My Fabia is 3 years old on the 4th June, and hence it is due for a first MOT and the warranty will expire.

I've never had a car this young before, so I have a question! Is it worth getting it MOT'd before then incase it throws up anything that could be fixed under warranty? Or IS there anything that is tested on the MOT that is a warranty item?

I was thinking of getting it tested at the local backstreet MOT place and then if anything needs fixing take it to skoda!

Yup well worth getting it MOT'd early.

Remember to supply the MOT test station with your V5 are whatever its currently called, so that they can start the first MOT period from the correct date. Until not that long ago (in years), if you took the car for its first MOT early then you lost the remaining time left up to its third "birthday" - this might not seem a problem, but timewise it all adds up. Also I would think that you should take it to a franchised dealer as they are not likely to sweep any problems under the carpet just because its almost out of warranty - they get paided for doing this work from Skoda. Or am I being niave?

The V5 wont be needed with the new computerised system. It wil be recorded when your MOT is due from and wont let you do it too early.

Ross is right as usual the VOSA computer uses the DVLA datbase so it knows when the car was registered, you can only get it dated if its tested a calender month less a day beforehand

HTH

Phil

My Fabia is 3 years old on the 4th June, and hence it is due for a first MOT and the warranty will expire.

I've never had a car this young before, so I have a question! Is it worth getting it MOT'd before then incase it throws up anything that could be fixed under warranty? Or IS there anything that is tested on the MOT that is a warranty item?

I was thinking of getting it tested at the local backstreet MOT place and then if anything needs fixing take it to skoda!

Our vRS was due its MOT Mar 07 (we bought it Dec 06, from Dealer - so 1 year Dealer Warranty).

I, too, was in a quandry as to what to do MOT time (re possible warranty work) - as for the past 10 years have used the same 'local' mechanic i.e. would he find something that would then have to be argued over with the Dealers.

We had in the meantime received a postcard reminder from the Dealers. Armed with a little info from this site I decided to ring up.

It turned out - as we'd bought the car from them - we were part of their Loyalty Members Club and the MOT would be half-price.

I decided to act dumb (easy, peasy) and questioned the 'procedure and expected time to wait' while the car was MOT'd.

Oh no, sir, we do free pickup and delivery.

Result -

Our vRS was due its MOT Mar 07 (we bought it Dec 06, from Dealer - so 1 year Dealer Warranty).

I, too, was in a quandry as to what to do MOT time (re possible warranty work) - as for the past 10 years have used the same 'local' mechanic i.e. would he find something that would then have to be argued over with the Dealers.

We had in the meantime received a postcard reminder from the Dealers. Armed with a little info from this site I decided to ring up.

It turned out - as we'd bought the car from them - we were part of their Loyalty Members Club and the MOT would be half-price.

I decided to act dumb (easy, peasy) and questioned the 'procedure and expected time to wait' while the car was MOT'd.

Oh no, sir, we do free pickup and delivery.

Result -

Limit is 1.6mm

>Though an earlier post stated dealer would be happy to pick up on faults as they get paid under warranty, so would therefore have got a nice expensive job that may have passed them by

I'm inclined to think this is the more likely case - the Dealers have an on-site MOT station ( I should think this is independently administered and very rigorously checked by VOSA - or whoever is responsible for MOT stations).

In any case the whole affair suited us perfectly on all counts

>Though an earlier post stated dealer would be happy to pick up on faults as they get paid under warranty, so would therefore have got a nice expensive job that may have passed them by

I'm inclined to think this is the more likely case - the Dealers have an on-site MOT station ( I should think this is independently administered and very rigorously checked by VOSA - or whoever is responsible for MOT stations).

In any case the whole affair suited us perfectly on all counts

No doubt about it, it is just when it comes to cars, repairs and I, I become a nervous wreck :thumbdwn:

Usually because I have never had anything other than rent a wreck before

Once I bought a car on Thursday

I am now totally paranoid of the new to me VRS I have just bought 30 months old convinced the guy must have been using it a Knockhill every night :(

I did wonder

Trouble is, also, you come on here for advice / snippets / whatever - and then start questioning every single tap, knock, bump, rattle.

I know I was worried about two things - one was a noise from the front over speed humps. Turned out if I take these particular nasty ones at lower speeds there is no noise - i.e. at over 20mph it was the front tapping on the ground (never had car with lowered suspension before).

2nd was dull clunk from front wheels area - turns out to be stones hitting the front (plastic ?) wheelarch inners - there is very little clearance here on the vRS, on the Cavalier these would have been flung out sideways, or gone unnoticed.

My daughter booked her Ibiza into the local dealer for its MOT in early January - while she was still on holiday from work (teacher), at the last minute she got phone call cancelling the booking due to staff shortages (sick - flu etc). On my advice she booked it into our local Kwik Fit (she needed the job done within her holiday period), the car passed okay but she got a written advisery due to the front pads needing changing - worn down to near limit - I forget the actual friction material thickness, but I seem to remember that they would have been hard pushed to fail the next MOT. This was not cautious advise this was blackmail and fraud, but I had better things to worry about so I just replaced them - I was a bit anoyed about that - I just mentioned this seeing as national mentioned "them" and he only lives about 30 miles from me - might be a local "work search" for Kwik Fit!

Mine failed its MOT first time on very stupid things, like leaving the sat nav holder on the screen!

Made me laugh as the shed the guy has passed for me a few months didn't have as much trouble as my fabia did.

Still nothing that 2 hours of my time didn't put right.

Some MOT stations jusr do not like new cars...............this place is one of them