So, as i understand it unless things have changed you can present your car for an MOT and preserve the anniversary of the expiry date as long as it under a month before times up.
The car is due an MOT what i though was the end last week in August, 25/08/2023.
Just had the reminder and its saying 09/08/2024.
So it looks like they're not honouring keeping the anniversary date for some reason.
I was aware of the time limit so i would of book it in under a month before it expired. This next one would be its 2nd MOT from new.
Need to dig the paperwork out i think...

I've just found the emails...

 

Thank you for confirming the 11/8/2023.  I can confirm that as the MOT is being carried out within 30 days of the due date, (9/9/2023) this will keep the original date.

 

The service can be carried out 28 days before or after the due date.



****ers! Looks like I've lost a month already.


 

Edited 15 June, 20241 yr by Gonzini

1 hour ago, Gonzini said:

****ers! Looks like I've lost a month already.

 

Check your MOT history here:-

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

 

Thanks. AG Falco

1 hour ago, Gonzini said:

So, as i understand it unless things have changed you can present your car for an MOT and preserve the anniversary of the expiry date as long as it under a month before times up.
The car is due an MOT what i though was the end last week in August, 25/08/2023.
Just had the reminder and its saying 09/08/2024.
So it looks like they're not honouring keeping the anniversary date for some reason.
I was aware of the time limit so i would of book it in under a month before it expired. This next one would be its 2nd MOT from new.
Need to dig the paperwork out i think...

I've just found the emails...

 

Thank you for confirming the 11/8/2023.  I can confirm that as the MOT is being carried out within 30 days of the due date, (9/9/2023) this will keep the original date.

 

The service can be carried out 28 days before or after the due date.



****ers! Looks like I've lost a month already.


 

 

 

I understood the rules to be a month earlier minus 1 day, so if it was due on the 9/9/23 the earliest would be the 10/8/23 so the 11th should have been fine.

 

If I read your post correctly, the car’s only had one MoT previously.  I don’t think the ‘one month’ applies to the first test, ie a month before the 3rd anniversary of its first being registered.  This is because there is no ‘previous Mot’ (referred to in the quotes) that’s running out.

 

By my thinking, then, say the car was registered 26th Aug 2019, the first test would be due 28th Aug ‘22.  But if you Mot’d it on 31st July, then the next and subsequent tests would be due 31st July.  You could the do the next one earlier in July and preserve the 31st date.  But unless you’d had its first text actually on 28th Aug, it’d never have that as a due date.

 

My Octavia, for instance was first reg’d 27th March 18, but it’s first Mot was done 25th Feb 21, so the due date each year is 24th Feb, and can be carried out one month minus one day before the due date.

If you do an Mot history check on the DVLA website, it should clarify everything.

 

Apologies if I’m wrong, but it does explain the apparent ‘lost month’.

Edited 16 June, 20241 yr by Baxlin

Typo error in my post above, should read ‘registered on 28th’ not 26th, sorry

Edited 16 June, 20241 yr by Baxlin

Cheers guys.
I've done some digging and its actually valid until the 09/09/24. Its actually had 2 MOT's now. this one will be the 3rd

Off the gov website that AG Falco linked to (forgot about that one...) which concurs with the paper one i have.

Date registered
10 September 2019
MOT valid until

9 September 2024

The email reminder makes it look as if its due on the much earlier date, its just a wind up...
I don't know why the keep moving the date forward, crappy system they have in place i guess.