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Mike Ruff, GW editorKeymaster
Nearly one in seven vehicles that passed their MOT last year should have failed as garages failed to uphold government testing standards, according to
[See the full post at: Testing stations passing one in seven vehicles that should fail MOT, investigation finds]Neil SkuseGuestWe are all human however in thirty plus years having a mot station I am amazed how many times we have seen customers vehicles and investigated issues to find they have just passed a mot test with clearly issues that would fail. I agree many vehicles are passing which clearly should not.
GazaGuestI’ve had this before, 2 of them took a car I had just motd and then spent nearly 2 hours inspecting on another ramp. 2 people and 2 hours when I have hourly slots and just one of me. Luckily they didn’t find anything but they sure as hell tried their best!
Eddie BamberGuestAs Neil said, we’re all human and sometimes we make mistakes. We m.o.t a vehicle but the DVSA examiners forensically inspect it for hours. They should be looking at the people who offer old bangers for sale with the promise “it will come with 12 months m.o.t”.
Peter MilesGuestI’m sure we’ve all seen cars which we have failed passing a day or two later at a “well known” local testing station without so much as an advisory. Which in turn means there is a possibly dangerous vehicle on the road and we lose a customer because it makes us look too strict, when we’re just trying to do our best!
DougalGuest‘Chris Price, DVSA’s Head of MOT Policy, said: “We carry out the MOT Compliance Survey to maintain MOT standards.”‘
Clearly the DVSA Vehicle Examiners who carry out these checks gain a lot of experience of likely faults on a huge range of models.
Why don’t they share this information with all testers?
Isn’t the ability to do so part of the information revolution we are living through? -
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