Just looking at the MOT certificate on SWIMBO's car. It says something along the lines of "in order to preserve the annual thingmy of the MOT the earliest you can present the vehicle for a test is XX/XX/XX"

Is this some new rule? I want to sell / trade it in, and TBH I reckon it'll fetch more with a years MOT than with the few months it's got left.

I thought you could submit a car for an MOT anytime you wanted?

Cheers

Mike

you can submit it at any time, however what it means is that if you present the car for MOT before that date then the annual date at which your MOT will run out will change to the new date of MOT. whereas if you waited till that earliest date you would retain the same renewal date for next year.

You can have an MOT done at any time i'm sure.
The date thing is to say that if your mot runs out at the end of november you can have a new MOT done at the start of november and the new MOT start date will be when the old one ends. I think thats how it works.

Thanks! I get that. Why can't they write in English?

Mike

thats because things like these are written by people who i like to refer as "Knobjockies"

you can have a vehicle MOT'd up to a month before your old one expires. in my case it was due to expire on the 31 aug but passed it's mot on the 27th so my new mot is dated valid from 27th 08 expiry 31st 09
tony

[Edited on 8/9/08 by mad-butcher]

up to 28 days before the old test expires the extra days get addedto the new ticket

But rather oddly, if you take the car the day before the printed date (which is a month before the current cert expires) you can only have 12 months!!