Looking to the future of the MOT

Value for money

This isn’t a case of trying to increase profit margins for the sake of it. During the MOT Consultation the DfT stated that the £54.80 cost of the MOT equates to 1% of the running cost of the average car per year. Even if the price increased to keep up with the price of Freddos it would put it at £137 - still only 2.5% of the average cost of running a car. And that’s with other changes to the MOT possible.
The MOT Consultation ended with the frequency remaining the same, but there’s still discussion of trailing new particulate matter testing to further improve air quality. That’s a good but will be another cost increase for the required equipment for the test lane further, decreasing the profit margins of running a lane.
At the moment the business case for investing in an MOT lane really doesn’t make sense. If you were to take it to the Dragons’ Den, they’d laugh you out the door. It’s why some kind of change really needs to happen before we find ourselves in a really poor position where there are not enough MOT test stations to manage the car parc.

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