Car failed the MOT.
- Thread starter HoneyBadger
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Really? What about below?
You can book it in for a "pre-MOT check", then an MOT
That's what I do for my cars usually. I ask my mechanic to do a pre-MOT, then do the repairs, then do the MOT. I like a straight pass. I actually sometimes ask him to do all the advisories that might come up to. I don't want an orange pass, I like them all green. For example, my Clio 197 recently went in for it's first MOT since I bought it. I had put it to a specialist for belts and check over when I got it, and had a big bill for that. So asked my mechanic for a green pass, first time round. And that was no problem. It's not like I was asking for anything shady. I wanted the car to actually be in a position for a straight, no advisories pass.
My Volvo is coming up for an MOT, but that one wont be asking for a green pass. Just a first time pass will do.
My car had deteriorated tyres valves on all four wheels as advisories on my last MOT. On wheels that had maybe been fully refurbished less that 14 months prior, looked fine to me, obviously something to show DVSA they are checking cars closely.
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I don't think a 6 year old Kia has any resale value does it?
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From a buying/selling perspective advisories can be useful. If buying, and the same advisories come up in consecutive years, this indicates the seller basically does little to no maintenance. If the seller has receipts that show he/she bought replacement parts shortly after getting an advisory, this indicates that the car is looked after fairly well.
Of course a good diy mechanic can foresee potential advisories /points of failure and remedy them, as can having a pre mot, but a used car with a list of straight mot passes would ring an alarm bell, unless of course backed up with lots of service history.
Of course a good diy mechanic can foresee potential advisories /points of failure and remedy them, as can having a pre mot, but a used car with a list of straight mot passes would ring an alarm bell, unless of course backed up with lots of service history.
I don't think a 6 year old Kia has any resale value does it?
It comes free with the radio.
He wasn't asking them to go round the car looking for and fixing issues - he had already identified an issue and asked them to fix that first, then to proceed onto the MOT.
I don't think a 6 year old Kia has any resale value does it?
I guess you're being a bit tongue in cheek, but I'd hazard a guess that a 6 year old Kia Sportage would have a lot more resale value than many other cars in the same segment of the same age. An excellent car by all accounts, and it would still have a year of its manufacturer's warranty remaining.
Not that the OP is worried about that, as he said. Just trying to keep a clean sheet.
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I don't think a 6 year old Kia has any resale value does it?
Oh don't say that mines 7 years old haha!
I have mentioned about taking it to Kia but just remembered I have taken mine to Kia before for a service and MOT. They did the MOT first failed it on a recall part that was swapped out on the service.
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I don't think a 6 year old Kia has any resale value does it?
Doesn't mean it cannot be someones pride and joy does it? Especially when trying to sell something mundane a clean bill of healthy is going to be attractive come re-sale. Not that it would change my mind if it had failed on bulbs.
It also depends if the retest was done by the same person or not. M.O.T is basically a garages opinion. One year I will get an advisory for a noisy exhaust. The next year nothing.
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Pretty much what I do when looking at cars.
