Here's a helpful checklist how to make sure your car is ready for winter from Ravenscroft MOT & Service Centre

Do you know about the changes that are being introduced from 1 October?

Any business that doesn't have a vinyl wrap on their car, even if it’s their boss's private car, is missing out in my opinion. If you’re serious about your business then why miss a chance to have a “mobile billboard” driving the streets of Aldershot and Farnborough every day, prominently shouting your business to the rooftops?!

The first time you have a puncture in your car and have to buy a new tyre you very quickly learn the secret language of tyres, as well as the importance of keeping a decent car jack, toolkit, spare wheel and wheel-locking nut where you can find them (take it from me, changing a wheel at rush-hour on the M25 on the way to catch a plane is no fun but it’s a lot easier if you’ve got all the gear).

A1 Rushmoor Taxis have been taxi-ing the people of Aldershot and Farnborough around the area for 25 years, and now have a fleet of over 70 taxis covering Tongham, Ash, Cove, Mychett, Ash Vale, Farnham, Fleet, Sandhurst and Frimley.

First introduced under the direction of the Ministry of Transport 1960, the MOT (not to be confused with the MOTMOT, which is actually a tree-dwelling bird from South America) has changed little over the years, but the central point still remains.

We understand tyres need changing whilst we are out and not many of us know what to do about it, well let us give you some pointers.....