adventures in car sitting · 3:00pm Mar 21st, 2014
good grief, I'm still shaking. Cars and MOTs, guys. I'm serious, they're not for the faint of heart.
Protip if ever there was one: go before it's supposed to be due. Don't do it 7 days late when your car's not been serviced and the sodding computer in the car is having a pissy fit about some minor, momentary malfunction because THE MAN will threaten to take your car away, causing you to have a minor heart attack and break several land speed records finding a garage that isn't a piece of shit and can spare five fucking minutes to read and reset the OBD and then get back to the MOT place before they shut down, all the while panicking about whether the stupid momentary, fleeting, insignificant minor malfunction is going to fuck you up.
I'm this close to crying about it. I don't handle official pressure well.
Ouch, that stinks. But hey, look at it this way, you didn't get screwed over
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well after a minor heart attack and bad case of the tremblies, it did only cost me $30 more than it should have.
Ouch, seriously. MOT being ministry of transport to make sure the acronym is right? Im sorry you had a shitty time, and regardless of the crud, hope this stress passes quickly.
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You know I'm not actually sure what MOT means? For some reason I have never asked google to tell me. But what it is, is a yearly checkup on your car for road-worthiness.
1943957 sounds like what google defined, but still, the crooked mechanics are pretty much everywhere stateside in that, so a rare non-crook is tricky to find, though the worthy-ness of the car rarely is checked most places. usually only police looking for easy tickets.