VOSA special notice 8-2007

For anyone with potentially dodgy plates, this is the laymans guide:

Thanks for the heads-up.

Out of interest, what specifically did they fail on?

Chris

I had a few today too with...

No 'BS AU 145d' displayed.

Most were plates fitted by car-sales with their name across the bottom...

Does this apply retrospectively?

how you getting on with the c*ck up with the XXXXX's being printed in the wrong place, every other one prints right across my signature, no doubt another update will coming our way to sort it, if its not broken why fix it !!!

Nice to know the red dragon is now allowed. ISTR a bit of a fuss when people first started using plates with them on.

Yes I would like to know that. The plates on the 51 plate Clio I have are the original ones, have the BSAU marking, but not the postcode. I suppose that's now a fail? Good of them to give us, the punter, warning of this, it goes for its test tomorrow. No time to change anything now.

Reading that document, if the vehicle was first used on or after 1st Sept

Steve

shazzbat ( snipped-for-privacy@spamlessness.fsnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

A requirement which has been there for all new plates made in England or Wales since '01.

Yes, I can see how that would deem a car 'unroadworthy'

It doesn't, it deems unMOTable.

ThePunisher ( snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Who ever said that MOT == roadworthy?

ITYF that that parity is explicitly denied by VOSA/DfT.

"The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) provides a range of licensing, testing and enforcement services with the aim of improving the roadworthiness standards of vehicles ensuring the compliance of operators and drivers, and supporting the independent Traffic Commissioners. "

( snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Lovely. You do know that VOSA do quite a lot more than just run MOTs?

From the back of a handy MOT certificate...

"About the MOT Test" "An MOT test pass confirms that, when the vehicle was examined in accordance with Section 45 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, it met the minimum legal requirements for those items prescribed under the Act. It does not mean that the vehicle fully meets all legal requirements or that it will continue to be roadworthy for the next year. It is your responsability to keep the vehicle maintained so that it would always meet MOT standards and be free from other defects"

I know they do NOT explicitly deny MOT = Roadworthy, which is the point under discussion.

Pity you didn't read that before making such a stupid statement above.

According to your quote it seems they do the exact opposite of what you claimed, and imply that it is a test of roadworthiness by stating that a vehicle may not "continue" to be roadworthy for the next year.

If the vehicle is not fully legal, as it may be, even if it passes an MoT, then it is not roadworthy.

Mrcheerful

( snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

All this reminds me of the Monty Python sketch

There are many things that would make a vehicle not fully legal, but it could still be roadworthy.