Ooops, missed the MOT!

[DaiRees]

Was servicing the wife's Fucus yesterday when it occurred to me that the MOT must be due soon, I seem to recall it being due in April. Sent her to check and, yup, due in April...... on the 1st (aren't we fools!) . Guess I need to find somewhere that'll do it tomorrow then! Got a really busy day at work too!

That's 48 years of owning and running cars between us and we've never missed an MOT before, must be getting old! Why don't they do MOT reminders like Tax reminders?

[GingerMagic]

I agree, what MOT garages should do is give you a piece of paper with the due date of the MOT on it, that you can use as a reference for next year......

[DaiRees]

I agree, what MOT garages should do is give you a piece of paper with the due date of the MOT on it, that you can use as a reference for next year......

You wait 'til you get to my age Kelv, can't remember having breakfast let alone what happened a year ago

[markw]

Why don't they do MOT reminders

For the sum of £1.50 a year, they do!

https://www.gov.uk/getting-an-mot/mot-t ... er-service

[Doggy]

....or you can check online for free, if you have the V5 document no.

[steve_earwig]

No year planner? How about have the date tattooed onto your thigh?

[DaiRees]

Why don't they do MOT reminders

For the sum of £1.50 a year, they do!

https://www.gov.uk/getting-an-mot/mot-t ... er-service

Well buggah me, never knew that!

[DaiRees]

No year planner? How about have the date tattooed onto your thigh?

Would have to be the wife's thigh, it's her car
Sure I can think of better things to do with her thighs....

[GingerMagic]

I agree, what MOT garages should do is give you a piece of paper with the due date of the MOT on it, that you can use as a reference for next year......

You wait 'til you get to my age Kelv, can't remember having breakfast let alone what happened a year ago

I'm only a year or so behind you. I bought some GU10 light bulbs today for the kitchen and when I got home I put them in the fridge....

Doesn't look good, hopefully I'll keep forgetting about my bad memory

[dirtydirtydiesel]

Was servicing the wife's Fucus yesterday when it occurred to me that the MOT must be due soon, I seem to recall it being due in April. Sent her to check and, yup, due in April...... on the 1st (aren't we fools!) . Guess I need to find somewhere that'll do it tomorrow then! Got a really busy day at work too!

That's 48 years of owning and running cars between us and we've never missed an MOT before, must be getting old! Why don't they do MOT reminders like Tax reminders?

Or you'd forgoten that you missed them , Oh & yuck fou at the getting old bit
ps. we write stuff like that on the callender now, all this sorn/mot/tax bxxxxxs & with 2 car's & five motor bikes it gives me a headache
Not to mention needing to keep hold of any info regarding the sale of said vehicals due to sorn

[Welly]

My MOT place write to me about 4 weeks before it's due..........just long enough for me to forget all about it again

[scotty73]

ps. we write stuff like that on the callender now, all this sorn/mot/tax bxxxxxs & with 2 car's & five motor bikes it gives me a headache
Not to mention needing to keep hold of any info regarding the sale of said vehicals due to sorn

It's the best way to do it... Dai can write MOT due ../4/2015 on his 2014 callender then on new years day recycle this years callender and forget all about everything he wrote on the old one... Then we'll have a groundhog day thread a year from today.

[trufflehunt]

There's also a number of free MOT Reminder services online. They send email reminders,
and as usual .. the price of online free... is offers.

[steve_earwig]

They're hard to get hold of here (make that impossible) but what you need is a calendar that has space next to the dates for writing stuff like MOT dates, insewerants whatever, plus birthdays or important anniversaries. When you start a new one you can go through the old one and transfer everything into it. As your MOT was on April 1st I'd stick a note on March 31st to say the MOT's coming up, just so it appears on the previous month and you don't turn the page to a nice surprise.

I absolutely cannot remember dates: Wedding anniversary? Umm, October maybe? Wife's birthday? May the umm, 8th? 10th? Around there somewhere

[Doggy]

If your MOT's the 1st of April, there's no earthly reason you wouldn't put it in on the 1st March, it's not as if it's a national holiday or anything.