't recommend them highly enough plus if a bulb or wiper blade needs changing its free and you can book up online in advance for about £30

[Junkman]

The possessed Rover and some Ectoplasm will be taken through this utterly useless and stupid ritual tomorrow.

I'd have better uses for the 40 odd quid wasted.

[vulgalour]

Xantia is the only car I've had pass first time, I think.  When I have had fails it's usually been on really minor annoying things, apart from the galloping rot on the Princess' last MoT, that was a bit on the serious side.

[twosmoke300]

I often wonder what would happen if car owners had an operators licence type arrangement and got points etc for mot fails like lorry operators do .

 

It should improve vehicle conditions in theory .

[oman5]

With every volvo I've ever owned, they've always passed first time, although I do keep on top of anything that obviously needs attention