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Check the MOT history of a vehicle from 2005 onwards, including if it passed or failed, its mileage and why it failed, download MOT test certificate
Find out the MOT test status of a vehicle - check the date of the MOT test and the expiry date of an MOT test pass.
Use the MOT testing service to record MOT test results, update your examiner details, and check and buy MOT slots.
Sign up to get free reminders by text message or email a month before your MOT is due
Contact the police to report a vehicle with no MOT - you need the vehicle's number plate, make, model and colour.
Get a replacement MOT certificate online if yours is lost or damaged - what you’ll need, other ways to apply, what it costs.
Vehicle tax exemptions and MOT exemptions for vehicles built or first registered before 1984.
When you need an MOT for your vehicle, what it costs, what happens if your vehicle fails, and how to get mistakes on the MOT certificate fixed.
Declare exemption from MOT.
Check how to get an annual test (MOT) for a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or public service vehicle (PSV) - how to book the test, prepare the vehicle and documents and the test result.
Find a course so you can qualify as either an MOT tester or an MOT manager
Find a test centre and book an MOT (annual test) for a heavy goods vehicle (HGV), public service vehicle (PSV) or trailer in England, Scotland and Wales
How to complete your training and take your assessment: how many training hours you need to do, booking your assessment, recording the result.
Becoming an MOT tester - eligibility, qualifications, training courses, annual training and assessment
Vehicles which must have the annual test - buses, coaches, lorries and trailers, booking and fees.
Apply to set up or change an MOT test station, including becoming an authorised examiner (the person or business that runs it).
You can appeal an MOT test result if you think it's wrong, for example, if the vehicle failed its MOT and you think it should have passed.
You must declare if an HGV is exempt from needing a tachograph when you take it for its annual test (MOT).
What you need to do to set up your MOT test station, including applying for MOT status and authorised examiner status, MOT special notices
If your HGV vehicle is an exempt goods vehicle weighing more than 3,500kg or a public service vehicle you will need to use this form.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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