MOT and Retest

teulk · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:22

Currently my car is in for a MOT, i rang the garage yeaterday and i was told it would be ready today at 10am. I went to collect it this morning and was told it had to be retested............Now there were a number of failures that needed to be rectified so my question is - If the garage that did the MOT did the repairs after the MOT then why do they have to retest it, surely if they fixed the MOT failures then they know them failures are fixed to a standard to pass the MOT they have just done ? Therefore why carry out a retest to check the things they have just fixed as they are the only things that have to be check on a retest...........

andicole0 · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:25

A retest at the same garage is free I thought, especially if they carried out the repair work.

See this.

Andi.

shifty_uk · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:29

I was under the impression they fast tracked and issued an MOT there and then if the failing issues are rectified by the same garage, immediately after the test?

teulk · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:31

Thanks for the link, i know it will be free but i ws just curious as to why they would even have to do a "retest" if the car didnt leave the garage and they did the repairs - why not just do the repairs, type up a pass certificate and release the car ? Why bother with a retest ?

Wicksta · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:35

teulk said:
Thanks for the link, i know it will be free but i ws just curious as to why they would even have to do a "retest" if the car didnt leave the garage and they did the repairs - why not just do the repairs, type up a pass certificate and release the car ? Why bother with a retest ?

They will have had to inform the DVLA system that the car had initially failed and it would require a subsequent retest. They wouldn't have been able to click 'pass' unless the work had already been done which it hadn't at that point. I've noticed when I've had MOTs before that sometimes you have to wait after passing before they submit the information to the DVLA computer so I guess it's pretty strict with time slots and what is being done. I guess it helps stop dodgy MOTs when everything is logged so well and precise.

Maz · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:38

MOT tests are done in real time, logged on to a pc and when completed logged off - this is why!

PhillyDee · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:38

An MOT has to take a certain length of time. DVLA says its impossible to do it faster! Hence why you had to wait before it was submitted.

teulk · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:39

Wicksta said:
They will have had to inform the DVLA system that the car had initially failed and it would require a subsequent retest. They wouldn't have been able to click 'pass' unless the work had already been done which it hadn't at that point. I've noticed when I've had MOTs before that sometimes you have to wait after passing before they submit the information to the DVLA computer so I guess it's pretty strict with time slots and what is being done. I guess it helps stop dodgy MOTs when everything is logged so well and precise.

So it probably a "time issue" in re-submitting a pass as opposed to actually carying out a "retest" then ?

Wicksta · 21 Aug 2010 at 10:43

teulk said:
So it probably a "time issue" in re-submitting a pass as opposed to actually carying out a "retest" then ?

I'm guessing so going on what I've noticed while getting my own MOTs (and what the other replies have just said) but I think it's a good bet.