Odd MOT history on a car I'm looking at

ChrisD.

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Hi all,

I've run an MOT check on a car I'm looking at. Here's the result:

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It was tested and given a pass in June 2015, then retested in July 2015 and failed, to then pass again shortly after.

Can anyone think of a reason why a car would need to be retested when it has a valid certificate? The only thing I can think of is a retest after a write off, however I believe that it's HPI clear. I haven't run a check yet, but it's a reputable garage that's selling it. I've emailed them and I'm waiting on them to get back to me.
 
Pulled by the police for the lamps possibly?

I know I got pulled, and when they checked the car it had ran out of water (that bloody day too) so I got a fine and had to get some sort of mini MOT done and handed back to the police. Not sure if that went on the cars history or not though?
 
I know some garages (but obviously not all) put a fresh MOT on the car when they get it, just to check everything before it's sold on. The VAG specialist that I bought mine from did this and the "Not a Dealer but selling loads of cars from my House" dealer that I bought my old Mondeo from did it too.
 
Yeah or the buyer insisted for peace of mind. Done that before with my first car for a dealer, found two broken springs during an MOT. Mot was only 2-3 months new.
 
ianh said:
I know some garages (but obviously not all) put a fresh MOT on the car when they get it, just to check everything before it's sold on. The VAG specialist that I bought mine from did this and the "Not a Dealer but selling loads of cars from my House" dealer that I bought my old Mondeo from did it too.
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Begbie said:
Yeah or the buyer insisted for peace of mind. Done that before with my first car for a dealer, found two broken springs during an MOT. Mot was only 2-3 months new.
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Come on guys I'd get it if the MOT was a few months old but 3 weeks?!
 
It's a bit bizarre, but not many people fix a cat C in 3 weeks or so either so I'm not convinced it's anything to do with significant damage
 
Quite possibly had HID's installed and VOSA/Police made them remove them and an MOT Station has to confirm this else they impound your car.

Happens a lot
 
[TW]Fox;29188986 said:
Come on guys I'd get it if the MOT was a few months old but 3 weeks?!
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I'd agree, dependent on the customer. Not sure how the 'Mini mots' are recorded though? If they even are.
 
Unicorn said:
Quite possibly had HID's installed and VOSA/Police made them remove them and an MOT Station has to confirm this else they impound your car.

Happens a lot
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Why would an MOT station need to confim this? Retrofitted HIDs are not an MOT failure.
 
Unicorn said:
Quite possibly had HID's installed and VOSA/Police made them remove them and an MOT Station has to confirm this else they impound your car.

Happens a lot
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I would guess something along the lines of this given it's quite common for someone to have something done to a car whilst in at a garage for an MOT. The individual requests the MOT first then requests some kind of modfication to be fitted afterwards.
 
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I would say 99% that's a Vosa/Police intervention. Only Vosa could nullify a current mot like that.

Edit :- Was likely stopped and given 7 days to rectify and proove or mot would be invalidated and didn't do so.
 
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