First ever MOT!

[stuarty]

Ive been driving for nearly 20 years and today was the first time i've ever put a car through an MOT.

I've only ever owned new or nearly new cars up to earlier this year when I bought my 54 plate zed.

I took it for an MOT today and it passed with flying colours, not even an advisory.

Ive got every MOT my cars ever had done and suprisingly its only ever had one advisory in 2009. Is this normal for a Zed? I would have thought with the car being nearly seven years old it would have needed some parts changed due to wear and tear!

My car does have a full service history and I'm assuming any work needing done has been carried out during the service.

Finally, I dont think i'll be spending 25K + on a new car ever again. I think i'll just hold out and do my homework and buy what ever car I want when its around 5 years old and save a small fortune.

[Peter10]

My experience of MOT's is that most cars can pass fairly easily as long as a car is well after. I briefly worked in a garage when I was younger and some of the sheds we had in the day before an MOT to give a once over was about 50% of the jobs and they rarely failed.

 

I'd I remember rightly, Germany have a far more rigorous equivilent, of which would probably remove 25% of the cars in the UK which are on the road.

 

I can't justify buying a car new (unless it was under £15,000 and even then ). The quality of second hand cars compared to 20 year ago is huge. Also what puts me off is depreciation. A guy at work paid the best part of £30,000 for an Audi S3 last year. It's probably worth less than £20,000 now.

[Stroudy]

And dont forget Nationwide (Halfords) Autocentres do half price MOT's for next time