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Update
on voluntary MOT tests
See our previous
NEWS item on MOT tests for pre-60s cars. More
Posted: 130221
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At
the NEC show last November several members raised
queries with the Federation of British Historic
Vegicle Clubs regarding the operation of voluntary
MOT tests. The latest FBJVC newsletter reports that
aAll testing stations were notified by Special Notice
from VOSA that as and from the date of exemption
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for
pre-1960 vehicles, these owners can apply for a
voluntary test. These can be booked in the normal
way and charged the normal fee (or lower if the
garage is giving special offers) and garages cannot
refuse to test them. Please notify the secretary
if any garages are refusing to conduct a voluntary
test.
Those
few vehicles that have always been exempt from MOT,
mainly specialised vehicles for which no manuals
exist and fall outside testing protocols, are not
eligible for voluntary testing. (These vehicles
are listed on the V112 form, the Declaration of
Exemption from MOT Testing.) However DfT have been
under pressure from the EU and are starting to consider
reducing the approximately 30 types of exempt vehicles
(most of which are now built on modern truck/bus
chassis) down to only those machines with specially
tailor made layouts i.e. extremely low volume production.
Any
voluntary test should be conducted as previously
practiced and the normal pass or failure notification
will be issued together with 'advisories' if appropriate.
It therefore follows that an electronic record will
be held on the VOSA database, which the enforcement
teams of VOSA and the Police may interrogate. It
is plainly not acceptable for owners to ignore a
failure and continue to use a vehicle without correcting
a known fault and use an excuse of: "Well,
I need not have had it tested anyway". Good
practice is to resubmit for a retest after the rectification
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