With all this incessant talk about MOTs recently, with experts (and editors) falling over themselves to have their say, we thought it would be a good idea to present some of the opinions that have come to us from you, our readers.
“I’ve been in a cab before and heard a wheel bearing noise and I said, your wheel bearing’s noisy. They said, I MOT’d it three months ago, so I don’t need to repair it. And that’s a cab driver, they’re driving every day.”
“It’s true that modern cars are probably better engineered, but they also have too much technology that goes wrong.”
“I will enter my thoughts into the Government consultation on the MOT frequency because it’s important. Everyone has a voice. Unfortunately, it’s about as useful as shouting into the wind. I’ll put my thoughts down and it will go into a file somewhere and an MP will read it and then it’ll go into the bin and the outcome will be whatever they decide it’s going to be, and then we’ll all pick up the pieces later on.”
“Classic cars don’t need an MOT anymore. But I work with a few reputable classic car dealers and they still bring them in here for the annual test to provide assurance that the cars are roadworthy if anything ever happened.”
“Personally I think the MOT should be on time or mileage. So, if you do a certain amount of mileage since your last test, you should need to bring the car in again. Take a guy doing 60,000 miles a year as opposed to someone doing 5,000 miles a year. It’s a massive difference.”
“At the end of the day it’s bad for us simply because we rely on the income of people getting their cars not just fixed, but MOT’d as well.”
“It’s a dangerous thing to leave it two years between cars being like looked at. They’re obviously out of manufacturer’s warranty. There’ll be a lot of problems on the roads – a lot of crashes caused by people waiting until their cars just stop before they do anything.”
“I think the government probably will have to listen to the outcome of the MOT consultation, because most organisations are objecting to the changes, including most MOT stations. I mean, it’ll be far too dangerous for cars to be on the road unchecked for a period of two years.”
“It would be very dangerous to change the MOT frequency because customers only know when there’s something wrong with their car when it’s too late. It’s not fit for purpose for the road when they bring it in for a test. Some customers don’t even know how to change tyres, that’s what we’re dealing with here.”
