The UK MOT Test
We have 3 of the latest one man automated M.O.T. bays and now employ four M.O.T. inspectors.
This will give us more appointments available for all our customers.
Same day appointments subject to availability (please phone)
What is an MOT Test?
The local MOT garage does, however, carry responsibility for the quality of day to day Testing at that Testing Station. The garage, either through the individual, the company or the partnership if that is how it is set up, becomes what is known as the Authorised Examiner (AE), having been authorised by the Vehicle Inspectorate to carry out MOT Tests on their behalf. So generally, but not necessarily the AE is the owner of the business or the business itself.
In turn the AE has the power to nominate specially trained individuals to carry out MOT Testing on customers' cars. So the official name for an MOT Tester is Nominated Tester (NT) because he or she has been nominated by the AE. It should be noted that this is why it is impossible for aspiring young MOT Testers to go to college and learn the profession they have first to be trained at a Testing Garage and then nominated by the AE.
An aspiring Tester also has to have either a certain minimum formal qualification or sit a special examination set by the VI before then going on a two day course set up by the VI to, as they say 'calibrate his or her skills'.
(Despite being ultimately fully responsible for all MOT Testing, the VI have never published either a complete training programme or an approved syllabus to train MOT Testers).
So your local Testing station is in charge of the Tests they do, but the Government, through the VI is responsible overall for the general quality of MOT Testing. To do this they have about 100 experts called Vehicle Examiners who spend much of their time monitoring the performance of NTs and AEs.
The Testing Garage
The local MOT garage does, however, carry responsibility for the quality of day to day Testing at that Testing Station. The garage, either through the individual, the company or the partnership if that is how it is set up, becomes what is known as the Authorised Examiner (AE), having been authorised by the Vehicle Inspectorate to carry out MOT Tests on their behalf. So generally, but not necessarily the AE is the owner of the business or the business itself.
In turn the AE has the power to nominate specially trained individuals to carry out MOT Testing on customers' cars. So the official name for an MOT Tester is Nominated Tester (NT) because he or she has been nominated by the AE. It should be noted that this is why it is impossible for aspiring young MOT Testers to go to college and learn the profession they have first to be trained at a Testing Garage and then nominated by the AE.
An aspiring Tester also has to have either a certain minimum formal qualification or sit a special examination set by the VI before then going on a two day course set up by the VI to, as they say 'calibrate his or her skills'.
(Despite being ultimately fully responsible for all MOT Testing, the VI have never published either a complete training programme or an approved syllabus to train MOT Testers).
So your local Testing station is in charge of the Tests they do, but the Government, through the VI is responsible overall for the general quality of MOT Testing. To do this they have about 100 experts called Vehicle Examiners who spend much of their time monitoring the performance of NTs and AEs.