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How to create a Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) email alerts account and update your subscription preferences.
Fees and test lengths for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer MOTs, prohibition clearances, dangerous goods (ADR) tests, TIR tests and low emission tests.
Equipment approved for MOT testing, including tyre tread-depth gauges, roller brake testers, headlamp aim testers, diesel smoke meters and decelerometers.
How to buy MOT slots so your business can record MOT test results, including managing your account and getting refunds.
Changes to which browser versions the MOT testing service supports, and information on using a roller brake tester for applied parking brake tests.
Vehicle tax and registration rules for people with a Ukrainian plated vehicle who have been issued a visa on the Family, Sponsor or Extension Ukraine visa schemes, or the Ukraine Permission Extension visa scheme.
Samples of MOT test failure notices that can be given to you when your vehicle fails the test.
Changes to the MOT testing guide from 8 January 2024.
Changes to annual training hours and updates to the MOT testing guide.
Get an MOT centre authorisation certificate (VT9) for your MOT centre's noticeboard if you've lost or damaged the original.
How to provide MOT tester and manager qualification courses, and MOT tester annual training courses – including the topics the training must cover.
Examples of the types of questions you'll be asked when you take the MOT tester annual assessment.
How to set up an MOT centre for HGVs, trailers, buses and coaches including eligibility, what you need and how to apply.
How to tell the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) that you're closing one or more of the MOT centres in your business.
How to understand your brake test report including what is checked during the test, what will fail, and how to identify problems that might need repairs.
MOT centres can display this poster about the MOT diesel smoke test if they want to.
How to prepare your HGV for the brake testing part of the annual test (MOT).
What MOT testers need to know about how hybrid, electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles work, and what to do when inspecting these vehicles.
What information MOT testers and managers should regularly check to make sure there are no problems with test quality.
The main things that will be checked when you take your motorcycle for an MOT test.
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