Horror story: New shoes
This is one for the motorcyclists out there – sent in by Daren Butler of Jim Aim Motorcycles, North Essex. Daren told us ”When testing this Kawasaki ER-5, the rear...
This is one for the motorcyclists out there – sent in by Daren Butler of Jim Aim Motorcycles, North Essex. Daren told us ”When testing this Kawasaki ER-5, the rear...
...trained and hard working MOT testers keeping us safe from these latest horrors. Here’s the latest selection. All shook up Alan, one of our ‘horror stories’ fans, sent us this...
In 2018, more than 636,000 duplicate MOT certificates were issued in Great Britain. That’s about 2% of all MOT tests done each year. Duplicates are issued when vehicle owners lose...
DVSA has completed the first Images in Garages trial – one of the building blocks that will help us tackle errors at MOT and fraudulent “Ghost” MOTs. In March, we...
...an MOT. Nick’s garage failed it on an amazing 26 points, including this one! That’s a lot of failures for one vehicle, and means there was no way it should...
...original brake pedal was damaged, the customer replied ‘No my foot keeps missing the pedal’. Epic fail without even having to test the car! Got any nuts? Someone’s been squirrelling...
...being done in this visit too. These checks will be done at fixed intervals, which will initially be every 3 years. We’ll look to make this more regular in the...
...take it on board but I’m sorry that we don’t get to reply to it all. MOT reminders So, one of the big things we’ve been working on since the...
...access, and once we’ve done that, we’ll make this garage information available to the general public and promote it more widely. Vehicle safety recalls data We’ve also added a link...
...which can either be onsite or offsite. We’ve done site reviews for many years. It helps us to keep test stations operating as they should and allows us to “risk...