MOT Certificate

[David Oxfordshire]

By the way im paying £280 for a year...is that normal? Seems alot.

[CosKev]

23 minutes ago, David Oxfordshire said:

By the way im paying £280 for a year...is that normal? Seems alot.

 

All kit cars are PLG,if the engine is bigger than 1549cc you pay the higher band.

Under 1549cc cars pay a lower price .

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Yep, that’s right, look for the PLG tax rates if you want to check.

 

under 1549cc £170, over £280

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

10 hours ago, Kingster said:

I think that once you MOT it, then you must do so every year thereafter because you are in the system. 

@Paul Aspden (MoFast) this may mean you will require one next year too, despite the car only being 2 yrs old!

[Paul Aspden (MoFast)]

@Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO yeah I pushed the boulder off the cliff… anyways it means some else checks my nuts each year. 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

2 hours ago, Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO said:

@Paul Aspden (MoFast) this may mean you will require one next year too, despite the car only being 2 yrs old!

 

Yeah, I fell into that trap with my last Westfield; got the MoT due notice at 12 months after SVA, (as it was then,) with it being on a Q and me not realising, I just assumed that's what you did with Q plate cars.

 

I found out after mentioning to someone that I'd just done my MoT, that I didn't need to have one, and someone on here, I think possibly @pete g clarified with the DVLA that you didn't. So year two, I get in touch when the renewal notice comes through, to be told that no, I hadn't needed one, but that I was now on the system as showing MoT expired. So anyone doing a vehicle check would only see that. So basically I was then "stuck" with MoT'ing from then on in...

 

Except, I've been really lucky to have been able to use two exceptionally good garages over all my kit MoT's, that both understand Kits, Q plates and how they affect the test, but also to really understand kit's too. - they understand, that normally they are the only trained person to examine the car, once a year. So both garages have actually gone out of their way to examine important things for the safety and drivability of the car, regardless of whether they're normally testable items. - It's funny, the first words of the garage owner, from the place in Congleton, once he'd guided me on to the lift, were usually "Have you had the nose off?", (always was a yes, of course), the next words were usually, "well I hope you've brought your spanners to adjust the bl**** headlights, I'm not doing them for you!".

 

But it's always been reassuring that the car has been properly checked over, top and bottom, on a proper lift, where you've got good access and can see everything.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Mine (a 1994 SEiW) suddenly disappeared a few MoT tests ago. The tester put my chassis number in as he had for some years, and the system spat it out as non-existent. A half hour 'phone conversation with DVLA showed that the VIN system had been extended to Q plate kit cars of a certain age but that they had omitted to tell anyone. A 'new' VIN was issued on the 'phone and then the computer accepted the pass. Once or twice the tester, who likes chat about cars and is a TR Register member but wasn't on duty that day has stood about while we drink tea mid-test. The chap who did the test one day took too little time and the system accused him of not doing all of the tests. A Q plate needs no emissions, and the general shortfall in testable features mean that the whole procedure takes so little time that DVLA's computer won't believe it is done in less than a particular time. Hence the standing around drinking tea part.  Mine has been SORNed for a year or four so the next MoT could have more fun bits waiting.

[Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO]

On 11/03/2022 at 12:36, Man On The Clapham Omnibus said:

 A Q plate needs no emissions, and the general shortfall in testable features mean that the whole procedure takes so little time that DVLA's computer won't believe it is done in less than a particular time. Hence the standing around drinking tea part.

FYI The AI used to monitor the MOT test statistics will 'flag' any test times significant below and indeed above the national average. The 'flag' is to indicate differences, it does not mean a tester is doing anything wrong, just different.

 

So as you have stated your Westfield could be completed in a significantly shorter time and that is the 'difference', so there is no need for a tester to wait, drinking tea etc. as it a fully justifiable.

 

In fact doing other things when they should be inspecting a vehicle is a more serious issue than an appropriate short test time on a vehicle that can be adequately inspected within that time!

 

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Well he did tweak my headlight alignment despite knowing that I never drive it in the dark and hardly ever on the road at all. He's an amateur racing driver himself (Triumph Spitfire) and a long standing member of the TR Register. The tea was incidental to discussing matters of safety and other automotive related matters. We plead not guilty m'lud! 

[evosteve]

You could get day light only MOT's, anybody know if there are still available?

[Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO]

8 hours ago, evosteve said:

You could get day light only MOT's, anybody know if there are still available?

No such thing, never has been!

However, a vehicle does not need lights to pass an MOT, that is a regular MOT. How it's used on the road is nothing to do with an MOT.