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How to Prepare for your MOT Test

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MOT Video 2 Interior Inspection

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Toyota - How to pass your MOT test

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'Shaker plates' – wheel play detectors – MOT Test of suspension

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Annual MOT could be scrapped to ease cost of living crisis

The MOT test is an annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness aspects and exhaust emissions required in the United Kingdom for most vehicles over three years old used on any way defined as a road in the Road Traffic Act 1988; it does not apply only to highways but includes other places available for public use, which are not highways. In Northern Ireland the equivalent requirement applies after four years. The requirement does not apply to vehicles used only on various small islands with no convenient connection "to a road in any part of Great Britain"; no similar exemption is listed at the beginning of 2014 for Northern Ireland, which has a single inhabited island, Rathlin.