MOT Computer shuts down for update

13th October 2015

We have received the following bulletin from DVSA:

Service unavailable on Thursday evening…

The MOT testing service will be unavailable from 8pm to 1am on Thursday 15 October 2015 as a service update is taking place.

We’ll be emailing users with a contingency code ahead of this outage on Thursday afternoon should they need to carry out testing during this period.

Ahead of this please make any MOT trade members you come across aware of this outage and let them know that we’ll be emailing the necessary contingency testing code to their registered email address should they need to carry out testing during this period.

We’re just about to update the MOT trade about this outage as part of mailout to MOT testing service users and through messages to other trade communications channels this afternoon.

This message will also include something about slot payments being unavailable tomorrow evening as outlined below.

Slot payments unavailable on Wednesday evening…

Users also won’t be able to buy slots from 6pm to 7pm on Wednesday 14 October 2015 as a payment service update is taking place.

Ahead of this please make any MOT trade members you come across aware of this outage and let them know that they won’t be able to buy slots during this period.