New Style MoT Certificate

Possetjohn

Hi All,

Hope this is not already posted somewhere! I did a search and could find anything relevant. I don't often read this board!

Just took my car in for its MoT test today. It passes no probs:) but I was gob-smacked when I saw the new style certificate!! It is just a plain piece of white A4 paper, Landscape printed in Black with a few VOSA logos on it!

It looks unbelievably easy to forge!! No watermarks or security stuff!

I have used the garage for a few years and they have been quite reliable and I know the owner so I discussed it with him. He said they have been told its a cost saving measure to avoid the preprinted forms!

I know everything is on the VOSA database and just tried the link to check your MOT http://http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/Mot/DG_10020539 which worked fine and gave the correct details for today's test.

Anybody else seen one of these new certs and have any opinions? Apparently they came in on 16/10/11.

I think if I was buying a second hand car, I would check the MoT against the VOSA database!!

mikey72

Already been a thread were someone bought one with the certificate copied, with the advisories covered up.
Not a step forward really.

rob_wiltshire

And no MOT reminder sticker on the new forms either - always found it handy to stick inside my windscreen as a constant reminder of MOT expiry (especially as you don't get any reminder by post).

Definitely a backward step for lots of reasons.

Notmyrealname

TBH, like tax discs, issuing an MOT certificate is pretty pointless. Every pass or fail is recorded on a database and the police just query that. The only thing a MOT certificate does nowadays is serve as a reminder.

continualdiamond

Yes we took our car in yesterday for its MOT and couldn't believe the difference.

But MOTs do surprise me as really its on saying on the date you took it in that it was road worthy. Anything as we know can happen to cars every day in between MOT expiry.

I'm from Australia and no such thing as MOTs, your responsibilty to make sure you car is road worthy every day cos you can be randomly selected anywhere by the police, who will serve you with a notice to take your car over the 'pits' at which then it is inspected.

I never got selected, but my cousin did twice in 1 year.

Also car tax (rego we call it) is not on paper with your car details displayed, its a sticker that has the month/year expiry date. Try and peel it off to reposition it and it will rip, I never once managed to get mine off in 1 piece when I was replacing it with a new car rego sticker.

Norman_Castle

Already been a thread were someone bought one with the certificate copied, with the advisories covered up.

If there are no advisories does the new mot state this or is there just a space for them to be printed?

edit, after looking at this http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/repository/Plain%20Paper%20MOT%20Test%20Certificate%20%28VT%2020%29.pdf it would be easy to write "no advisories" and reprint this.

daveyjp

But anyone can check MOT online. Reminders can be sent to a mobile.

[Deleted User]

I think they just call it an MOT Receipt now.

I got one last month when I got an MOT. Looks so easy to make a copy in Microsoft Word.

daveyjp

Easy to copy, not to be trusted, better check online. Get used to it, the V5C will be the next to go.

Weird_Nev

Notmyrealname wrote: »

TBH, like tax discs, issuing an MOT certificate is pretty pointless. Every pass or fail is recorded on a database and the police just query that. The only thing a MOT certificate does nowadays is serve as a reminder.

But the database could be wrong, and then the Police State will just seize your car with no comeback!

It's the thin end of the wedge ,at the end of the day we have to stand together against this tyranny.

patman99

So what. The old style certificates never had the advisories on them. They were on a separete sheet that always went straight in the bin the moment the car got home anyway.

We are a strange nation. The whole way DVLA and VOSA works needs to be changed. For instance, why can we not adopt the Swiss system for issuing replacement number plates ?. That way, the Govt. makes an income and the plates go only to the address of the buyer as registered with HMRC.