I didn't know anything about this new MOT system -- having to produce a registration certificate before the car could be MOT'd
question is what the hell do you do if you can't find the new reg cert and you need an mot?
Surely you don't have to wait for a new cert to be issued (and paid for) before the MOT can be issued?
I have hunted all over the VOSA website and a load of other sites - can't find any information on this.
Any one here know the answer?
regards
Dudley
the same thing you do when you cant find your mot or insurance documents to tax your car, you apply for new one.
its a bit of a blow when you turn up at the mot station with the wifes car and thats the first time that you hear anything about needing a registration document to be able to get the car mot'd.
When I got home I read the booklet that comes with the new registration document - one for my own car and there is not a word in it about MOTs.
I guess Ill have to get on the phone to the helpline in the morning. Thing is we don't even know if we have ever received a reg cert for my wifes car - we have the pleasure of living in an area which has had one of the worst postal delivery services in the country.
Dudley
Yep, been there and read the entire site (well almost) and not a whisper about having to take the registration certificate with you when you go for an MOT
Loads of info on why its being done but nowt about the nuts and bolts of how it works!
Dudley
arthur daley ( snipped-for-privacy@Tesc.cam.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
It's a new one on me, too - I've not had a new-style ticket yet, although I took one of the fleet round the other day but they were too busy due to not having a clue how to use the new 'pooter... Nobody mentioned V5.
That's a new on me. Was it because the car was just coming up to 3yrs old and you wanted 13mths MOT?
John
arthur daley ( snipped-for-privacy@Tesc.cam.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Or, indeed, what the hell you do if you're MOTing a new import.
You need an MOT before you can get a V5. If you need a V5 before you can get an MOT...
I know I didn't need the reg when I had mine done...
PC Paul ( snipped-for-privacy@home.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
A new computerised MOT?
Hiho. One way to find out.
I'm about to take 'erself's car up, and I can't find the V5.
Not heard about *having* to produce a Reg Cert but it has always been the case that an MOT station could refuse to test a vehicle if it wanted to see it and it wasn't available. Usually this applies to a vehicle on a cherished plate and the tester needs to know the year for emission standards etc.
Graham
You won't need it. I've just had mine MOT'd this morning under the new system and I specifically asked about the V5. The tester said it's not a requirement but can be useful if there's a discrepancy in the car details between what's on the DVLA database (which is used for the new MOT) and what's on the V5.
Be prepared to spend a bit longer than before at the testing station. It takes longer to do the paperwork.
Volff ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
I didn't.
So that's fairly definitive, really. No need for a V5 for an MOT.
I head in to my local Cit Specialist, who doesn't do MOTs - so it goes up the road to a little local garage who mainly do MOTs.
The car was back in normal time, the certificate followed it three hours later...
The new certificate's a bit naff, and the fail sheet's laughable (handbrake ratchet worn to excess = tester couldn't figure out how to release it because the button had got rotated into the "safety catch" position - not mine, I hasten to add...) - but I do like the new 'screen reminder.
You won't need the V5 for a new style MOT unless you are doing the first MOT early and want it to start on the car's first birthday.
Alan
you should already be issued with a screen reminder, we've been issuing them for a couple of years, blue stickers with the old mot logo on them.
re the v5, the v5 wont be a legal requirement to produce but as said in an earlier post it will be handy if any additional information is required, will save you time and us time.
reg ( snipped-for-privacy@somewhere.fsnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Oh, absolutely - I peeled one off to stick this one on.
I meant I like the new one - bit more info on it, and (best of all) the date's legible unlike the scrawl on the old one...
aye your right about the old one, ive had to use a cd marker pen to write on the ones i issue, use a normal pen and by the time the mot is due youve got no reminder date to look at as its vanished.
I've never had a reminder sticker. Does anyone know if you will get a postal reminder with the new MOT like you do for VED? That would be useful to someone like me who rushes around in a panic every year to get the car legal for the next year.
The message from "reg" contains these words:
Oh gawd, don't tell me they've got a new logo? How much did /that/ cost?
Bloody marketing people - we all know what the MOT logo looks like - so they change it.
I am a Mot tester & we have only gone live on the computer system a week last Wednesday.
The V5 document can contain certain helpful information in narrowing down an exact vehicle match.
Even though you enter in the registration number & chassis number it does not guarantee that it will find only one vehicle exact match.
Sometimes entering only the reg & chassis number might bring up a list of say 10 possible examples & further input of information narrows the list down further still.
In a nutshell it looks like VOSA are relying on testing stations to complete certain details.
I must admit to being a bit miffed that a reg & chassis number does not automatically bring up an exact single vehicle match.
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