Car in MOT who else hates waiting

[ZippyCat]

So car in the mot I've decided to sit and wait because it's got no easy access to anything anyway I'm Sat here thinking am I the only one who hates their mot time ?

I usually leave my car with them rather than wait.
The waiting rooms are usually freezing cold and dirty. Magazines are usually based on cars or sports - no catering for women and the coffee machine never works properly.
Or maybe that’s just because I use the smaller independent garages. Are you at a main dealer?

I take mine to a place near work so I don't have to wait, drop it in the morning, pick it up later. I still get twitchy waiting for the phone call to say it's ready (or not). I do the same with tyre changes, we are fortunate to have good independents for both within 5 mins walk of work. I agree the waiting areas aren't great, cold and cramped.

I get my car MOT'd and serviced at the same time, and it's painful.

I got mine done last Monday.

I use a garage the other side of town to where I now live. It's a lovely independent place, that I used to be able to walk to and from. In previous years I felt like they'd been quite quick. But I think in hindsight I'd been able to spend the waiting time in my cozy home!

This time I dropped the car off at 9:30, went to a cafe, traipsed around the local area, explored a new build estate, and was just losing the will to live when I eventually got the call about 2:30 that it was ready. Snooze!

I walk the 3 miles home rather than wait there, but still hate waiting for the call. Feel on edge all day.

I get the service and MOT done at the same time, at a garage walking distance from home. It takes about 5 hours in total, so no way am I going to go anywhere else. I appreciate that many people don't have a garage that's walking distance from home. You have my sympathy.

We have to take our cars to government run MOT centres in N Ireland. It's all fairly efficient (once you get an appointment) but I feel so anxious waiting. When I first learned to drive, you had to take your own car through and they would bark all these instructions at you LEFT INDICATOR! RIGHT INDICATOR! DIPPED LIGHTS! FULL BEAMS! I used to forget where everything was in my sheer panic. The number of times I sounded the horn by mistake🤣 Then you had to drive your car onto a very narrow ramp, where it was raised up on a mechanical lift and the bloke stood underneath the car shouting at you to wiggle the steering wheel etc. It was horrendous, but at least it passed the time! Now they just take the car and run it through for you. Takes about 15 minutes.

We always drop off , that why pass or fail I’ve not wasted my time .

We present our vehicles as 'MOT ready' and I'm the designated take for MOT driver for them all - give it a good clean underneath inside outside the lot. Check over everything for play or wear, order parts and replace where necessary, then take it in. But it helps we have the tools and the knowledge in our house. So I quite like our MOTs as the MOT station knows us well (almost 30 years) and they like our cars for being easy to MOT as they're clean underneath and everything is shipshape. As a result they're only in just for the MOT at the allotted time, there's never a query/issue/problem, I am often paying the bill and collecting the keys before I've drunk my coffee and the receptionist and I have caught up on the local gossip (known her even longer).

Oh, I hate that. Could be £90, could be £900. My dad used to pace up and down smoking anytime his car was in the garage and now I know WHY!

I get them to do it whilst I'm at work.

I don't stay for mine but I do keep refreshing the online government check my MOT webpage to see if it is showing as passed.

I will be doing this at half 2 tomorrow. Can't say I'm looking forward to it.

Mine was in for its MOT yesterday and I had to drop it off at 8am and collect it at 12 noon. I went for a long walk and stopped off for a coffee, it as actually quite a pleasant morning.

I hate it. I always drop off and wait for the dreaded call of how many £100's it will cost me.

Mine is Thursday morning I'll have to wait and pray I can drive it 2 miles home if no serious failures.
I absolutely hate it.
Been waiting and worrying for 3 weeks as I know one thing that's wrong with it; but I'm not paying anything until I know what else is wrong.

It's an old car, I'm skint so I've set a ££ limit.

Otherwise I'll have to find another car, but my gosh 2nd hand v expensive.

I live rural and have to have a car.

😔

I get it serviced at the same time. He picks the car up from my house and drops it off again.

Just a garage local it turns out that it's failed sadly now they need to keep my car I could cry it's awaiting a quote tomorrow morning only has this car 2 months

I wish I'd done this mine failed and had to walk an hour home 😩

Same here I'm rural it failed I had to walk home I'm gutted awaiting quote tomorrow I have a 2017 vehicle so not new only had it 2 months ughhh

I’ve never sat and waited for a mot, I used to go to a garage walkable from work and now I can often work from home I use a garage 10mins walk away.

I couldn’t be bothered sitting around or killing time waiting for it, and it’s usually done during the week when I’m at work so I’m not going to book time off just to sort my car out.

What did it fail on?

I deliberately choose an MOT centre that is near shops and cafes that I like to visit. When we had 2 cars DH used to follow me, I dropped off my car early and then he would take me to work.

We now have an electric car that won't need an MOT until 2026. I think we will have to take it back to the dealer for its NOT which is annoying as it's on an industrial estate.

Oh my god! That’s awful! I would have had to get someone else to do it for me 🤣

I find dealers will usually collect and drop off for free at your home if you book in advance. That’s what I do now!

Believe me it wasn’t for want of trying!!