Hi,

Just wondering is it allowed for a Garage to MOT their own cars they are selling?

Can find any info about it at all. I would have personally though that you can't due to a personal interest. But, from what I have learned over the last few weeks about car dealers, they can do what they want when selling cars. and it's up to the buyer if they can, to prove the seller is in the wrong which is nigh on impossible as we have found out.

H

 

Of course they can

 

Obviously how do you think all the major dealers do it?
Rich

 

As above they can.

I take it you or someone you know is having a disagreement with a garage?

 

Bit shady though
Been there done that and suffered the dodgy repercussions

 

Shady garages are shady garages reguardless of whether they MOT their own cars or not every Main Dealer MOT's their own cars.
Rich

 

I bought my car from a large main dealer and it should have failed the MOT so I told them that I was considering appealing the MOT ! The reaction was something to behold.

 

we sell on average 10-15 cars per week at our place. every car is serviced and mot'd in house. if they need anything they get it. this way we ensure that the cars are as good as they can be when they leave us. we do,on occasion sell some of our cheaper p/x's that have some mot left on,but we do still mot them as they are all sold with full mot,regardless of age/price etc. if they are uneconomical for us to repair and sell,they get sent to auction.

 

My mate Mot's his own car as he's a tester. I always thought this was a dodgy but apparently not

 

No point in trying to police it really, as if it were to become illegal to MOT your own vehicles, then all two garages would do was MOT each others cars. Plus, how many garages would put the vehicle in their name anyway, so the MOT would be untraceable via the logbook of previous recorded keepers anyway.

Bottom line is, that if someone wants a dodgy MOT on a car then it is way too easy to do so.

 

There was an article in the mot magazine a few months ago saying that they are goin to bring in a rule where you can't mot you own vehicles and family/ friends vehicles, fuck knows how there going to do it but it was there in black and white print, all tester will have had the magazine as its only test stations that receive it, it's called matters of testing or something like that!

 

Will have to have a look for that. ^^^^^^

 

That normally gets filed instantly.

 

failed the mot on corrosion in the sills, 2 days later passes at another garage that sold the car to me saying the works all done

1 year later fails on corrosion in the sills and when the rotten sills were pulled apart they had lasdt years newspaper in there

vosa were intrested

 

Theres no reason why you shouldn't test your own vehicle. If you follow the correct procedures and to the same standards then the result will be no different.

I have failed my own cars before.

 

Seems like its open to abuse.

Isn't there a rule about places like Royal Mail etc. not being able to MOT vehicles in-house?
thought i remember hearing something about that.

 

if you own the only garage in a remote part of the country your not going to drive 30 miles to get an MOT if you can do it yourself, if you MOT your own car youd want it to be safe surely

 

deffo open to abuse, i once bought a orion 1600e in the mid 90's from the trade in sales site of the local ford main dealership, they put 12 mouths mot on it on purchase, im 99% sure they didnt even look at it let alone mot it, the head lights were out of adjustment, indicator bulb blown, needed wipers, didnt take the car back as i didnt want to lose it for a day as i needed it for work, didn't buy from them again

all they did to it was valet it and change the oil and filter, due to in house warrenty

 

Thats why its open to abuse, there are a few dodgy testers out there, but at the same time, some of the test makes no sense, but rules are rules.
If you don't report it then that's another one that got away with it.