Five things to check on the drive before your MOT
Bulbs, wipers, tyres, the washer bottle and the horn: the small things behind most fails.
Advice
Plain answers from the workshop: MOT preparation, tyres, batteries and the noises cars make.
How much tread is enough?
The legal limit is 1.6 mm, but stopping distances in the wet grow well before that.
Why car batteries give up on the first cold morning
A battery that just about copes in autumn can fail on the first frost. A two-minute test tells you.