• 1.3 million MOT failures on the road
    • 10/05/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    One-in-10 cars that passed their MOT last year should have failed, according to an investigation by What Car?. This equates to nearly 1.3 million cars on the road now with potentially dangerous defects. As part of the 2021-2022 MOT Compliance Survey, a team of DVSA expert vehicle examiners retested 1,732 [...]
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  • Car thefts near 100,000 in a year
    • 29/03/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    A Freedom of Information request to The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) by Claims Management & Adjusting (CMA) has revealed the total number of vehicle thefts in the UK last year and identified the nation’s worst car crime hotspots. According to the DVLA, constabularies across the UK recorded [...]
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  • Drivers facing 17 million training hours
    • 28/03/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    According to DVSA statistics 487,505 Driver Qualification Cards issued in 2019 are set to expire before the end of 2024. Between them, these drivers who have to renew their card will need to attend a staggering 17 million hours of periodic training. On average, that’s 3.4 million hours of training each year, for [...]
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  • Deadline looms for MOT testers
    • 03/03/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has warned that 25,000 testers have still not completed their assessment and risk being suspended from testing when the deadline passes on 31 March. To ease the administrative process, the IMI’s MOT Training and Assessment package is a three-hour e-Learning training [...]
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  •  EVs experience higher MOT failure rates
    • 18/08/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Electric vehicles have higher MOT failure rates than equivalently aged hybrid and petrol vehicles. According to new research by BookMyGarage, DVSA data showed electric vehicles have a MOT failure rate of 11.4% for three-year-old vehicles, which rises to 21.8% for six-year-old vehicles. At 11.2%, three-year-old [...]
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  • Driving tests back to pre-pandemic levels
    • 15/08/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has reported that the number of practical tests have returned to pre-Covid numbers. Comparing practical tests in January to March 2022 with the same months in 2020, it found that a total of 425,900 practical car tests were conducted – and increase of 14%. Out of [...]
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  • Chips down for MOTs
    • 17/03/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Autoglass has revealed that 41,910 UK drivers failed their MOT test in 2021 due to a chipped, cracked or otherwise damaged windscreen, up eight per cent on the previous year. The information follows a freedom of information request submitted to the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Meanwhile, [...]
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  • MOT demand set to exceed capacity
    • 04/03/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Motorists are being warned that a surge in demand for MOT tests this March could see them struggle to get their MOT renewed or obtain a first MOT. However, the Institute of Motor Industry (IMI) is warning there could be another challenge on the horizon for drivers – finding a legally compliant MOT tester [...]
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  • Deadline approaches for MOT testers
    • 01/02/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The DVSA has revealed that approximately 50,000 MOT testers have yet to complete their Annual Assessment. It has said that it will not be extending the deadline for testers to do so, which is 31 March. Chris Price, head of MOT policy at the DVSA, said: “For the past couple of years, we have extended the annual [...]
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  • Seven million MOTs due in coming months
    • 17/08/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    More than seven million MOTs are due to expire during September and October, according to the latest figures released by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). That is around 1.3 million more than normal, or a 22% rise. The rise in demand is a result of the six-month MOT exemption introduced between 30 [...]
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