MOT changes from May 2018: guidance for MOT testers

Good point , they don't want to talk to us cos we know better than they do. I reckon the people who set it up have a degree and not much common sense and the closest they get to getting there hands dirty is when they put fuel in their tank.

vosa is know run bye keyboard warriors with no practical experiance on how to test a car our run a mot station there just putting there time waiting for there package/ retirement we all see this comeing there going to privitise it i am friendly with a ex vosa insepecter who still meets up with ex collages 1 a month and he has told me this is on the cards is just a matter off time before this happens

A couple of recent test queries that I need to look into:

Tested a class 4 with single line brakes and knocked it back on both overall parking brake efficiency and emergency brake imbalance (or whatever they call it now). So on the final summary (before printing) and on the VT 30 it clearly showed the defects as being on “Axle 1”. And I was unable to change this (default) statement.
I checked it three times and called another NT to check too. And we agreed I hadn’t made an error.


And, I’ve not had time to check this, but I failed one today on excess corrosion, suspension prescribed area, and I swear they have ‘watered-down’ the wording. It reads like you now have wriggle-room as to whether you fail it or not. Or has it always read this way? Must double check as I was in shed sorry, shell shock after this one!


I am certain this test is changing daily!

Exactly aylesburyjock I refuse to try and make the test fit the defect they are the fcukwits who gave us this sh1te I will not make excuses for them.

I can't get my head round the above David, what am I missing?

• Your talking about direction indicators must be amber!
• You say if they are not amber it's not operating?
• So there is a problem regarding colour, but you then advise testers to use;

I can't follow your line of reasoning!

Indicators that are the incorrect colour don't fail now.

Info states indicator must be amber. If any other coloured lamp illuminates with it, red, white it's a fail

Sounds like a square peg & round hole situation to me. If interaction was included there would be a mention of it somewhere.

inop 09 on you mean and not just hid?been like that from the start of this sh1te or is there summat else ive missed?and yeah it means that all the old gooners we were failing up till may are now a pass.....

think I see what you mean,non hid is now minor?iwasnt it major before?christ but I wish theyd give us a heads up,this keeps happening.