62 plate 1st mot

Yes, loads of times, and when you test it and print the pass there's no previous test shown on the cert. The MOT check website shows the correct data, IE MOT required, but there's a glitch in the DVSA system.
Comp2 strikes again

I have had same issue as well

just over a week to go, and it will be 2016! therefore we should start having 2013 vehicles in for test. ? or is my maths wrong?

phaetonott wrote:

"Still haven't used 2012's new fail, TPMS MIL shows a fault "

had a car in last week, not for mot, but had dodgy tyre pressures,,,,,or so the car thought! but checked tyres and all ok. apparently ecu was going up swanee.!

the punter has since traded it in. cheaper than repair!

It's probs best not to put yourself in that position ,my advice would be to throw the des ion back at the presenter and let them make the call,by all means tell them what you've found,databases can be wrong therefore confirmation should be retrieve from the official departments where conflicting info is .
For anyone to tell them when the vehicle is due for an mot is the DVSA
At the end of the day its the presenters responsibility to find out and know when they vehicle needs an mot and arrange a test ,they just have to look at the log book and work out the date.
Vehicles that have a date of registration will require an mot at 3 years ,however imports that don't have a date of registration need testing at 3 years from year of manufacture .

I tell my testers to use common sense & not follow the 'this vehicle is too early to test' message.

If a customer brings a vehicle in requesting its first mot, and the message pops up, then it is quick and easy to look at vehicle registration date and work out that the test is actually now due.

Checking the dvla database, if it show 'no record held' for the mot, then it hasn't had one.

This conversation came up before, and those of us who said just get on and test the vehicles got accused of poor customer service - It isn't our remit as testers to second 'guess' what is right and what is wrong within the database.

One thing that we can make sure of being correct and also what is actually our job, is to just get on and test the car being presented by the owner - At least a definitive record of an mot and/or vehicle record is created.

In my opinion it isn't wise to advise anything to a customer about mot due dates, especially with the known errors that are in the database at the moment.