The Council's transport services team offer the facility to carry out MoT tests for Class IV, V and VII vehicles (cars, minibuses and light commercial vehicles). They also carry out inspections on Hackney and Private hire taxis.
The MOT is not an alternative to properly servicing and maintaining a vehicle and is by no means a 12 month guarantee of the vehicle's roadworthiness. It is important to realise that the MOT test does not cover areas of a vehicle's mechanical condition that are not related to safety or emissions (important features such as the clutch, gearbox and the entire engine are not tested). Neither does it determine whether or not after market features fitted are legal for use on the public highway, so a vehicle with a recent MOT certificate could still have major mechanical defects or have features which would deem it illegal to be used on the road.
Please contact our Transport Section to book an appointment.
