To ask if your car normally passes it's MOT.

My three year old Hyundai i10 failed its first one! Fortunately it's still under warranty. It took 2 months to get a new part!

The tyres were replaced when they needed changing. The oil was never changed. I'm not sure why you think it's nonsense when it was my car not yours. Quite bizarre you're getting so annoyed by it tbh.

Mine's passed most years. Until this year. Big bill. 15 year old car. Had advisories and a few minor issues before but nothing major.

We have a 12 year old Mazda 3 (almost 13 I guess, it’s a 62 plate) and it’s only ever failed once, 3 years ago. It was an easy fix though so passed the next day after the work was done. We know the brake pads will need to be done before the next MOT though so we’re getting that sorted soon.

The Corsa we had before the Mazda was a nightmare in comparison. Every single MOT it needed work done and it cost us a small fortune every year. The woman who crashed into it and wrote it off while it was parked did us a massive favour to be honest.

Mine hasnt but when taking my dm car once it failed due to one tyre. Guy told me just to go and get it sorted and then come back. Which I did and it then passed. In NI so we have Mot centres. Due to a decision by the Minister who deals with MOT I got an exemption from my Mot for 1 year. It is an absolute nightmare trying to book your car for the MOT. If you wait for the letter to advise you it is too late.

My car will be 13 years old this year. Previous owner was an older gent who had it from new.

I've owned it around ten years. I've had a friend give it a service and MOT almost every year. The service is nothing too expensive. Nowhere near what the main dealer charges.

The one year I did take it elsewhere for an MOT it was the main dealer and it failed due to the height of the headlight beam. As this is adjusted from a dial on the dashboard they set the correct height and retested without me knowing it had failed until it picked it up. The only fail it's ever had.

They put the tyres on advisory too but having measured tread depth myself I knew they were fine. They were just looking for an upsell. Makes me glad I can trust my friend.

@Negroany yes? The car doesn't have to be serviced at the dealership, you can take it anywhere
It's no issue to me where you get it serviced or whether you do or not, but explaining to customers that no the warranty isn't valid and that engine management light isn't covered because they didn't have any service done on it isn't a fun time

We fix faults under warranty day in and day out, thousands of pounds worth

And you work for a dealership you say........ 🤔

If it's new then no you don't have to get the car serviced but it will invalidate the manufacturers warranty
It would be really really stupid not to service a new car while it's still under that
(I work for a dealership so deal with this stuff daily)

As an example that has happened, you buy a brand new car and miss the first service. Engine goes at 18 months old. You've invalidated the warranty so now facing a 15k repair bill
Or you had the service and it's all covered

Weird.

I've never had a lease car nor bought new. My car is nine years old, over 100k and has never broken down. My last car did 220k miles, never broke down, never didn't start.

I'm not sure who is getting these "huge repair bills" but it's not me. I did just pay £600 for new brakes and discs, but they are consumable items so need replacing now and then. Not a "repair bill" as such.

I've not noticed myself bouncing up and down or over kerbs. I'm not sure how that follows at all. As I don't get my car serviced surely I'd drive more carefully if anything?

You quite simply do not "have to" at all. I've never had a new car, so never had a warranty to invalidate (a total scam anyway!) as they don't transfer to new owners.

But even if you do have a new car, you still don't "have to" get your car serviced.

Because you have to. Your car manual specifies how often your car should be serviced. If you have a new car and don't get it serviced, it completely invalidates your warranty. Even if you don't drive your car a lot (mine does fewer than 4k miles a year) you should still do full service annually or at the very least top up fluids, change oil, power steering fluid intermittently.

In 17 years, I have failed MOT only once. 10 of those years I have owned two cars. So yes, fairly normal.

Yes this.
We've had this before with customers

We also service it every year. Basic oil and filter one year. Major sevice, all filters. Gear box oil change and whatnot, the following and so forth.

Yes never had a failure and 2 advisories in 10 years

@Beepbeepoutoftheway so in 12 years your car was not serviced and passed every mot, so it never had tyres? Brakes? Other general wear and tear? Tyres over 8 years old need changing regardless of wear.

Unless it never went further than the end of the road you're talking nonsense! The oil filter alone will have rusted to dust in that time without a change.

Passes most of the time. It's sailed through the last 3 MOTS with no advisories. Not bad for a car that's getting on a bit.

I get it serviced every other year.

@Beepbeepoutoftheway yes but you were lucky! Many cars wouldn't have and it could have ended up needing a whole new engine
For the sake of paying for an oil and filter change

Manky enough that it still continued going though.

My vehicle is 34 years old. Passes MOT nine times out of ten- probably because there's not much to go wrong on it as it's so old!

Oil after 12 years will be absolutely manky though
I don't service mine as often as some but 12 years is asking for issues, it'll be like sludge

I had it for 12 years and in that time, it never had a service.

In 17 years, your car never had an oil and air filter change? or do you mean a garage service?

Even if you did just 5k a year, thats 85000 miles....

Most car oil change intervals on an older car will be yearly/6000 to 10000 miles.