MOT
Earlier this year the MOT rules for millions of British vehicles was changed to suit the wishes of the EU. Under the EU’s procedures the Great British public could have faced more EU fines for not doing what the EU directed us to do.
To incorporate the new EU rules for the test without making the EUTest any longer or increase its cost, VOSA has had to remove some of the existing British test items from the new EUTest. As usual with EU Laws and Directives the new EUTest items are relatively pointless, for example, engine management lights are now part of the MOT / EU Test. Your car could now fail an MOT / EUTest if a engine management light is on, yet your car could pass the accurate emissions part of the test proving your car is running OK and not over polluting. This is know as a ghost, when a computer light comes on but there is no actual fault,
Now the EU want to introduce some more draconian new rules into vehicle testing for example most if not all Britain’s MOT Stations both test and repair vehicles, the EU want to change this so that a garage cannot repair vehicles if they do MOT / EUTests.
This is about as far from sanity as you can get as garages are not licenced in any form meaning anyone can open a garage and start repairing vehicles, so the proposed EU rule is suggesting that the 26,600 British MOT/EUTest garages that are licenced buy the Government agency VOSA cannot repair vehicles but any rouge trader garage still can and a MOT/EUTester that has passed the three day inspectors course and exam will no longer be able to complete even simple repairs like changing a side lamp bulb
Only the EU would consider this suggestion sensible and the underling threat is that the whole British MOT industry could be taken over by larger European companies that are keen to gain a foothold in Britain’s MOT / EUTest business. VOSA has already handed over the complete computerisation of the MOT / EUTest to Siemens.
Arguably the stricter rules could remove older cars for our roads. but this will only lead to more motorists going into greater debt to buy newer cars, thus expanding the debt burden a lot of British motorist’s families already face.
BY GORDON FANTHOM
