MoT Test

Can you just take the bike to be tested, or are its documents required
as well?

Thanks.

 

Just the bike but an old certificate would ensure that the new MOT ran to a
year after the old one expires (assuming it's tested no more than a month
before expiry).

Mark

 

They don't test documents.

 

If it is the bike's first MoT I think you need to take the V5 so that
they can cross check the VIN.

--

+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Pete Fisher at Home: |
| Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z |
| Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+

 

They don't test documents.[/QUOTE]

Producing the V5 before the tester starts tends to make the process
smoother, however. If the current certificate has not expired, it
could be produced as well, in order to gain a 'forwrd dated'
certtificate if the bike passes scrutiny.

 

If the current certificate has not expired, it
could be produced as well, in order to gain a 'forwrd dated'
certtificate if the bike passes scrutiny.
[/QUOTE]

You would imagine, in these computerised days, that the "forward dating"
could be automatic.

 

Higgins wrote:
[of MOTs]

It certainly is - happened with both my car and SWMBO's car this year.

I can't see why a motorbike test should be any different.

 

It is. The computer knows when your current MOT expires and prints
the new one to run from that date.

 

Is everywhere computerised now? My car testing place only went computerised
at the beginning of this year. Many handwritten MOT certificates will still
be current. I don't believe these are on the database and would need to be
produced should someone require a forward dated test.

 

If they're not, they can't do MOTs.

The local (to work) bike place can no longer do MOTs as they don't
have, and can't afford to get, the computer equipment required.

Quite, but this will only be true for a year after it all went
computerised, and I'm not sure when that was.

 

wessie wrote:

But you live in Wales. They may have had to get a coarser bit of string
to increase the bandwidth first.