Car D.I.Y.

[figbat]

...if the car was brand new you get 3 years but because of the covid that was extended to 3.5 years.

Only if the first MOT fell within the MOT extension period (3 April - 1 August). There is not a blanket extension to all MOTs and all new cars.

EDIT - just noticed that @tyred is in Ireland, so different rules to UK. Above is for GB.

 

[Profpointy]

The way it works is that the first test is due on the 4th anniversary of the date of registration and each subsequent test will be due on the same date each year.

Test it after the due date and it will be backdated to the that date. If you tested it 360 days after the due date you would only have a valid test for a few days before doing it again.

I don't feel it's fair. I really hoped they'd give from the actual date of test this time as the reason people have cars out of test is purely because the test centres were closed for several months which is not the customer's fault but the customer is being made pay for it. As usual.

That doesn't make sense surely ? I had a car which had been off the road for 6 years - by the logic above when I got an MOT it would have immediately expired 5 years previously. Presumably I'd have needed 5 consecutive retests before I was up to date

 

[Drago]

That doesn't make sense, the car is effectively out of test, so when it passes it's from the date it passes surely, the RH I have on the drive ran out of MOT in 2106, when I take it next week, they're not going to back date it till then?

A car that passes its MOT from today has a years new ticket from that date. It is not backdated to when the last ticket expired, regardless of the circumstances.

The garage are either ignorant, talking our their arrisses, trying to pull a flanker, or all three.

 

[tyred]

A car that passes its MOT from today has a years new ticket from that date. It is not backdated to when the last ticket expired, regardless of the circumstances.

The garage are either ignorant, talking our their arrisses, trying to pull a flanker, or all three.

In Ireland it will be backdated to whenever it was due and you will not get a year from date of test unless you test it on the due date or up to 3 months prior to ths due date assuming it already has test.

 

[Drago]

Sorry, sometimes forget that not everyone lives in Midsomer.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

In Ireland it will be backdated to whenever it was due and you will not get a year from date of test unless you test it on the due date or up to 3 months prior to ths due date assuming it already has test.

So what happens to a car in the situation mine is, it was due its first MOT in November 2016 it wasn't taken & stored in a garage, I bought it & now it's ready for a test, it's going next week?

 

[tyred]

So what happens to a car in the situation mine is, it was due its first MOT in November 2016 it wasn't taken & stored in a garage, I bought it & now it's ready for a test, it's going next week?

They would backdate it to Nov 2019 so you would need to test it again in November 2020.

It is the same with "road" tax. It always runs from the first of the month. Tax your car on the 31st and you will have wasted a month's tax.

 

[fossyant]

Started to change the back box - it WAS nice and dry - hissing it down now. Blasted both exhaust joint nuts/bolts with the little gas burner, which made removal straight forward. Mid section was propped up with a bungee, and back box came appart.

Now, 18 years on the car - getting the rubber hangers off the back box hooks was a nightmare. The rust had stuck them on. Lots of wriggling and eventually they came off, me rather damp by now. New back box just slipped on.

Son gone out for a couple of nuts and a gasket and we should all be done.

 

[fossyant]

Son couldn't get the nuts or gasket (wire mesh type) so I cut the nuts off the old backbox and reused the gasket with assembly paste then assembled.

Turn car on, blowing. Not from the backbox joint, but the mid silencer. The jiggling had opened up a gap. Currently sealed and curing, but I guess its a new mid section, hence why you usually replace both. Oh well.

 

[fossyant]

No unexpected noises from the exhaust this morning !

 

[Pale Rider]

Topped up the washer bottle on my new to me CMax.

First time I've opened the bonnet since I bought the car late last year, not that I've been anywhere what with lock down and being poorly.

Thought about checking the tyre pressures, but there's something in the handbook about having to reset the automatic pressure sensor.

Looks a bit complicated, so might do that another day.

 

[fossyant]

Topped up the washer bottle on my new to me CMax.

First time I've opened the bonnet since I bought the car late last year, not that I've been anywhere what with lock down and being poorly.

Thought about checking the tyre pressures, but there's something in the handbook about having to reset the automatic pressure sensor.

Looks a bit complicated, so might do that another day.

My son's uses the ABS sensors to detect if the air pressure might be low which seems less problem prone to the pressure sensing valves.

 

[Pale Rider]

My son's uses the ABS sensors to detect if the air pressure might be low which seems less problem prone to the pressure sensing valves.

I recall reading something about an early Renault system costing hundreds to fix if it went wrong - which it often did.

I'll admit to liking a lot of the gadgets on the new car, but one or two do seem to be more trouble than they are worth.

The auto heating/ventilation system still baffles me, despite several attempts to understand it.

I have another expense on the horizon.

I've managed to mislay one of the keyless entry keys.

Looks like a replacement will be best part of £200.

 

[Drago]

My son's uses the ABS sensors to detect if the air pressure might be low which seems less problem prone to the pressure sensing valves.

Indeed. Most manufacturers have gone to indirect monitoring systems that work in this manner, and they actually work very well. The direct monitoring systems were notoriously problematic and the sensors fragile.

 

[fossyant]

I recall reading something about an early Renault system costing hundreds to fix if it went wrong - which it often did.

I'll admit to liking a lot of the gadgets on the new car, but one or two do seem to be more trouble than they are worth.

The auto heating/ventilation system still baffles me, despite several attempts to understand it.

I have another expense on the horizon.

I've managed to mislay one of the keyless entry keys.

Looks like a replacement will be best part of £200.

Check the fridge for the key 👅

I quite like the auto feature on my heating system - was always a worry as everything (vents etc) have a little servo that switches where the air comes out from - needn't have worried, the car is 18 years old and all works still.