We recently received this letter from a reader of the magazine – unfortunately too late for publication in the February ’15 edition, but we will include it in the May edition as we consider it to be one of the most important issues connected with MOT Testing in the UK at the moment – price cutting and fee discounting, and…
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Diesel particulate filters – and the MOT [Please note that MOT Test regulations have changed since this article was first posted – see below for revised regulations] In late September, a Labour Peer in the House of Lords, Lord Berkeley, asked the Government what on the face of it was a simple question: “what steps they are taking to warn…
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As Testers know, Special Notice 3 0 2013 took effect on 26th June this year. It mandated a new way of measuring and recording brake imbalance by using either ‘lock-up’ or ‘slippage’ readings. There is, however, a problem. In practice the new method of inspection means that what’s measured is as much the level of traction between the tyre and…
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Last summer the EU Commission, just a year after their last load of MOT revisions issued a proposed new ‘Regulation’ about MOT Testing. Within their proposals were some good ideas – getting cars off the roads with dangerous defects, for example. However an idea rumoured to stem from Germany, that a car should fail the MOT if it wasn’t exactly…
Read MoreOver last Saturday’s leisurely breakfast, I was reading the motoring section of the Weekend Telegraph and was intrigued by a column’s headline ‘STEERING YOU THROUGH THE TRIALS OF THE MOT’. As others before him, the writer likened the annual MOT to visiting the dentist, but did offer sound advice as to what motorists could do to help get their car…
Read MoreAs we reported when the formal consultation for exempting classic vehicles from MOT Testing was published, the Government claims there’s ‘no profit element’ in the MOT Test. That statement was challenged by the MOT Trade Forum in their formal response to the DfT’s consultation document on classic car MOT exemption. The Government remains of the view that the cost of…
Read MoreTheoretically vehicle servicing should ensure the vehicle is maintained in accordance with the manufacturers’ recommendations. But it’s not that simple, the definition of a ‘service’ varies from one manufacturer to another, and when vehicles fall out of warranty and become serviced in the independent sector, what comprises ‘a service’ becomes very uncertain indeed. It’s then largely dependent on what individual…
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Jim Punter Editor MOT Testing Magazine, Past Chairman, MOT Forum Subject(s): The MOT Industry
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John Ball Managing Director, Motest Group. Subject(s): Service and Repair.
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