The x miles would be stipulated by vosa/who ever deals with MOT's but I recon that 20000 miles would be a reasonable amount to set the intervals. Plus the first MOT would be done at 3 years/60000 miles whichever comes first.

For you doing 30000 miles a year you would have to get a MOT done 20000 miles after the previous one and the miles/year counter would be reset to 0. Effectively you would have a year with 1 MOT followed by a year with 2 MOT's followed by a year with 1 MOT etc etc. That is based on you doing 30000 miles a year.

So my car would need 2 MOT per year along with the other 30 cars in the fleet.

Every lorry out there would be looking at one as low as 1 month.

It wouldn't work on that figure, it's too low.

I usually change my car just before the three years is up, the mileage is about 70 - 80k. Twice I have gone over the three years and had an MOT, on both occasions they passed without any issues except a note that the brake pads were at 4mm. These were the original pads.

As for DPF I have never had any problems in 100k miles.

Edited 7 December, 201312 yr by moley

We were talking MOT's,  i mentioned 'Checks' and drive in & Visual Inspections.

Simple 10 minute Drive Through Inspection Stations instead of VOSA road side pull ins at a temporary location.

 

HGV's do require Maintenance, Taxi's do get Tested or Checked twice a year.

What is needed are changes to some of the poorly maintained or checked vehicles.

 

The MOT used to say on the back how it was done to meet the Minimum Requirement (Paraphrase)

Done in the day,  'You were required to keep it to a MOT standard' untill the next test.

We know people get a car MOT'd then get on with Modifying, run for a year, and then fingers crossed, or prepare to pass a MOT again.

 

A car that passes with advisories, then gets hammered for another 365 days, maybe covers 5,000 miles, but equally can do 50,000 miles.

no maintenance has been done.

It might fail one year later, it might have been a fail for the past 11 months.

 

The UK Government & DVLA are dropping the Paper Tax Disc, and that means more ANPR Cameras.

They will now be able to track your vehicle more easily.

Not only do they know when and where you MOT, is it Insured, they know or can as they change the Law,

Average Speeds you do over wide areas, Locations you are in, Tread on your tyres as you pass over Sensors etc.

 

You can maybe expect more 'Tickets in the post', or hopefully 'Please attend a test centre notices', your vehicle triggered a Noise Sensor,

Your 'car tyres are under the Minimum Requirement'.

 

Its soon going to be as much as about Revenue Raising as it is about anything else.

People pay Zero VED & very low VED, 

easy now to introduce 'Mileage Tax',   plug in the car & check the ECU and bill the Owner by Emissions & Mileage covered annually. Charged on the Bridges or Tunnels used, Road Types and routes being driven.

 

george