MOT price cutting and fee discounting

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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 to be checked for MOT

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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