Car MOT Vs Personal MOT

[dkatwa]

I have been reading the various forums and notice that people will spend quite a bit of money maintaining their cars (maybe up to £4K looking at some of the Jaguar/ Bentley forums). Even normal cars would cost, maybe, £500 a year to maintain.

Question is, are people willing to spend £500 p.a. on a personal MOT (BUPA, PPP etc) to guage their physical health?

I know I don't, since I don't want to be told I am in bad shape...but what do other folks think?

[madala]

....I have at least one blood test every year mostly because I have an underlying medical condition that requires such but I am also a great believer in listening to ones' body and if it seems to be telling me something then I will usually follow that up with a visit to the doctor.

[BarnatosGhost]

dkatwa said:

I have been reading the various forums and notice that people will spend quite a bit of money maintaining their cars (maybe up to £4K looking at some of the Jaguar/ Bentley forums). Even normal cars would cost, maybe, £500 a year to maintain.

Question is, are people willing to spend £500 p.a. on a personal MOT (BUPA, PPP etc) to guage their physical health?

I know I don't, since I don't want to be told I am in bad shape...but what do other folks think?

People only get an MOT because they have to.

[luke66]

hell yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my cousin died last year age 0 years old, my auntie died recently of cancer age 53.

I think people that don't have PHI cover but have the flash cars etc are a bit lacking.

But there is the live for today attitude but for £50 per month it is worth it all day long.

as for the personal MOT then yes mine is with BUPA

Edited by luke66 on Saturday 18th December 09:56

[Lord Flathead]

Hmm I'm a bit out of warranty now and my ecu is playing up, I don't accelerate like I used to and I regularly fail the emmissions test after a curry night. If you think that's bad, my wifes' satnav doesn't know where she going, where she's come from and she has regular leaks once a month. As long as both of us keep going I don't see the need for Main Dealer servicing we just do our own maintenance. Of course if either of us need an engine rebuild it would be nice to have this option available but we are both big believers in prevantative maintanance and insurance when required

[Dr Jekyll]

The difference is that unlike mechanical issues most health issues clear up on their own.

A doctor I used to know reckoned BUPA style health checks are a waste of time. Apparently half the patients leave with the view that since they haven't got any heart disease or liver problems quite yet they can carry on with their unhealthy lifestyle for another year. The other half leave in a panic because of something that turns out not to be worth worrying about.

[Engineer1]

You shouldn't need regular check ups unless it is to monitor an existing condition, after all people are self healing and sentient meaning we know when we are ill and can decide to go to the doctors.

[mph1977]

as doctor jekyll and engineer1 say there is little to be gained unless there is a specific reason for checks and screening.

a lot of the 'health MoT' is attempting to generate income for private sector proivders by charging for unneeded tests and c over charging for simple tests that could be done in a few minutes nearly anywhere ( e.g. baseline observations,random blood glucose, Near patient urine test, ECG and a simple physical examination) and uses a few pounds worth of supplies ( a few tens of pence for the glucometer strip, a few pence for the urine dipstick and a few tens of pence for the sticky dots and paper for the ECG and a few tens of pence for wipes to clean the stethoscope and dinamap)