Garage Wire

Thanks Paul it seems I must have got information overload ! It's in the 202 comments section I was reading everything. I wonder if and that is a big if, DVSA will listen "NOT"?

I agree with you Paul regarding the freedom of information but I do think the government have still got things wrong to date. One of our neighbours one day while we were having a 5 minute brew at work came to us and said, that car is not taxed, that car has no mot test, those cars in your parking bays have neither tax or mots on them. The problem here as I see it, why should the world at large have the right to details about your vehicle(s) online!

We pay taxes for the police to do that. 

It is your responsibility to ensure that at all times your vehicle is on public roads that it is taxed, mot'd and insured. If you decide to have an mot test carried out, then the mot tester will follow the mot scheme rules and apply those standards, if a peculiarity is observed about your vehicle the tester needs to let you know about, that is the manual advisory. Genuine reasons for advisories I agree with all day long that don't devalue the vehicle unnecessarily just because a tester has been forced into a position of "You must cover your back" or else big brother VE will be on you.

To me a person should only be given the right to look up the mot history of another person's vehicle at the time it is offered for sale and a prospective purchaser requires to see the service/mot history, then the ID of the log book could be used to check the history the purchaser has a valid interest in. If that ID is not available when required, the prospective purchaser can and should just walk away, the world is not short of a car as far as the eyes can see in any given direction!     

Isn't there about 10,000 people every month that would like to hide the fact that their vehicle has no road tax?

Wally