cavanmick
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That's a bit more sensible of a system.
There was no test for passanger vehicles vehicle here in Ireland until about 10 years ago, all you could be done for was bald tyres, no lights or a dangerous fault causing an accident. It was brought in solely as an EU money making exercise, at the behest of an 'EU directive'. Its administered by a Spanish company and common fails include electric windows that don't work quickly enough! Also any welding work has to accompanied by an 'engineers report' which of course costs a bloody fortune.
I have seen cars fail for having a pin head sized crack in tail lights for example, there are no advisories!!
It costs E55 a pop, Its so arbitrary that its pointless bringing a car anywhere other than for a test to find out what nonsense its going to fail on, so you will always have to also pay the E27 (don't know how to do a euro sign!) retest fee.
But its even crazier than that, its not necessarily valid for even a year, its only valid for a year from the date of first registration, so an out of test car may only get a pass for a week and have to go back and be retested.
The penalty for not having one? E1500 fine and 5 penalty points, the penalty for doing 59mph past a school in a 30mph zone? 2 penalty points and E60 fine!! Go figure that one, if you don't think its a money racket.
Be grateful for the English MOT and the way its carried out.
A lot of this is a bit exaggerated lad, for one a lamp will not fail unless you can fit your finger into the hole, the drivers windows is the only one tested and as long as it opens enough to get your arm out to use a hand signal and closes again it will pass and if you are withing three months of your due date you get the film year and three months. The shortest cert period is the months and one day.
It's not an ideal system but not as bad as made out to be and most of the stuff is just common sense.
Mick