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New mot rule

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New rule coming in for your mot
If you book your car in for its mot and it fails you now get a refusal to mot your car
And you can't drive it even if your old mot is still in date
You can only drive it to a testing station only if it's pre booked
If you get could get a £2500 fine and 4 points or even a ban


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When's that coming into force?
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That's just daft, I've being saying that somthing like that should come in but not for every car it'd be up to the tester, if you fail on lights or something drive away until you get it retested, if you fail on a rotten chassis or canvas showing on tyres well you shouldn't be on the road anyway and should be fined for doing somthing so dangerous

Up until recently in Ireland you could drive around in a complete heap and have a test appointment and the cops could do nothing as long as you showed a text or email confirming test date but you could cancel up to 2 weeks before and get no cancellation fee then just book another date [emoji38]
If it doesn't fit,
force it,
If it breaks,
It needed replacing anyway :thumbs:
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It's in now


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johnny wrote:That's just daft, I've being saying that somthing like that should come in but not for every car it'd be up to the tester, if you fail on lights or something drive away until you get it retested, if you fail on a rotten chassis or canvas showing on tyres well you shouldn't be on the road anyway and should be fined for doing somthing so dangerous

Up until recently in Ireland you could drive around in a complete heap and have a test appointment and the cops could do nothing as long as you showed a text or email confirming test date but you could cancel up to 2 weeks before and get no cancellation fee then just book another date [emoji38]

Now a fail is a fail you can't drive it end of tbh a lot of decent people will just fit a bulb and pass it
They are just clamping down as people are selling cars with like a month mot
Put it in for its test it fails
Under the old rules they would sell it on
With the months mot the buyer then puts it in and it fails the buyer then has the cost to sort it or gets ripped off



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So of a car fails, the tester would have to do any work?
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How do you get the car home? Lol

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johnny wrote:That's just daft, I've being saying that somthing like that should come in but not for every car it'd be up to the tester, if you fail on lights or something drive away until you get it retested, if you fail on a rotten chassis or canvas showing on tyres well you shouldn't be on the road anyway and should be fined for doing somthing so dangerous

Up until recently in Ireland you could drive around in a complete heap and have a test appointment and the cops could do nothing as long as you showed a text or email confirming test date but you could cancel up to 2 weeks before and get no cancellation fee then just book another date [emoji38]
Pretty sure they didnt even bring in the rule stopping you doing that in Ireland as there was such a backlog for the NCT

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Barraclough wrote:So of a car fails, the tester would have to do any work?
No you can drive it home for repair
But you can't drive it
You can only drive it to the testing station if pre booked as you could in the past


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stanc3w0rks wrote:How do you get the car home? Lol

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