MOT rule changes: 20 May 2018 Updated 3 April 2018

[YOG]

The MOT test will change on 20 May 2018, with new defect types, stricter rules for diesel car emissions, and some vehicles over 40 years old becoming exempt.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mot-changes-20-may-2018

 

[N1X]

That means my 1971 Triumph GT6 is now exempt from the MOT as well as road tax.

 

[RoadWarrior]

Major fault for "can see smoke of any colour coming from the exhaust." Every single diesel that's over 5 years old I've seen has smoked black upon hard acceleration. No matter what devices they have, DPF etc.

Glad I've never bought into the diesel garbage. They used to be really tough engines before they added all the emissions garbage to them. DPF, EGR and high pressured fuel systems, that wipes out the whole system if one part of it breaks.

Of course, for as long as the MOT is about and little garages do tests, there'll always be garages doing underhands for surepasses.

 

[zinc2000]

I love the list of new things to be checked now..includes "if brake pads or discs are missing" can you get away with that at the moment then :?
Nice thing is my MOT man will most likely still adopt the same common sense approach as he does now, normally along the lines of "if I tell you this needs fixing I trust you to go fix it today once I pass it"

 

[YOG]

This has been updated, as at 31st March 2018. ( https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mot-changes-20-may-2018 )
Now includes a link to samples of the new MOT certificate designs.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mot-test-pass-certificate-samples
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mot-test-failure-notice-samples

After 20th May 2018 - if a car is taken in for a new MOT test before it's current certificate runs out and it fails, it cannot continue to be driven on that old MOT until it runs out.