brian -r Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 Now most of our cars are MOT exempt when would be the better time to have a voluntary one done. Now so that any remedial work can be done over winter or in the spring when most remedial works have been done and you can start the season with a fresh ticket and knowledge that any unknown problems from jobs done over winter have been picked up. Just something to think about Brian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Drewmotty Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 Get it done now. It’ll still have a ticket covering all of next summer and most fails are due to something that the owner has missed anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barkerwilliams Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 Most Classic insurances are limited mileage, what better than a recent MOT certificate to corroborate a mileage reading for the insurance company. So for me a couple of weeks before insurance renewal. Two birds, one stone. Alan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nigel Triumph Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 I simply MoT my classics shortly before the old certificate is due to expire. The idea of an annual professional check on the quality of my maintenance work gives peace of mind, just in case I missed something. Each to their own... Nigel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 (edited) +1 just carry on as if MOT was still required. Bob. Edited November 4, 2018 by Lebro Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peejay4A Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 +1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillp Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 +2 Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brenda Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 +3 you may miss something and thay can test your brakes individually. Mike. Redrose group Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lynchpin Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 HI all Just a thought but can you still apply for mot exemption if you have carried out the test ? Phil.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rogcastle Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 I have looked at the DVLA site and my interpretation is that provided your car is registered historic and is ok according to the originality rules you dont need to get a MOT and you can if you like dip in and out and still get one done whenever you like. I assume if it fails it fails and will be tested under the new rules maybe?. My Mot runs out this month, but I will be getting my test done in the spring as its in the garage for the winter and I will be working on it during that time. Seems to make sense to me to get done after I worked on it. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
monty Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 Get it done when it expires! Crazy to exempt & to rely on the Government to know what is best! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisR-4A Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 Two ways of looking at this dilemma, should you test before you start work on car to help determine what needs doing, or should you not trust your own work and test after completion to confirm all is OK?Or both! Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iain Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 35 minutes ago, ChrisR-4A said: Two ways of looking at this dilemma, should you test before you start work on car to help determine what needs doing, or should you not trust your own work and test after completion to confirm all is OK?Or both! Chris Prior to my recent jaunt around France I did a huge amount of fettling and then it went for the MOT to check all was ok and highlight what wasn’t before it bit my bum and I ended up on a Rally with no wife and no navigator! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rogcastle Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 Chris I don't think it's about not trusting the work I do. I have been working on cars since I was seventeen 49 years in total. It just makes sense to me. The car will be in the garage whilst I work on it and when I am finished I will take to MoT station. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EXTR6 Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 (edited) Sound right Chris. An MOT is money and time well spent, I believe. I imagine one would need to be sure that it is as rigorous as that carried out on cars with a statutory requirement. Ideal, I guess, would be a TR specialist offering that service because they would have a vested interest, over and above their professionalism, which is a given, namely the remedial work! That would be fine with me; I'd want to drive with reasonable confidence in the car's safety. Of course, no MOT inspection could have foreseen the forthcoming snapped con rod which took out a sizeable piece of the block, as I sped (love that old word) down the autobahn in my '72 TR6. We are now an hour or so into the armistice anniversary day, and I am reminded that a motorist, who followed me as I found my way to the hard shoulder, said of my envelopment in black smoke, " Ja, you looked like the Red Baron being shot down." My car, Ellie, was eventually repatriated to Goudhurst, (that's another saga) where my young nephew, a Haynes guide and I, installed a brand new half engine purchased from Loxley's at Bromley. I also popped on a metering unit and new injectors, the first of two during my 28 years tenure of the Pimento Princess Ellie, WVX 545L. Curiously, and quite irrelevant to this thread, a similar event, this time on an autoroute, befell my BMW motorbike (a straight 4) about twenty years later. Again, I survived without injury as metal flew like shrapnel. (Ellie was snug in her garage at the time) I paid the irate French farmer driver £150 cash for the shrapnel hole in his elderly car's door - we were both very lucky with our legs - and other bits! - The European break down cover paid for a hotel and then got me home to Wandsworth and the bike to BMW Service, then at Chiswick, on the Monday. BMW picked up the £5.8k tab for the repairs on my bike. Quite a weekend "spin". The French car? Probably rotting in a barn with a shrapnel hole in its door surrounded by £150 worth of, now empty, wine bottles. Cheers! Brendan Edited November 11, 2018 by EXTR6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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