Over the last few months we’ve been surveying garages about switching
over to the new MOT testing service, and now over 75% of garages have
told us they’re ready. We’re going to be contacting sites and testers
ahead of their switchover to the new service in September 2015.
Advisory notices are a non-mandatory part of the MOT and it’s up to the
tester to decide whether to advise on an item or not. Some Authorised
Examiners may also have their own policy in place for advisories.
Since we limited the options for ‘item not tested’ on MOT comp in August
2014, testers have been asking us what to do when they can’t test other
items. This includes a binding brake preventing a proper examination of
the wheel bearing. Read more
In November 2014, over 2,500 of you took part in an exercise to test the
new navigation of MOT services and information on GOV.UK. So thank you
to everyone that helped with this exercise.
When the owner of this vehicle dropped it off with Martin, at Discount
Tyres in Sittingbourne for its MOT, they mentioned a noise which had
been coming from the front of the vehicle when braking.
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