MOT-type checks outside of an MOT

Ganga

AdrianC said:

Ganga said:

I remember when my dad has a right strop when they cancelled the 10 year test ! mind he only had old bangers

It was never "once every ten years". It has always been every single year since the car became old enough to be testable.

It was introduced in September 1960 as being required once vehicles hit ten years old, hence the "ten year test" name.
But the failure rate was so high, it was only just over a year after the test was introduced before it was reduced to being required from seven years old, January 1962, and it was only another five years before it was brought to the current three years, April 1967.

The thing that always astonishes me is that they didn't start checking for body and chassis corrosion until 1977...

I know that and never said it was every 10 years!! it would be madness to test a car twice in 20 years.

AdrianC

Ganga said:

AdrianC said:

Ganga said:

I remember when my dad has a right strop when they cancelled the 10 year test ! mind he only had old bangers

It was never "once every ten years". It has always been every single year since the car became old enough to be testable.

It was introduced in September 1960 as being required once vehicles hit ten years old, hence the "ten year test" name.
But the failure rate was so high, it was only just over a year after the test was introduced before it was reduced to being required from seven years old, January 1962, and it was only another five years before it was brought to the current three years, April 1967.

The thing that always astonishes me is that they didn't start checking for body and chassis corrosion until 1977...

I know that and never said it was every 10 years!! it would be madness to test a car twice in 20 years.

So if he only had "old bangers" (by which I was assuming you meant over 10yo) then the change from 10yo to 7yo minimum age would have made no difference to him... As it was, it would have only gained him exemption from a single test - and it was pretty damn negligible back in those days.

sheslookinhot

motcheck said:

motcheck said:

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