My car is an 05 plate and hasnt needed an MOT yet due to it still being under Ford warranty.

Just wondering, will I get notified when im due for an MOT? I have no idea when exactly my Ford warranty runs out, just know it will be sometime this year.

Thanks

It's the day before the date the vehicle was registered.
Have a look on your log book and you will see the date of registration.
You may get a reminder from the dealer that services the vehicle that it's due, you won't get any other form of reminder.

I thought you need an M.O.T on any car 3years after the date of registration regardless of any warranty on the car?

Once the car is 3 years old it must have an MOT to be road legal so you should get it done before its 3 years old. Warranty and MOT are totally unrelated things.

As they said - warranty has absorlutely nothing to do with MOT, luckily your warranty is only for 3 years cos if it was 5, and you waited 5 years to get an MOT, you'd be pretty buggered. However 05 plates are from march 2005 - end aug 2005 i think, so you won't be late for it (unless you bought on 1st march), just get it booked and done before its 3 year old.

You're forgetting that they wouldn't be able to Tax it without an MOT

I had my 05 reg MOT'd a couple of weeks ago and I still had a few weeks worth of Ford warranty afterwards. I originally thought that once it was MOT'd the warranty would be up, but it wasn't. So just get it done ASAP.

am i being a bit thick here? why are people thinking MOT and Warranty are related?

Its just a co incidence that the need for an MOT & warranty expiration happens on the same day, because the Ford warranty is 3 years and MOTs have to be done when the car is 3 years old. They are not related under any circumstance. An MOT is a legal requirement and a warranty is something between you and the manufacturer.

I think it's "KIA" who have the 5 year warranty period. This would still not affect the MOT time... Once the car is 3 years old it HAS to have an MOT if its under warranty or not.

Don't forget to ask them to date the MOT from when it's actually due, ie. 3 years from the date it's registered. You can get it done up to a month beforehand, so if you get it done slightly early then make sure they don't put that days date on it, otherwise you'll effectively lose some time; subsequent ones HAVE to be done within 12 months of the expiry date of the previous one.

get the mot done 1 month before your warenty runs out that way if it fails on anything major warenty may cover it