In a move designed to ensure that Britain is compliant with EU law, the Department for Transport announced this week that from February next year (2014), MOT Testers will have to check that if a vehicle was originally fitted with a diesel particulate filter they will have to ensure the filter hasn’t been removed – and if it has, then…
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MOT Fee frozen until 2015
Despite being in extended consultation with members of the MOT Trade Forum regarding a review of the MOT fee for 2014 – suddenly ‘out of the blue’, a surprise announcement from the Ministry of Justice quoted the new Roads Minister Robert Goodwill as saying, “…we are freezing the price for an MOT Test…” (We can only assume the news was…
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News reports about Caravans requiring MOTs are somewhat premature. True, the EU Parliament have reinstated the need to Test Caravans in their own itinerary after the Commission were forced to drop the idea after Member States objected, but there’s some way yet to go in the EU’s labyrinthian path to finalising such a law! And how would the tests be…
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