Pre-M.O.T

[dotty.]

if my car's m.o.t is due 7th december and i book the car in for the 3rd or 4th am i booking a pre-m.o.t or an actual m.o.t?

[dotty.]

my only worry with the MOT is the seatbelt anchors, both the seatbelt anchors in the front seat are not easy to clip the belt into, once they are in they don;t budge but it isn;t always the first attempt that secures them.

[EDDIE51]

MOjo-jo-jo the link you posted is just plain WRONG !
No MOT does NOT repeat NOT void your insurance !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet again that old myth is perpetuated. How could you ever take a car that has the MOT expired to get a new MOT if it was true ?

[chrissa1]

Why bother and get charged for a Pre-MOT? Book it in for the MOT and if it fails get the work done so that it passes. If I get the work done at the same garsge, they don't charge to test it again.
What Eddie said is right.

[yogi-bear]

Cant you get them quickly looked at before the 3rd or 4th, Dot?.......

You could try some WD40 spray...may work :0)...amazing how many times that stuff has saved my bacon.

[dotty.]

oh that's an idea, yes i could try that. How does the garage test the seatbelts anyway? do they pull them about suddenly or something?

[yogi-bear]

Depends on the garage, Dot.....some are quite thorough and take their time and about 45 mins to test start to finish...others maybe 30-35 mins and not as fussy, but they DO cover the major points to ensure the car is safe on the road.

I'm not sure if they clip them all but see if they are broken and frayed badly....cuts etc......so pot luck really Dot :0)


Hope it flys through x

[ChuckFickens]

For insurance reasons there are two things to consider.

Having no MOT... this Does NOT automatically invalidate your insurance.

Driving a non-roadworthy vehicle... this can invalidate your insurance.

So there is a grey area there... for example, my car could fail it's MOT due to defective windscreen wipers, but this wouldn't necessarily make my car unroadworthy on a dry day, but if it was peeing down with rain and I had an accident it could be shown to make my car unroadworthy at the time of the accident, which could invalidate my insurance.

I've also tried to find a definitive answer to "does a MOT failure invalidate an existing MOT" over the last few weeks... and I can't find one, even looking at official sites there are contradictions.

[ChuckFickens]

Dotty... the seat belt anchors aren't a problem.

They have to be secure, they don't have to be easy to secure.

[dotty.]

oh don't they? that's ok then, thanks, will try WD40 before i take it in,

[dotty.]

that's where i found the back MOT's for this car and they were all straight passes apart from on 3 years ago and that was a windscreen wiper blade.

[dotty.]

it's a p reg too!

[ZedBloke]

no one seems to have answered properly
1) there is no such thing as a pre MOT (officially)
2) Your MOT runs until it's expiry date
3) You can have an new MOT at any time, if it fails see point 2)
4) if you want your new MOT to be contiguous with your old one then you can present it up to N days before (not sure about N someone said it above)

so if you do 4) and it fails your car is still MOT'd so in that sense it is effectively a "pre MOT"

[dotty.]

thanks for that zed, it did get a bit confusing, lol