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By Shelly 05 Aug, 2020
From 1st April 2020 until July 31st 2020, the DVSA extended any due MOTs by 6 months.   An MOT due to expire in April would be extended to expire in October. The industry is anticipating a doubling of people requiring an MOT from October, this is potentially going to cause issues for customers booking MOTs. The government, DVSA and industry are asking is that those with extensions begin to get their MOTs carried out before their expiry date, to minimise the impact and ensure MOT availability for everyone.   Original MOT Expiry = April + 6 Months WILL be Due OCTOBER  Original MOT Expiry = May + 6 Months Will be Due NOVEMBER Original MOT Expiry = June + 6 Months Will be Due DECEMBER   Original MOT Expiry July + 6 Months Will be Due JANUARY 2021   To check your MOT expiry date use https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/
By Shelly Leonard 27 Feb, 2020
Welcome to my latest mad idea a “blog” all very trendy or at least it was last year. I have thought about this for a while and decided that I obviously am not busy enough running the office here at Nightingale Service Centre, so I would try and inform, entertain and share my experiences as a car owner, garage owner and the better half of a car enthusiast and petrol head.   As I am no technical expert I will find out any techie answers from the experts who work very hard downstairs running the workshop, fixing and caring for your vehicles. If you have any questions regarding cars, that you feel I could ask the workshop for you I am happy to go and find out, I might even surprise myself and know the answer. Please email your queries to shelly@nightingalesc.co.uk.   Single Use Plastics was a huge talking point last year and rightly so! Quite simply, single use plastics are contributing to the mounting waste that is clogging our oceans. Here at Nightingale Services Centre Ltd, we deal with our waste appropriately and in future blogs I am planning to cover where all our motoring waste goes. We aren’t perfect but let's take a look at what we are doing here in our workshops.   This week we saw the arrival of our “reusable” seat covers, a simple idea however we have to remember to remove the covers prior to the vehicle collection. Then there is the laundry, so it has been decided that I shall be the keeper of the laundry bin. Now this is fine as I have recently connected with a “Plastic Free” shop in my local town where I will be purchasing laundry products from them in a bid to limit the impact of plastic waste to our environment.   In the future as we get used to the new system should you find a seat cover in your car please can you return it to us at Nightingale Service Centre. 
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