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New Licence Rules for Heavier Electric Vans Take Effect — What MOT Sector Needs to Know

From 10 June 2025, major changes to driving licence entitlements for zero-emission vans have come into force, designed to make it easier for businesses and drivers to adopt electric fleets. These changes have key implications for MOT garages, MOT testers, and suppliers in the EV van space. (Original source: EV Fleet World – New licenceContinue reading “New Licence Rules for Heavier Electric Vans Take Effect — What MOT Sector Needs to Know”

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The links below will take you directly to the page which has details of the MOT test of that item, with descriptions of ‘Minor’, ‘Major’ and ‘Dangerous’ criteria.

Add a Diesel Particulate Filter check to the MOT?

Diesel Particulate Filters and the MOT A Parliamentary lobbying group called The Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality (WCRAQ) set up by Barry Sheerman, the Labour MP for Huddersfield, claims that up to 10 percent of diesel cars could have faulty or damaged diesel particulate filters (DPFs). The organisation has further suggested that stricter MOTContinue reading “Add a Diesel Particulate Filter check to the MOT?”

MOT Testing & Workshop 102 – August 2019

MOT Testing & Workshop Magazine 102 August 2019

See PDF at the foot this page for full content – view online or download. In the August 2109 issue Cover story – ministers go back on their word. After leaving the MOT Fee unchanged for an unprecedented 10 years, the Secretary of State for Transport says that if the price is being discounted, itContinue reading “MOT Testing & Workshop 102 – August 2019”

MOT price cutting and fee discounting

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 – priceContinue reading “MOT price cutting and fee discounting”

MOT Workshop 44 – MOT Trade

The MOT Trade For the year to 15th March last year there were well over 21,600 Vehicle Testing Stations (VTSs), conducting, over just under 27 million ‘first presentation’ MOT inspections. That’s a lot of Testing Stations and a lot of Tests – so who does what? Are just a handful of VTSs doing most Tests?Continue reading “MOT Workshop 44 – MOT Trade”

MOT Workshop 44 – Appeal Tests

Appeal Tests… Many Testers and Authorised Examiners have, at some time or another, suffered the anxious experience of attending a VOSA ‘Appeal’ Test following a complaint from a motorist about the MOT outcome – pass or fail. There are too many uncertainties to ever contemplate an Appeal Test with an easy mind. There are, however,Continue reading “MOT Workshop 44 – Appeal Tests”

MOT Workshop 43 – ‘Service’ versus the ‘MOT’

A ‘service’ – not to be confused with an ‘MOT’ When is a ‘service’ not a ‘service’, and how much, if anything, inspected during a ‘service’ would be the same as an MOT? In a Transport Research Laboratory report assessing the road safety affects of reduced MOT frequency, the authors made the assumption that halfContinue reading “MOT Workshop 43 – ‘Service’ versus the ‘MOT’”

Diesel Particulate Filter Removal, and the MOT

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 stepsContinue reading “Diesel Particulate Filter Removal, and the MOT”

Brake Imbalance Debacle?

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 ofContinue reading “Brake Imbalance Debacle?”