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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 8:38:33 GMT
Apparently you can now see a car's MOT history going back to 2005, including fails, advisories and mileage. I didn't know about this, and as Matt Prior points out in his always excellent end piece in Autocar, you'd be wary of one whose mileage falls, or where the owner seems always to have it on bald tyres etc.
www.check-mot.service.gov.uk
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Post by racingteatray on May 2, 2019 9:10:20 GMT
Yep. That's how I worked out that the 135i with the grey interior had to be my old one - I looked up the MoT history for my old car, which showed it had been MoT'd just a couple of weeks earlier at a mileage that tallied to within 15 or so miles of that listed in the advert.
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Post by ChrisM on May 2, 2019 9:49:41 GMT
You've been able to look up MOT history for any car for a few years now... used it on the Audi A1 my daughter now has when it was for sale at the dealer, used it for the Mondeo estate that elder daughter was running around in until mum gave her the V70 and guessed that she'd have issues at its most recent MoT..... which she duly did
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Post by Tim on May 2, 2019 9:51:05 GMT
I keep looking at all my old cars on this, some appear to have the same recurring issues every couple of years (usually headlight aim).
The most alarming one was the silver E46 estate I had briefly - I sold it with 210k miles on the clock and its last MOT recorded 135k.....
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Post by Alex on May 2, 2019 9:56:50 GMT
I keep checking this on my old cars too to see how many miles they now do. The Megane I had a few years back in which I covered 25k PA now does about 2k PA so it’s having a nice retirement!
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 10:03:46 GMT
Looking at my V6 A3, it seems that failing rear springs is a common issue...
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Post by Tim on May 2, 2019 10:11:47 GMT
Drop links are a Stilo favourite.
The Alfa GT I had has got to about 45k and regularly has new side repeaters for the indicators due to discolouration, as well as the headlight aim.
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Post by racingteatray on May 2, 2019 10:46:03 GMT
Three of my old cars are still with the people who bought them from me (private plates are a marvellous thing in that respect):
The Alfa is SORN and on 53k miles (I'm in contact from time to time with the guy who bought it off me in 2009 - he's basically mothballed it - had 46k miles when I sold it).
The green Z1 is still with the guy who rebuilt it after buying the wreck from me in 2010, and has 127k kms on the clock (109k kms when I wrote it off).
The E60 M5 is still with the same chap who bought it from me via ML in late 2012 and is still only on 64k miles (37k when I sold it).
Mileage-wise, the stand-out trooper seems to be my mother's old 54-plate A3 Sportback TDI, which she part-ex'd with 81k miles and a failing turbo in September 2012 - it's obviously had a second lease of life and was recently re-MoT'd with over 137k on the clock! |
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Post by chocy on May 2, 2019 16:17:27 GMT
I've used it a lot in my car searches.
A million advisories for corrosion is always a warning.
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Post by Boxer6 on May 2, 2019 19:26:12 GMT
Just looked up my Legacy. It drove/moved exactly 40 miles between me selling it and passing it's next MOT (with no advisories) 25 days later. The previous 4 MOT's all had loads of what seemed to me to be pointless advisories, such as "rear drop links might be dodgy in a few thousand miles" and things of that nature. The 2 times it failed were due to a rear number plate light being u/s, which was a known weak point on these cars and I replaced at least 10 in the 10 years I had it.
Whoever tested it, I suspect, was a bit 'friendly'; either that or not very good! Whatever the advisories might have been, I sold with (and because) of an intermittent and undiagnosable high water temp which put the car into limp-home mode, and something horrible happening in the transmission that sounded/felt expensive. It's due again inside a month, so it'll be interesting to see what happens.
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Post by ChrisM on May 3, 2019 6:44:49 GMT
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I don't think that there will be any advisories due to the new system for the MoT
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Post by Boxer6 on May 3, 2019 10:38:04 GMT
^ I don't think that there will be any advisories due to the new system for the MoT That might be it, indeed. |
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 11, 2019 9:05:26 GMT
The new pass/fail categories are:
Dangerous - Direct risk to road safety or the environment. Results in a Fail.
Major - Could affect safety or the environment. Results in a Fail.
Minor - No effect on safety, but should be repaired as soon as possible.
Advisory - Could have an effect in future.
Pass - Meets the current legal standards.
I find the MOT history useful for work, too. If Im getting complaints of poor driving or stop a ropey looking car, it gives a great overview of how it is/is not being cared for. Pus you can have a nosey at the mileage on neighbour's cars.
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Post by PG on May 11, 2019 11:45:51 GMT
Very useful to check into cars you might be interested in. I looked online at a 2004 XKR recently and it had a list of major, minor and advisories the length of my arm. A few days later it passed with nothing. There is no way they could have done all that in a few days, maybe majors but not everything else. The one thing is does not tell you (or I could not work out) is where the MOT as done - that would solve the fail at garage A, take to a mate at garage B and pass issue.
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 12, 2019 21:38:35 GMT
ThevMOT station number is on there but you apparently need to have the V5 to be able to see that.
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Post by PG on May 13, 2019 14:05:46 GMT
ThevMOT station number is on there but you apparently need to have the V5 to be able to see that. Yes that is what it says, which is hardly useful. |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 17:21:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 17:28:48 GMT
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Post by Alex on May 13, 2019 20:08:31 GMT
If you have the V5 then it stands to reason that you'll probably know where it was MOT'd because it's your car! I looked up the R32 (the cars either side of it are both no more) and it failed last year for having an indicator not working. It's only been averaging about 4-5K miles a year since I had it. From memory it was on around 60K in 2014 and had only 80K at its 2018 test. What knob went to the MOT centre without checking his indicators?! |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 21:31:44 GMT
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Post by racingteatray on May 14, 2019 8:49:42 GMT
It's always a bit sad when you see that one of your former steers is evidently no more.
For example, for ages my old Nogaro Blue 2002 Audi S3 was going strong, doing a good 10k per year, but I now see that while it passed an MoT (no advisories) with 150k on the clock in August 2016, it hasn't been re-MoT'd since and the tax ran out in April 2017.
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