MOT Exemptions Issued to help backlog

[Nicky]

Couldn’t be any worse than the English Midlands.

What’s wrong with their remote MOT methods…? Plenty of motors here avail of their futuristic approach, and have done for many years…

 

[gary1365]

I wouldn't trust any ****ing garages to do it without sticking the arm and leg in lol

Atleast MOT centres are impartial to a degree

Maybe over here the motor factors chuck testers a few quid.

Here mate I’ve just got a job lot of Clio springs in at a great price fail a load of them for us

 

[Nicky Glanza]

Maybe over here the motor factors chuck testers a few quid.

Here mate I’ve just got a job lot of Clio springs in at a great price fail a load of them for us

Tbf Gary you don’t need to bribe anyone for Renault springs to need replaced I used to just look at the Megane ones and they would drop out

 

[six_impressive_hours]

Don't see anything wrong with MOT every two years for vehicles up to ten years old, then annually afterwards.

 

[gary1365]

Tbf Gary you don’t need to bribe anyone for Renault springs to need replaced I used to just look at the Megane ones and they would drop out

Funny enough my Clio liked to eat springs and track rod ends for breakfast

 

[Rigger]

Give dealerships and garages with qualified mechs/techs the ability to act as MOT testers. Do that for a year or two and the backlog should clear.

Yes, there is a chance that less scrupulous examiners will try to make a quick buck for their own garage, but the system has been working for decades in England, Scotland and Wales.

The small amount of examination centres here obviously has its advantages being run by local government, but it's more than obvious it also has its disadvantages.

 

[Eager]

more testing capacity and a better booking system is what’s needed.

An example
I had a test on Monday, I ran into an issue on Saturday and couldn’t re-book it. As you need clear working to re-schedule. The last you can re-schedule a Monday test is Thursday. Mental. At a time when demand for slots is high potentially that would have been a wasted slot, I got the car to its test in end but plenty others would not have

In a fully electronic system there’s something wrong, someone would have taken that slot of the system put it back online on Saturday or Sunday

Paramilitaries would have local garage testing ruined it’s a complete non starter here

 

[Dan]

Paramilitaries would have local garage testing ruined it’s a complete non starter here

Probably be more organised though. Organised crime

 

[FM155]

Couldn’t be any worse than the English Midlands.

That's a low bar, spent nearly 20 years in various parts of the mainland, most of it in the Midlands.

However, I'm confident local outfits could go lower. I've a mate that has given up on older cars because he keeps on getting ripped off by garages. In the end, it comes to me to get fixed because with all that has been spent, the initial problem is inevitably still there, unresolved.

 

[Eager]

That's a low bar, spent nearly 20 years in various parts of the mainland, most of it in the Midlands.

However, I'm confident local outfits could go lower. I've a mate that has given up on older cars because he keeps on getting ripped off by garages. In the end, it comes to me to get fixed because with all that has been spent, the initial problem is inevitably still there, unresolved.

I left a car in to a local garage and had diagnosed and identified 3 issues that needed resolved. One was as simple as a bulb, can’t recall the others but I got the car back and they replaced a broken spring and fixed nothing else not even the bulb. He said leave it back another day to sort the rest, even though that is what it was booked in for
They must think people can give up the car all the time to leave it back in. Useless

 

[FM155]

The best one that I had with him was a ticking noise from a driveshaft. Was diagnosed by the specialist garage as an outer cv joint which didn't solve it so they replaced the wheel bearing. Still ticking away and he came to me to just get a second opinion and it took a few minutes to find the the drive flange bolts on the inner cv joint were a bit loose. Another 10 minutes to pull them out and clean the threads out and torque up the bolts with a dab of loctite. Over £300 for parts not required.

Imagine if they could hold the threat of an mot failure over people.

 

[southsky sunrise]

What way are these being issued anyone know?

 

[BobSpounge]

What way are these being issued anyone know?

You've to make an appointment online to go and collect your exemption at the DVA in Coleraine. Expect to be put in a virtual queue online, then when you get do get your appointment you make your way to Coleraine where you have to queue in person. The office is on the 3rd floor but you have to take the stairs because they found cracks in the lifts and they can't be used.

 

[FM155]

Bad craic altogether

 

[Gavlar]

Details of one-year temporary exemption certificates to reduce MOT waiting times

Around 115,000 private cars are expected to be eligible.

www.belfastlive.co.uk