Just being set up by VOSA.


https://www.reminders.mot-testing.service.gov.uk Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

Great! Just put my Evoque details on and it said it cannot set a reminder for a vehicle that doesn't have a current MOT. Just checked it and it ran out on July 21st!! I'm an MOT tester.

I'd better do a thorough MOT on it first thing in the morning.  Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

 Updated- Waiting for a Scotland v England 6 Nations home win. 24th Feb 2018
Gone-1972 88 SWB Soft top
Gone-1981 24v FFR Lightweight
Gone-2009 Freelander 2 TD4 GS manual
Gone before it bankrupted me- 2008 Discovery 3 TDV6 Auto
2013 Freelander 2 SD4 GS Auto

 FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Glad it's not just me, wife drove her Volvo around for four months until I realized it had run out!
Both cars listed now, thanks. Common sense isn't very common.
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2007 Land Rover Freelander2 I6 hse Auto

I've been using an app called Vehicle Smart on my Android phone. Enter your car reg and it looks up the details like MOST and TAX and you can put in other info like reminders and insurance details. Keeps it all in one place.

Handy if you want to look up another card details too. Learned to drive in 2011.
Bought a Micra - great little car
"Upgraded" to Kia Sportage - hated it
Proper upgrade to FL2 TD4 GS 60 reg Facelift - tailgate paint issues, fuel gauge rewire, transfer box failure at 36k miles, clutch at 60k
Reconditioned diff at 70k ish
Sold at 84k and now on a DS. Terribly unreliable.
Sold DS for a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Fingers crossed....
Sold Outlander for a 2014 SD4 SE Tech because I’m mental

My cars work just as well without a MOT or with one. those were the days when you could put a Guinness bottle label in your car tax holder.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Just set mine up. All fine now.......i hope

Wots an M O T ....???

Just buy a new CAR ...



I WISH .... wife always tells me on the run up to Christmas Dont forget your present is CAR TAX AND MOT ( MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT HER,S ) HER CHRISTMAS PRESENT .. !!!
 Wales
Were the mud is thicker, and the ruts are deeper.
(And we have the water to wash it off, and more on the way..! )
Sd4 and chrome Ar*e piece, Auto box for best fun
09 Xs Gone
12 xs Gone
HSE with Leather seats and 4 years warrenty.. staying for now !

Steve D wrote:

I'm an MOT tester. I'd better do a thorough MOT on it first thing in the morning.

I bought a D4 last July with supposedly 12 months MOT..

I got a text from the dealer 2 weeks ago saying its due, I looked online to see the exact date...

13th March 2017

After a quick phone call to the dealer, I didn't pay for the MOT or any repairs (It failed on the EPB warning light coming on during a tapley test. )

Also got another years MOT warranty from them.. MY2011 Freelander 2 GS Santorini Black
MY2004 Freelander 1 Sport Java Black
MY1986 Defender 90 Stornoway Grey - Fully Rebuilt this Year

The dealer I bought my FL2 from in March (main LR dealer near the Derbyshire/Yorkshire border, not far from M1, in a town renowned for its church with a twisted spire ) failed to MOT it even though I specifically asked on pick up if it had been done as it expired 4 days previously.

They allowed me to drive away with no MOT, then called me on my way home to tell me it hadn't been done but it was booked in for the following morning and I was legal to drive it until then (which isn't the case at all). When I drove back at 8am the next day I discovered the service department knew nothing and it wasn't booked in, but as it was so early the MOT test station agreed to get it done first.

I always thought it was crazy how they sent a reminder for tax (which doesn't affect vehicle safety) but no reminder for MOT (which does affect safety potentially).

About time they brought in a reminder service for MOT but still wrong that you have to register to get it instead of automatically as with the tax.

dorsetfreelander wrote:

Steve D wrote:

I'm an MOT tester. I'd better do a thorough MOT on it first thing in the morning.

Interesting that you are allowed to MOT your own vehicle. Not that you have anything to gain by driving an unsafe vehicle, of course.

Steve D wrote:

Great! Just put my Evoque details on and it said it cannot set a reminder for a vehicle that doesn't have a current MOT. Just checked it and it ran out on July 21st!! I'm an MOT tester.

I'd better do a thorough MOT on it first thing in the morning.

I’ve done it again!!

Just had the road tax reminder for the old work runabout Focus - tax due on 1st Feb. Tried to tax it online. No joy - bloody MOT had run out.




Only by 7 months though....... Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

Likely to be a particular problem for DS owners. At least the FL2 has an annual service, so for most people third service = end of warranty and MoT. The DS has a nominal service interval of 21000 miles or two years, so no obvious way of remembering the three year deadline other than putting a reminder on your phone - not that you'll keep your phone that long anyway. Ex AA Series III LWB Safari - Gone
300TDi Disco (bought new - terrible car) sent back after 18 months
Freelander 1 Estate - leased, given back at end of lease
200TDi Disco (bought from a mate with 100,000 on the clock) - Gone
Disco 2 TD5 - sold and exported to France
FR2 TD4 GS - Gone
FR2 SD4 HSE - Now changed for a DS
New model ex-demo Evoque S 180 in white
Unable to order a new DS, so gave up. Now have a Volvo S90 Recharge.