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My 20 year old diesel brick just passed its MOT with zero advisories, weird as last 3 years same windscreen has had the same advisories for chips in it
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16 year old Citroen, last 4 MOTs all had advisories for a chip in the windscreen (but in a non-critical portion), this one didn't spot it at all.
Greenbank
BrickMan
VED and insurance are the big ones, MOT they rarely bother stopping folk for, if its less than a month I wouldn't view it as 'grace period', more like too many of them expired by <1 month to bother chasing and the database is maybe not updated like the insurance/MID and VED/dvla database is.
V50 buy petrol or D5, really not a fan of the 1.6 or 2.0 diesels unless they are <60k or you have a real warranty on them. Seen first hand a few of them die early, one mate bought one a few months back in the 'it was cheap enough it'll be OK' bracket, yeah, it wasn't*
*Oil pressure/volume problem so all top end, turbo gone for sure, bottom end they'll only know when take sump off, but TBH think he's just gonna put a salvage engine in and push it on. 82k with main dealer volvo till 40k, then independent since, looked like a good one, rest of it is very tidy nothing going etc.
My 20 year old diesel brick just passed its MOT with zero advisories, weird as last 3 years same windscreen has had the same advisories for chips in it, and the SRS light is inoperative, yet today they noticed none of these things, same place and all. On the up side, not one but TWO mechanics come out to say how tidy car was underneath.