MOT shame.

[Soenvious]

Just had my MOT completed by a local independent garage who are very friendly and appreciate the nuances of the 4200 CC.
I always remind him of the LSD re: the brake test and he always confirms 'he remembers'.
The great news, for me, is that my car passed without any advisories but I must confess the deep degree of shame and guilt at being reminded I had completed less than 600 miles between MOT's. OMG.
What had I been doing last year that was more important than driving a Maserati?
Note to self: Get your act together and make time to address this problem, driving is a pleasure that is multiplied by the fact it's a dream car, for me at least. I'm definitely going to remedy this situation this year and make it thousands, not, hundreds of miles between tests, I swear.
And could I ask for absolution from the Petrolhead section of members who are regular users. I will use it, pinky promise...

 

[safrane]

If it makes you feel any better my GS has been driven 901 miles since 2020 and the last 12 months were 75 miles. Oh and the MOT station is 20 miles from where the car is stored. I also think the road test when it was at Sports Italia would have taken c5 miles too... so 30 miles by me.

Does that make you feel any better?

 

[Felonious Crud]

 

[ScottH]

Double checked mot history and my mom’s mini did 53 one year and that wasn’t a particularly close mot garage either. I suspect it did more going in and out of the garage to make way for the lawnmower than actual road travel!

 

[Felonious Crud]

Cars prefer to be used, in my humble. Not necessarily loads, but enough to keep things running well. Use it or lose it!

 

[Scaf]

I now have 4 flipping cars plus my wife’s, but do make a point of using them all for the purpose for which I bought them.

My Jag gets about 15,000 miles 95% work related
The Strad is c5,000 miles pa 80% pleasure 10% pleasurable work
The Tiger 2000 miles pa mostly local shows the odd weekend away
The Panda will do less than 1000 miles popping to local shops and out for coffee

Even so I feel guilty no making enough use of them all.

Life is short - live it while you can !

 

[Ewan]

I’ve owned my Aston for almost exactly a year. Driven it once, 30 miles in total.
The Urraco is now on 16,000 miles, and will be 50 years old in a few months!
At the other end of the scale, we did about 12,000 in the Audi E-Tron.

 

[Burf22]

Last week's MOT confirms 1,440 miles for my QPV over the past 12 months. I reckon that's c. £2.18 per mile (assuming no depreciation!!). Not a bad year. Upping the mileage would help the cost per mile, if not the resale value.

 

[MarkMas]

That is pretty bad.

Here is my current QPV:



And the previous QPV:



A pretty steady 7,000-10,000 per year.

 

[Brendan]

That is pretty bad.

Here is my current QPV:

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And the previous QPV:

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A pretty steady 7,000-10,000 per year.

Give that man a medal.

 

[hashluck]

MOT on one of mine last week revealed 19 miles travelled. The MOT station is 9 miles away. Even for me that is terrible.

 

[gb-gta]

Sounds like someone should start a new forum. Maybe call it ‘Parked Maserati’

 

[Nibby]

I got my car mot’d in mid September and haven’t used it since and sorned it at the end of September. Mistake on my part as it seems the weather is better in October than March/April these days.

 

[Felonious Crud]

MOT on one of mine last week revealed 19 miles travelled. The MOT station is 9 miles away. Even for me that is terrible.

Yeah, that's pretty terrible, John. Will you write your own remediation plan, or should the forum's new AI chatbot do it for you?

 

[RoaryRati]

If it makes you feel any better my GS has been driven 901 miles since 2020 and the last 12 months were 75 miles. Oh and the MOT station is 20 miles from where the car is stored. I also think the road test when it was at Sports Italia would have taken c5 miles too... so 30 miles by me.

Does that make you feel any better?

I'll put some miles on her if you like - but it's a coupe, so maybe I won't

 

[redsonnylee]

2508 miles in 5 years, and that’s with driving to Goodwood, Brands Hatch and Brooklands once a year from Surrey.
I drive the GS less now due to speed humps & the 20mph speed limit here, which is so frustrating.

 

[HTAFC4200]

I'm guilty too, but I have done some long motorway runs at least, it just eats the miles and the v power.

Everytime I drive it, it's an event, especially since I had the factory resonator / x pipe removed.

At least I definitely qualify as a petrolhead now with 2 V8's lol

As much as I need to sell her, I don't want to.

 

[2b1ask1]

Mine has only been out a couple of times since Rob’s funeral, I hope the battery is still good!

 

[midlifecrisis]

As Crud says, these cars are meant to be used to keep them in fine fettle. They have been designed and built by Italian engineers to the finest tolerances and the upmost in luxury, to be driven vast distances and to be enjoyed.
But some of you are wasting their time and effort by not driving them. You're just an owner of a lump of expensive metal and you wonder why your batteries won't start up...

The shame...

 

[BillyBob]

I've had my Gran Cabrio for 4.5 years - it was on 22,500 when I bought it, it's now on 56,000. I've got another roadtrip coming up in 6 weeks (circumnavigation of the Iberian peninsula, 6 weeks duration) which will add another 4, possibly 5K and will definitely take it over 60,000. I really don't understand people who have cars that they don't drive.