ffs, had to happen to me

[THE_Liam]

this sounds ridiculously anal. They best be paying for your MOT!

Dont be silly. The police have the right to tell you to re mot your car if they feel the need and rightly so. Whilst i dont doubt that Sams car is road worthy, there are a lot of people out that that do drive utter shit heaps that are fit for the scrap yard only yet still get MOTs.

I'm sorry mate I don't agree with this. If any copper can just order you to have a new MOT done because your car is modified, and their wrong and your car passes, why should you have to pay the fee for their misguided suspicion?

Potentially this could happen 3-4 times a year and cost you £150 in test fees when you haven't done anything wrong or illegal.

If your car has an MOT, it has an MOT, end of. If it has an obvious fault such as bald tyres, lights out or dodgy plates that's fair enough, but when they can't see anything wrong, they just suspect?

Also, it seems too many coppers don't know what's legal and what isn't when it comes to cars, surely a traffic officer should know that? I once got pulled by a traffic copper because e saw me filling up with veg in Asda car park, and he asked ME if it was legal...