The MOT Pass Day Celebratory Photograph

NFalcon · 2025-09-17T03:50:26-0400

As mentioned by yours truly here

2015 24 kWh Acenta: Resurrection possible or Scrap? 171 days later Sorted and returned to motoring for pleasure!!

I have a tradition of taking a celebratory photograph of the trusty vehicle on MOT passing day.

This is usually followed by a motoring for pleasure reward drive ie no commuting or going to the shops but a proper day out drive.

The MOT pass I feel is a significant event in motoring life, particularly if you are running vehicles not in their first flush of youth. The latest pass for me being particularly so, should you have ploughed through the long saga of resurrection with me on the linked thread , to arrival at a successful MOT.

At the risk of a zero response thread I would invite others to join in with the tradition, and fill up the thread with some well deserved photos of their own vehicle with the proviso that they must be taken on MOT passing day itself.

This year's.. from yesterday from me....

Neil

PS for MOT substitute whatever "roadworthyness" official test which requires passing!
I very much like a decent name, for which I believe Germany takes the biscuit!

Hauptuntersuchung (HU) or TÜV test.

The Japanese Shaken (車検) runs it a close second!

SueH · 2025-09-17T05:12:16-0400

The Italian is boring: Revisione of which I knew very little: give the car to my retired mechanic, pay him 'in nero', naturalmente, and he would get it through the every two year event. My old Fabia really was a very solid little car.

Hgleaf278 · 2025-09-17T05:30:13-0400

And the French is Contrôle Technique.

Peirpoint · 2025-09-17T05:55:50-0400

Years ago my daily drive was a 1968 Triumph Vitesse hard top. (The Greenback).
A bit of the chassis had rotted away so I covered it with sticky labels and underseal the day before the MOT. It wasn't particularly structural.

It passed and there was a before and after Polaroid which I might still have.

The next journey was round the block twice with massive clouds of smoke causing danger to life and limb for hundreds of people on foot, on bicycles, in cars, buses and trucks.
It was a bit of a hoot, on the second lap looking at loads of people with their fog lights on was good fun too.

Seems I might have misread the dosing on the bottle of REDEX.
The very next journey up the hill to the squash club was definitely much improved.

A year later the emissions test was a definite pass rather than almost too close.

More stuff we no longer need to concern ourselves with as EV drivers.

Gaz

RolandButter · 2025-09-17T07:12:12-0400

Ah, it brings back memories of the Spanish ITV.

Turn up at a huge test centre, drive the car through a variety of bays where the technicians would bark instructions at you - subjecting the car to a range of 'checks'.

Each technician one would shake their head in turn as they took one look at the car and sucked in their teeth. Some would just point and laugh.

Finally you'd drive up to the desk where they would take hold of your ficha technica and down would come the ominous rubber stamp onto the red ink pad and thunk it would leave its permanent mark on your paperwork.

SIN DEFECTOS

NFalcon · 2025-09-17T14:28:35-0400

The German "MOT" on a Leaf

Subtitles can be auto translated. There may be nothing of interest in it at all, but I found the scraping off of the old sticker on the number plate and replacing it with a new one at the end of the test moderately entertaining and nice and old-fashioned...who remembers Tax Discs!

Tangental taxdisc art

Neil

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