CDX is due MOT in just over month, but has a crack along the bottom of the windscreen. This is just above the dashboard line where it meets the screen , approx 50mm, so well below the drivers sight line . The crack is about 40cm long and has been like this for over 6 months now with increasing .
I was fully expecting to get the screen replaced on insurance , once the car had passed all other aspects of the MOT. BUT . . .
While out socialising yesterday I got chatting to an MOT tester , who said that the guidelines have now "got sensible" about windscreen damage for the new test .
He went on to say that any cracks or damage that are now NOT in the drivers sight line will not be a fail
Anyone got any thoughts or comments on this ? I understand that it is much better to have an uncracked screen , but on a 17 year old car is it worth replaceing it if it will still pass the MOT test ?