Annual MOTs could be axed

asredastheycome

asredastheycome

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FFS is this the best the great minds in Government can come up with. I might try to book a foriegn holiday with my annual £27.43 saving.

I would suggest this will put a lot of garages out of busines as they rely on a steady stram of MOT bookings per day/week/month.

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Annual MOT could be axed to help with cost of living crisis

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has the raised possibility of bi-annual tests, but will repair bills go up instead?
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Annual MOT could be axed to help with cost of living crisis
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has the raised possibility of bi-annual tests, but will repair bills go up instead?
Drivers would only need to take their car for an MOT every two years if a suggestion by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was taken up by the Government. At the moment, cars over three years old need a current MOT certificate which must be renewed every year.

The idea of changing that requirement to every two years comes as the Government seeks 'innovative ways' to help households with the cost of living crisis. Energy bills have soared and inflation is rising as families face a financial squeeze.

The Government pegs the annual cost of an MOT at a maximum of £54.85, although repair work to make it pass can make motorists pay a lot more. The BBC has reported that Mr Shapps wants to examine the possibility of extending renewal times to help drivers.

Having an MOT test every other year, would save motorists £27.43 a year. The AA motoring group has said changing the requirement could end up costing motorists more.
 
It isn't the £27 test cost that hurts wallets, it's the £350 bill you have to pay for various things on older cars. Are they really all critical things to repair given that you've been driving around like that for weeks/months anyway?
 
asredastheycome said:
FFS is this the best the great minds in Government can come up with. I might try to book a foriegn holiday with my annual £27.43 saving.

I would suggest this will put a lot of garages out of busines as they rely on a steady stram of MOT bookings per day/week/month.

www.mylondon.news

Annual MOT could be axed to help with cost of living crisis

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has the raised possibility of bi-annual tests, but will repair bills go up instead?
www.mylondon.news www.mylondon.news

Annual MOT could be axed to help with cost of living crisis
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has the raised possibility of bi-annual tests, but will repair bills go up instead?
Drivers would only need to take their car for an MOT every two years if a suggestion by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was taken up by the Government. At the moment, cars over three years old need a current MOT certificate which must be renewed every year.

The idea of changing that requirement to every two years comes as the Government seeks 'innovative ways' to help households with the cost of living crisis. Energy bills have soared and inflation is rising as families face a financial squeeze.

The Government pegs the annual cost of an MOT at a maximum of £54.85, although repair work to make it pass can make motorists pay a lot more. The BBC has reported that Mr Shapps wants to examine the possibility of extending renewal times to help drivers.

Having an MOT test every other year, would save motorists £27.43 a year. The AA motoring group has said changing the requirement could end up costing motorists more.
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Dreadful.
And the poorest in society often don't own cars either. Again, the ones benefiting will be well off people in their reliable cars.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
It isn't the £27 test cost that hurts wallets, it's the £350 bill you have to pay for various things on older cars. Are they really all critical things to repair given that you've been driving around like that for weeks/months anyway?
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Not sure that’s the hottest take on the matter.

You may have been driving around for weeks or months but your chances of crashing are higher etc
 
Astonishing tbh, the only time of the year your car gets checked over, many a time I hadn't realized I had a bald tyre on the inside, or my brake pads needed replacing and I class myself as a responsible motorist. An oil and filter change can improve fuel consumption and protect the engine... Will just increase the number of death traps driving on our roads. I'm hoping it's just headlines and won't happen.
 
maybe a more realistic move would be to move the MOT requirement from 3 years to 5 years and make it a requirement every 2 years after that?

I wonder how many people , who are not mechanically minded, rely on the annual MOT to highlight issues such as defective tyres or brakes? and otherwise would be driving around putting themselves and others at risk?

But lets save £27 a year when the price of food and energy has increased exponentially as have company profits.
 
An open invitation to drive death traps. Wouldn't expect any less from this bunch of Tory vermin.

They also want to allow more kids per adult at child care. Add this to the rivers and beaches now openly used as sewers, blocking efforts to reduce air pollution, reduce water treatment requirements and remove chemicals safety requirements. All these are costs to business so must be reduced/eliminated.
 
That's all we need more unsafe cars on the road to save a few quid. Dies it save anything anyway as a MOT often flags up a problem before it really costs you
 
Genuine question: How will this affect mechanics, many of which are small businesses? Does the MOT form a major part of their income?

I'm not saying that it's anyone's job to keep them in business, by the way, just curious.
 
This is just daft. I can think of plenty of ways the government can save us money other than doing a two year MOT wouldn't make the top 100.

Its just asking for trouble. People already drive around with low fluids / dodgy breaks and tyres. I genuinely believe most don't do it deliberately. They need an MOT for someone to say 'you need 2 new front tyres' etc.

The fact is that people go into an MOT and the car fails. These are issues they didn't know they had. So doing it every 2 years is asking for trouble. They could crash and heaven forbid kill someone with bald tyres because they had an MOT 18 months ago and they 'were fine'. You can't trust people to check or know what to look for.

The biggest mistake is that people often buy a car advertised with a years mot. That doesn't mean its safe for a year. I always check on the government MOT history checker and they often show a car with a brand new MOT may have 12 advisory's. So it's actually far from 'safe' on that years MOT.

People would be daft enough to drive around then for 2 years. It's just a crackers idea. I spend more in a month on fuel price rising than the cost of an MOT.

It's not the MOT that costs. It's the work you needs doing. They could maybe pay for that 😂
 
Is this the best the government can come up with, I find it staggering that they would even contemplate this when there is such a vacuum of meaningful policy to address the cost of living crisis.

How about taxing the energy companies who have passed on the increase in commodities directly to the customer, leaving their profits intact?

How about a meaningful taxation regime which ensures the super wealthy pay their share, rather than a tiny fraction of it.

How about a meaningful taxation regime to ensure globalised corporations pay their fair share of tax, rather than a tiny fraction of it?

It feels like they've given up on the poorest in society to retain votes from the middles classes, if that even exists anymore.
 
Weren't they also thinking of reducing the amount of adults needed to look after children in the hope that childcare costs could come down?
 
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