MOT retest - help!

[GunpowderGelatine]

Took my car for its MOT on Friday and the guy testing it said that we need new front tyres "yesterday"but he was passing it and putting the tyres down as an advisory. I booked the tyres to be changed today however due to illness I've had to rearrange. When I rang they said I was booked in for a retest! It's been years since I took a car for a MOT and the piece of paper I have says "pass". I've checked the gov.uk website too and it says it's MOT'd until June 2020 - but could he be right and I need a retest or will it be an error?

They couldn't be illegal ten minutes later, don't be ridiculous. Not unless she did a few thousand miles in the ten minutes!

I didn't say anything about wearing out - you did. They could just as easily clip a kerb and take a chunk out of the sidewall. Instant illegal tyre in less time than it took me to type this.

Advisories are wake ups for people who do not keep an eye on their cars for 364 days of the year.
They will need changing shortly which is why they were advisory and not failures, but in any event before the next time you check the car over - the day before the next test
If the tyres "should have been changed yesterday", I'd call them borderline with that comment
IF you were to have a RTC, the condition of the tyres may well be called into question, irrespective of what the MOT says (that may be your plea in mitigation) and if the accident investigation even suggest that their condition could have been a contributory factor your insurers can and usually will refuse to cover the loss.
It's then up to you, at your expense to enforce their cover through the Courts.
Much better, rather than dissect the details with advice on here to replace them as soon as possible.
Research the best price though as above

Oh yeah, I didn't think about damage

Hi. I took my Ford fiesta for its annual service and mot to my main Ford dealership in May 2019. The car passed its Mot but had an advisory note saying that "Offside play in steering rack inner joints ". I booked the car in to have this rectified plus brake pads being replaced. When I collected the car and was advised that when the car was put on a different ramp there was not any sign of wear and they didn't replace the joints. Contacted the DVSA saying about the garage not finding fault with the inner joints and their reply was it is only advisory and wouldn't remove the advisory. They would only do if I can produce evidence. The dealership sent DVSA a note and still DVSA won't remove.
Jobs worth.

Kwikfit don't use mechanics, they train teenagers to fit tyres and wiper blades.

If you want the opinion of someone who knows no more than your Auntie Susan about cars, by all means give Kwikfit a try.

I took my car to kwikfit I had it booked in for 2 new tyres and THEN the mot when I dropped it off I said its having the tyres done first I went back 2hrs later to find out thay had failed my car on the 2 tyres I asked them to take the failed MOT certificate away thay said thay can't do that and I had to pay for a retest due to my old mot had run out I had my car for 6years and this was the first fail never going back again

@GunpowderGelatine if it has passed its mot then it won't need to be tested again until next year when the certificate runs out.

Re-tests are only for vehicles that have failed the MOT.

Advisories don't fail an MOT, they are listed so that you can get them fixed as they could well turn into a major problem, but at the time of testing, advisories aren't serious enough to cause a failure.

Once you get any advisories checked and fixed you don't need to take it back as it's already passed and got a certificate for 12 months hence why it says that it's passed on the gov uk website

Shirl66
If l understand correctly, the new tyres were being fitted at the same visit, and your request was that the tyres were changed first?

If so, and that was the only item it failed on, and you left it there for a partial retest, it is free according to VOSA

If the above is correct, report them and kick up a stink for a full refund of the out of pocket expense as well as the retest fee

From the Vosa website -
"Leaving your vehicle for repair
You only need a partial retest if you leave the vehicle at the test centre for repair and it’s retested within 10 working days. There’s no fee for this."

My DF used to run a garage not too far from KwikFit. They'd sometimes send him the cars they fucked up.