Your Car's First MOT Test Won't Be Delayed By A Year After All

The British MOT test, which is a formal safety test for cars that reach three years old, won't be delayed by a year after safety concerns were raised

Matt Kimberley

18 Jan 2018

Your Car's First MOT Test Won't Be Delayed By A Year After All

The British public and motoring organisations have shit down an attempt to delay all cars’ first MOT test to the four-year mark.

The government had suggested it and opened a public consultation, saying that it could have saved the collective motorist £100 million per year, but everyone else decided that seeing as so many cars fail what is effectively their first official safety test anyway, leaving it an extra year is asking for trouble.

Current figures suggest 2.4 million cars take their first Ministry of Transport test every year, with around 37 per cent of cars failing at the first attempt between 2015 and 2016. French cars dominate the list of cars most likely to fail first-time, with the Renault Kangoo, Citroen Berlingo Multispace and Citroen C4 the worst-performing three cars in a possibly slightly outdated Telegraph report.

The most common reasons for failures are tyre tread depth, brake pad thickness and light-related faults. We’re fairly sure that, left for another 12 months, a lot of people still wouldn’t have fixed these simple safety issues – not until they were forced to by an actual failure, anyway, which could easily involve a big crash.

We think this is the right move, but what about you guys?

Sources: Autocar, What Car?, UK Government

Comments

“The British public and motoring organisations have ‘shit down’ an attempt to delay all cars”….interesting… Might want to run a spell check there…🤔😂

MOT spell check!

Shit down?

Be humblr

The correct wording would have been “shit on”

Would’ve been ‘shut down’

shit down haha

4 years in Northern Ireland and we’re fine. All about the money it generates really.

Right I mean screw safety

Wait really? Always thought we were 3 as well

They really have shit things down haven’t they

I think this is because people are just generally incapable of maintaining a car. Seriously - how can people not realise that there’s something wrong if their brakes don’t stop, their tyres have no grip or their lights don’t work properly?

I’m strangely kind of happy most comments are about a grammar mistake

The cause is spreading comrade

All that because many people think you only need to maintain your car because government tells you to.

With the state of a lot of new cars i see here i think it should be shortened.
All my cars have been of the age where they get tested every year it costs like £54 quid which isnt to bad i have only ever failed one MOT and that was caused by pot hole damage.