DVSA makes big change to MOT requirements

[IanW]

My wife just showed me this news article - DVSA makes big change to MOT requirements.

P.S. I may have posted this in the wrong forum...

[ScottR400D]

Wrong forum? I think it's been posted on the wrong date, that's all.  

It's a Tapley meter by the way, not a Tap meter and unless a site does a very, very low number of MOTs the cost per car will be negligible and unlikely to be passed on given the number of Testing stations that discount the MOT price to be competitive. 
 

 

[SLR No.77]

Usual shock reporting by certain press outlets, and for a paid reporter/journalist appalling English in places! I'm pretty sure a garage will spend a lot more than £130 having its lifting equipment and pressure vessels certified.

[Jonathan Kay]

The current consultation: "Proposed changes to make MOTs fit for the future".

Jonathan

[Golf Juliet Tango]

the move could save motorists across Great Britain around £100 million a year in MOT fees.

Thus removing that money from the garage trade, so it isn't one way traffic as the .gov site suggests.

While initial testing after four years may be acceptable because production quality is higher than in 1960, I wouldn't support longer intervals between tests, partly because annual testing is so easy for owners to schedule and for mileage checks.

[Toby S]

May mean those garages offering choice of a deccelerometer in the footwell or the resistance rollers get rid of the former which my local garage uses only on a few cars with low ground clearance (including my Caterham)

Don't fancy my handbrake (under the dash sort) being tested on resistance rollers - bleeding useless at the best of times and very rarely used

[ScottR400D]

#6 why would anyone get rid of a Tapley just because it costs them an extra £50/60 a year to have it calibrated.......and risk losing customers with LSDs?

 

 

[7 wonders of the world]

there's no issue with LSD's on the brake rollers anyway......... unless you are running a ridiculously high preload on a light car and then it will only get gently pushed up the roller.

[ScottR400D]

You may well be right but the place I go specifically asked if I had an LSD and use a Tapley for that reason. 

 

 

[7 wonders of the world]

the independent rear brake check is the only one of interest and this merely rotates a single wheel at a relatively slow speed (circa 50 rpm) with the car in neutral so even the little overrun torque applied has zero effect, the only resistance form the LSD is the preload, 

 

 

[BenF]

Really the title of this thread should be:

DVSA makes tiny change to MoT requirements.  How anyone could think this is a big change is beyond me 

[Jonathan Kay]

On 16/02/2023 at 12:22, Jonathan Kay said:

The current consultation: "Proposed changes to make MOTs fit for the future".

And the outcome.

"First MOT test to remain at 3 years from registration and annually thereafter while government works to establish a programme of longer-term reform for MOTs."

Jonathan