Ialmost always put a new MOT on a car that I’m selling. Quite apart from making the car more desirable – and possibly a bit more valuable – it provides a certain amount of protection. Yes, I know that in law the test pass relates only to meeting minimum standards at the time of test, but having an expert check the vehicle for specific safety-related defects before you sell it must, surely, be the right thing to do.
Additionally, given that ‘advisories’ are now recorded on the online test record (which, remember, is also now the official proof of test status rather than the printed certificate), you can’t really argue that you didn’t know about them! If, for example, the last test was six months and 10,000 miles ago, and…