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guineafowl21
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Nice one!
With today’s MOT history checks, I think a car’s resale value will improve if it’s got a few years of no-advisory passes behind it.
I used to hand our cars in earlyish for MOT and let the tester give me a to-do list (the fail certificate). Now I set aside a few hours on a weekend and make damn sure they’ll go straight through.
My non-mechanic mates will drop off a car for MOT and say, ‘just get it through’. To me, this is the equivalent of giving the wife a credit card and a ticket to Oxford Street and saying ‘get yourself some new outfits’. Madness.
With today’s MOT history checks, I think a car’s resale value will improve if it’s got a few years of no-advisory passes behind it.
I used to hand our cars in earlyish for MOT and let the tester give me a to-do list (the fail certificate). Now I set aside a few hours on a weekend and make damn sure they’ll go straight through.
My non-mechanic mates will drop off a car for MOT and say, ‘just get it through’. To me, this is the equivalent of giving the wife a credit card and a ticket to Oxford Street and saying ‘get yourself some new outfits’. Madness.
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If not it's value then certainly it's salability. Just bought a ten year old Honda CR-V on the basis of a totally clean mot record.
guineafowl21
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How could you? Brazen, coming in here and posting that. Wash your wallet out with soap and water!
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Easily! The wife needs a reliable runaround while I save for the new chassis for the D2
Don't worry, normal service will be resumed in due course
Don't worry, normal service will be resumed in due course
Nodge68
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How could you? Brazen, coming in here and posting that. Wash your wallet out with soap and water!
I don't mind the CR-V as a way to move people about. It's just a Freelander rip off with all the Freelander's character parts replaced by boring parts. Sadly removing the characterful parts hurts it's off road ability some what.
monkfish24
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Mine passed it's MOT today also. No surprise, I just fitted new calipers, drop links, spark plugs and HT leads. Just a few advisories on disc brakes being corroded but no surprise there in Cornwall and it being sat for quite a few months doing nothing.
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It’s very easy to check a vehicles MOT history on line these days and it’s the first thing I do when browsing for a new motor, or dreaming more like.
It is very apparent that many folk just put their car in for test and hope for the best, judging by the number of failures followed by a pass with advisory. Advisories don’t put me off but failures do, particularly for relatively minor reason items. Which brings me to a puzzling failure which appears common to the Freelander as it often crops up in MOT history , indeed its featured twice in my own!
Rear indicators show incorrect colour.
Anyone else suffered from faded bulbs?
It is very apparent that many folk just put their car in for test and hope for the best, judging by the number of failures followed by a pass with advisory. Advisories don’t put me off but failures do, particularly for relatively minor reason items. Which brings me to a puzzling failure which appears common to the Freelander as it often crops up in MOT history , indeed its featured twice in my own!
Rear indicators show incorrect colour.
Anyone else suffered from faded bulbs?
Ive just got rid of my wifes 15 year old Auto CRV petrol and bought a manual TD4 cos the CRV's MPG was utterly crap!
guineafowl21
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Yes, that’ll be the silly coloured bulbs on the newer types - Instead of an orange lens and ordinary bulb. The colour peels off and the indicator becomes too white.
kernowsvenski
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I've had that as an advisory two years in a row on mine.
Bonkers
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I’ve sadly had the same issue as a failure in 2011 and again this year. Maybe the amount of colour fade is subjective.
teddywood1
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My wife’s freelander 1800 1998 sails through mot every year my freelander 2006 hse always has a little problem
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