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Dogsauce said:
People are apparently now panic-buying MOTs as the six month extension thing finished on 31 July. Unfortunately mine was due on the 1st, and won’t be done until the 21st. We’re out of the two-week quarantine on Saturday but still won’t be able to do a big shop :/
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I don't really get why?
Unless the MOT garages are becoming overwhelmed everywhere -- is this really the case?

For us, The Van's MOT due-date has been extended from April to mid-October :)

Our garage man (literally) around the corner from our house knows us really well, and we've not (yet!) seen any sign of his forecourt becoming overwhelmed with waiting cars, either.

And almost all his business is doing MOTs directly.
Or MOT-related at least -- they're not a general repair business.

So I'm not going to panic yet! :)
 
Went out to get a fan for my daughter as she can't cope with the heat. Sadly, none were available; we'll, what do you expect in this heat.
 
William of Walworth said:
I don't really get why?
Unless the MOT garages are becoming overwhelmed everywhere -- is this really the case?

For us, The Van's MOT due-date has been extended from April to mid-October :)

Our garage man (literally) around the corner from our house knows us really well, and we've not (yet!) seen any sign of his forecourt becoming overwhelmed with waiting cars, either.

And almost all his business is doing MOTs directly.
Or MOT-related at least -- they're not a general repair business.

So I'm not going to panic yet! :)
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I'm with Dogsauce. My MOT was due in April, so I took advantage of the deferral. By June, it had occurred to me that if everyone whose MOTs were up in the grace period tried to get their MOT done at the same time, the garages would be overwhelmed. Got mine done in June, to beat the rush.
 
i can see there being a bit of pressure on MOTs, since they will be dealing with the ones that got deferred as well as the ones that are due, but don't quite understand the huge rush as soon as garages opened again - they were extended 6 months, not all extended to the same date.

i'm intentionally hanging on a bit...
 
Puddy_Tat said:
i can see there being a bit of pressure on MOTs, since they will be dealing with the ones that got deferred as well as the ones that are due, but don't quite understand the huge rush as soon as garages opened again - they were extended 6 months, not all extended to the same date.

i'm intentionally hanging on a bit...
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Looks like I may have got it wrong then. Plus I now have an MOT date in the middle of festival season, which will be a pain if I still have this car whenever festivals start again. TBF, it's a banger that needed a look at and a service, so getting the MOT done when I did probably wasn't a bad idea. They still couldn't figure out where the steering fluid is leaking from.
 
my MOT would normally have been due in april - it's now due in october.

this also means i can bring MOT and servicing in to line (the amount of mileage i do is such that i get it serviced once a year) - when i bought the current puddymobile it had a new MOT but it took a few months to realise it had not been properly serviced...

just had a look at the online booking thing at my local garage - they are booked up tomorrow but have 4 MOT slots available on friday.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
my MOT would normally have been due in april - it's now due in october.

this also means i can bring MOT and servicing in to line (the amount of mileage i do is such that i get it serviced once a year) - when i bought the current puddymobile it had a new MOT but it took a few months to realise it had not been properly serviced...

just had a look at the online booking thing at my local garage - they are booked up tomorrow but have 4 MOT slots available on friday.
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This has had the benefit for me of the MOT month not now being the same month as the tax and insurance are due, so some small mercy from a cash flow perspective.
 
mx wcfc said:
This has had the benefit for me of the MOT month not now being the same month as the tax and insurance are due, so some small mercy from a cash flow perspective.
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yes - also moves my MOT further away from the tax, although usually managed to bat the MOT in to the next month's credit card

i will probably book it in a bit before it's due in case they find any problems - but doesn't look like i'll be making any journeys anywhere distant in the next couple of months
 
just a quick public service announcement (hope i'm stating the obvious to those here) but if your vehicle is 'tax free' you still have to go through the process of 'taxing' it each year (this was more obvious when you had to display a tax disc) you just don't actually hand any money over.

i've known one or two people think they just don't have to bother, which can land you in the shit...
 
We're down to our last 200 bog rolls. Might have to get some in.

Lidl was incredibly busy this morning but it wasn't very panicky. People were bulk buying nappies but that's cause they were on offer.
 
Yeah, we've started stockpiling. It was meant to be a gradual "build up to the collapse of society as we know it after brexit" stockpile, but it seems it might be a good idea ahead of Lockdown 2.
The only thing Sainsbury's was short of yesterday was tonic water - the same thing happened in March - so maybe people are just getting their priorities right this time. I even got a big jar of Marmite, though it was the last one on the shelf.

We're doing a gradual process - buying two bags of pasta instead of one, but every week, rather than emptying the shelves and filling a big trolley. Sort of "Stealth panic buying".
 
We have a smallish stockpile I might just use if it is hard to get out to the shops or everyone insists on buying shit up, but honestly, we do now know that they're not going to shut down shops (the only reason I stockpiled was in case we might have to live on government food drops or something, which for all we knew at the time was a possibility) so I don't see why people should stockpile now unless they have absolutely no support network nearby if they're ill. Might stockpile at gradually at Costco in next few months for Brexit not so much because I think we'll run out of stuff, but that there's no doubt everything will get way more expensive, so buying things like my favourite muesli, which is much cheaper at Coscto, could save quite a lot!
 
So tinned chopped tomatoes for me and pasta and an extra packet of andrex.

I don't think at the moment a nationwide lockdown seems likely, I expect they will go with local ones as much as they can. Still could limit our access to the shops.
 
The thing is that online grocery delivery has improved since last time. I can now get Morrisons, Marks & Spencer and Aldi all through Deliveroo. Admittedly not the full range of goods but enough to get by. I've just run out of the loose leaf tea I stocked up on back in March/April time so I might get ahead with that. Maybe cat food too but for now I'll take my chances.
 
I didn't need to buy anything out of the ordinary last time there was a lockdown, and I see no reason why this should change. In fact the only reason I had any difficulty was because of the fucking idiots panic buying bog roll.

It's literally fucking pointless! Why do it?
 
NoXion said:
I didn't need to buy anything out of the ordinary last time there was a lockdown, and I see no reason why this should change. In fact the only reason I had any difficulty was because of the fucking idiots panic buying bog roll.

It's literally fucking pointless! Why do it?
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To be fair are some families do go through it it quite quickly.
 
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