Tips for remembering MOT date

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Does anyone have good tips for how to remember the MOT & tax dates (paper calendar aside), my brain can't take on any more remembering things esp with all the delayed dates and does that change the annual MOT date? All tips appreciated

I do:

Paper calendar reminders 5,4,3 weeks before the date

Also put reminders into my phone

You can sign up for an email alert

www.gov.uk/mot-reminder

You'll get a letter when your car tax is due, so no need to remember. I also get a call from my garage when my MOT is due. I put the date in my phone calender and set it to notify me 2 weeks before it's due.

Set a reminder in your phone calendar and make sure it’s set to alert you. Maybe do it the month before it’s due to expire so you have time to get organised.

I write it in my diary a few weeks before due - “ book mot”!

Get the DLVA to email you a reminder. www.gov.uk/mot-reminder
If you pay the Car Tax by DD, renewal is automatic, so avoids being untaxed

@Helloguvnor

You'll get a letter when your car tax is due, so no need to remember. I also get a call from my garage when my MOT is due. I put the date in my phone calender and set it to notify me 2 weeks before it's due.

Who do you get a letter from? I've never had one, is that something you need to sign up for too, I like the email reminder link

I get a text sent to me a month before.

Put it in your Google calendar along with birthdays and other stuff that happen every year.

@Greendoonan

Put it in your Google calendar along with birthdays and other stuff that happen every year.

I don't have a google calendar, is it compulsory

I've signed up for the email reminder now but would still like to have a double reminder like the letter @Helloguvnor gets

As PP said you can sign up for a reminder from DVLA. Up to three cars I think and they remind you a month before.

@Helloguvnor

You'll get a letter when your car tax is due, so no need to remember. I also get a call from my garage when my MOT is due. I put the date in my phone calender and set it to notify me 2 weeks before it's due.

Tax reminder letters are very hit and miss so I wouldn't rely on always getting one!

I don't have a google calendar, is it compulsory
You basically can’t live your life without it, you need a Google account to sign into virtually everything!

I always get a letter about my car tax though the post.

I’ve never not got one. Going back to the days when you needed to take the letter to the post office and got a disc to display in return!

[quote Peakedin1997]www.gov.uk/mot-reminder[/quote]
Thank you!!
I'm pretty organised but this is the one thing that slips, even now I was convinced it was December but apparently is 3 months earlier all signed up now

Alerts in phone for everything

The easy way I remember it, is that it is the same as last year's date but I just add 1 to the year.

Put the date on a sticker inside your filler cap.

@Greendoonan

I don't have a google calendar, is it compulsory You basically can’t live your life without it, you need a Google account to sign into virtually everything!

I expect that people with iphones manage perfectly well with the Apple equivalent. Some people might function well with neither.

I have a google account but never use the calendar. I have a spreadsheet with a list of tasks that I need to do every month on payday to keep on top of various financial things. One of the tasks is to check the annual list for anything like MOTs or insurance renewals coming up and action accordingly.

As for the MOT due date, the covid extension was a one off for tests due in a certain period last year. All those cars should now have been MOTd, more or less. Going forward, it's almost certainly a year from the date of last test. But you can get it done up to a month early and still keep the same expiry date. EG if your test was due on 28 Feb 2021 and you had it done today, it would need doing again before 28 Feb 2022.

@Greendoonan

I don't have a google calendar, is it compulsory You basically can’t live your life without it, you need a Google account to sign into virtually everything!

I don't have a Google calendar or an iPhone yet manage everyday to do my job, bring up my children and generally live my life with no issues and have done for 50 years, pretty sure I'm not doing it wrong but maybe you aren't as good at it as me

Thanks all!

I also meant to add..... for those of you married to men, are they any help in this remembering and booking department? It's all on me here so wondering how it is for others

@BarbaraofSeville I love excel too