MOT tests to be extended by 6 months, if due from 30 March

[Jerzy Woking]

I used to take my vans and cars into a small village garage for MOT's, despite it being an hours round trip. Family run business, etablished for many years and alway very, very fair.

One year they gave an advisory for rust on my VW T4 (really). Asked when they could do the work, and the tester said "it's only to let you know it will need doing, its structurally sound". Was an advisory for two more MOT's before he said "it needs doing this time". 

[Petrolize]

Anyone get a 31st of January extension or have I won? 🙏 I could’ve sworn I had it MOT’d June 2019 so assumed it would be out this month but pleasantly surprised. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

47 minutes ago, Petrolize said:

Anyone get a 31st of January extension or have I won? 🙏 I could’ve sworn I had it MOT’d June 2019 so assumed it would be out this month but pleasantly surprised. 

25th January 2021 for the MR2. 

[timolloyd]

Our XC90 goes in tomorrow, the same day its Boris MOT expires.

I’m usually more organised than this. The car’s in pretty good order but it’s a family wagon so has to work hard.

[Zelandeth]

Still trying to decide if I want to chuck the van in to Kwik-Fit down in Bletchley shortly or just leave it till the spring at this point.

Jag has been done, Xantia was sorted last month (it didn't get an extension), so it's the only one I need to worry about in the near future.

Was just going to leave the van till the spring but ran into the first "well that made things awkward" moment having to cram the dog into the back of the Xantia for a trip to the vet last week.

[groovylee]

both the focus and the panda passed their boris extension MOTs a couple of weeks back, but then they're both 2014 cars so it was sort of expected.

i think the bike is due soon, but that'll wait till better weather now.  the mini is still not going anywhere, so not worried about that, and the Ranger is *exempt, so not worried about that either, especially as it hasn't been used in almost a year

 

[colino]

It's a bit weird that if you put it in for test the month before the end of the BJ extension, the car is mot'd for a year from the end of the extended date., not from the test date. 

[LightBulbFun]

16 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Was just going to leave the van till the spring but ran into the first "well that made things awkward" moment having to cram the dog into the back of the Xantia for a trip to the vet last week.

how well do they fit in the wheel chair space in TPA?  

[gtd2000]

On 12/6/2020 at 8:12 PM, Petrolize said:

Anyone get a 31st of January extension or have I won? 🙏 I could’ve sworn I had it MOT’d June 2019 so assumed it would be out this month but pleasantly surprised. 

Same date.

 

[gtd2000]

On 12/7/2020 at 6:09 PM, colino said:

It's a bit weird that if you put it in for test the month before the end of the BJ extension, the car is mot'd for a year from the end of the extended date., not from the test date. 

Why would that be weird?

The extended date is the valid date of the current/latest MoT

[Petrolize]

1 hour ago, gtd2000 said:

Same date.

 

Wonder if anyone has a 31/1/21 MOT?

[SillyBilly]

My MOT was due on 7th July and I didn't realise I had the BJ extension. So I took it for the test a week early, to allow for any fixes. Fortunately it passed, but it expires on 2nd July 2021. So not only did I lose the extension, I also lost a week of the original. Must try harder.

[twosmoke300]

Awwww yehhhh 

[horriblemercedes]

9 hours ago, Petrolize said:

Wonder if anyone has a 31/1/21 MOT?

Twosmoke does! 

[Isaac Hunt]

One of our cars had and April 2020 Expiry.

 It got a Covid Carryforward Cash Cutter until Oct.  

I hate October onwards MOT’s cos the weather is shite and fekkin miserable.  

So I planned to get it done early in the summer but got busy with other Furlough Frolikings.  

So come October, it’s pissin down with rain and the exhaust clamp fell off and the joint needs some fettling.  Then the windscreen washer pump motor packed up.  So I made a rod for my own fekkin back, sorned the fekker, it will wait till the spring, so it will be two years between tests.

lying on the ground fekkin about with the under bumper washer bottle in the cold and rain, serves me right for running the full 18 months.

[lesapandre]

A brief update on Covid and MoTs. Gov advice as of yesterday is MoT stations can remain open.