New mot tickets coming next month!

realscot · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:49

So I was going to post this last week but I didn't get a chance to.
Next month all mot pass/failures/advisories will be printed in black ink on plain white paper, no green tickets anymore!

http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/repository/MOT Certificate is Changing Poster.pdf

And this months Matters of Testing magazine.
http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/repository/MoT - Issue 51 - Sep 2011.pdf

Hyburnate · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:50

I guess this is a new money saving idea?

realscot · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:53

yep, cutting down on all these pre printed documents. They rolled out laser printers to all MOT stations earlier this year for the switchover. I'm a fan anyway, feeding in 1 page at a time into a dot matrix printer and waiting for it to print added some major time to your day. Shame we still have to put up with dial-up connection to VOSA for each test.

Dogbreath · 5 Sep 2011 at 18:58

Looks rather easy to forge.

ZG002 · 5 Sep 2011 at 19:01

I can see a check on www.direct.gov.uk/yourmotcheck

Being a must like a HPI check when buying a new car, As Dogbreath says they look quite easy to forge.

realscot · 5 Sep 2011 at 19:03

The only use a forged MOT would be is to sell the car, everything else you need an MOT ticket for is computerised. So all buyers should check online first, its free!

jon.bda · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:42

realscot said:
Shame we still have to put up with dial-up connection to VOSA for each test.

But its exciting watching those little red lights start to flash though...

Dogbreath · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:09

realscot said:
The only use a forged MOT would be is to sell the car, everything else you need an MOT ticket for is computerised. So all buyers should check online first, its free!

The point is people very often don't, and this just makes it a bit easier to get shot of a ropey car.

Glaucus · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:11

Makes perfect sense.

With a database, there's little need for half attempted security.

Dogbreath said:
The point is people very often don't, and this just makes it a bit easier to get shot of a ropey car.

It'll be provided in a car check for an extra bit of money I bet, after a few years people will realise that they need to check.

daveydave · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:23

Nice touch finally putting the advisories on the same page.

G J · 5 Sep 2011 at 22:09

daveydave said:
Nice touch finally putting the advisories on the same page.

This, tho it won't stop garages being lazy or fiddling paperwork. Or seller's conviently losing it then getting bitchy when you want to check it online.

Cupra · 5 Sep 2011 at 22:57

Dogbreath said:
Looks rather easy to forge.

but the police will pull you even with a forged one so a forge is worth nothing

ZG002 · 5 Sep 2011 at 23:28

Cupra said:
but the police will pull you even with a forged one so a forge is worth nothing

Think you missed his point, and other posts in this thread.

It's more to do with people selling cars with no mot and forged cert,

Yes I know there is a easy way to check but a lot of people barely do HPI checks never mind checking a cert they think is real.

LeeUK · 5 Sep 2011 at 23:29

Every used car dealer I have ever come across always seem to lose the advisory page.

Wonder what they will do now, maybe they'll cut the certificate in half.

jamoor · 6 Sep 2011 at 05:24

Now what they need to do is let you reprint it online.

realscot · 6 Sep 2011 at 07:33

LeeUK said:
Every used car dealer I have ever come across always seem to lose the advisory page.

Wonder what they will do now, maybe they'll cut the certificate in half.

yeah we do mot work for a few different sales places and one of the owners said to me "well you'll have to stop advising things now then" :rolleyes:

Basically you no longer need an MOT ticket, even the post office doesn't ask for it now (well last time I went they didn't) They are calling it an MOT recipt now. Shouldn't need to do duplicates anymore now either, and yes possibly they will let you print it off online since it's just blank paper and a bog standard laser printer.
Next year with new mot items I can see the failure rate up at least 50% with the most common one being dust covers, they are almost always split on 4-5 year old + cars.

Fuzz · 6 Sep 2011 at 08:13

dust covers?? MOT! What?

ubersonic · 6 Sep 2011 at 08:47

realscot said:
They rolled out laser printers to all MOT stations earlier this year for the switchover.

Lol, well that will offset any environmental/money saving ^^

LeeUK · 6 Sep 2011 at 22:18

What will happen to the MOT reminder sticker is on the current cert? Will they go back to the ones pre computerisation?

realscot · 7 Sep 2011 at 07:40

LeeUK said:
What will happen to the MOT reminder sticker is on the current cert? Will they go back to the ones pre computerisation?

Well i've not heard anything more about those. You could always just register to have a reminder text to your phone? (info on current MOT tickets) It only costs £1.50, either that or just write the date down on a calander, or set a reminder on your phone?