MOT every 2 years for vans over 20 yrs old?

[tonyidle]

I suspect the real reasons for the exemption are that it has increasingly difficult to apply modern standards to ageing vehicles. To perform an MoT on vehicles beyond a certain age means the MoT software needs multiple, and increasing, means of accommodating the many checks that cannot be performed. It also means that the person performing the test has to understand systems that no longer exist on current vehicles. As far as a voluntary MoT on an exempt vehicle is concerned I'm not certain that an"official" MoT can be performed - a safety check along the lines of an MoT can be undertaken by a trained MoT tester but cars beyond a certain age would all fail once the connection to the MoT database is established if only because of emissions checks.

 

[Ranger]

Vehicles used before September 1975 do not require an emissions check and most classic owners who have potentially exempt vehicles still have them tested.

 

[Deleted member 57092]

I was an mot tester for twenty years or so and am still qualified to test although to start testing again I would have to do an ‘observed test’ with a vosa engineer first as I’ve not tested for a few years. I also set up and ran an MOT station which I still own and have leased out (VTS1167B4)
Vosa used to prefer that vehicles were tested ‘as presented’ so that the government data on vehicles with defects that were driving around reflected the actual state of cars etc on the road. BUT that is what they preferred not the actual rules so a garage was perfectly entitled to service a vehicle, fix any defects and tgen mot and give a straight pass.
Pre MOT checks
I owned the garage and all the equipment in it, what I chose to do with that equipment was up to me , if I was doing a ‘pre mot’ and the vosa man walked in nothing happened, if it wasn’t entered on the mot system as a test then it wasn’t a test.
Fees
Entirely between me and the customer, nearly all the mot fee is garage labour anyway the actual test fee is only a couple of quid.
The pass rate can be and is manipulated by garages encouraged by vosa, if your pass rate is too high then fail a few on a blown bulb, replace it and issue a pass , if its too low fail it, complete the test, put the bulb in and retest.
Simples.
Most vehicles that havn’t been checked over beforehand can be failed on things like blown bulbs and empty washer fluid.
This may have all changed in the last couple of years but I doubt it !
Paul
Oh and really old cars are exempt from nearly everything so testing them takes half the time !