Services

Check the MOT history of a vehicle from 2005 onwards, including if it passed or failed, its mileage and why it failed, download MOT test certificate

Find out the MOT test status of a vehicle - check the date of the MOT test and the expiry date of an MOT test pass.

Use the MOT testing service to record MOT test results, update your examiner details, and check and buy MOT slots.

Sign up to get free reminders by text message or email a month before your MOT is due

Contact the police to report a vehicle with no MOT - you need the vehicle's number plate, make, model and colour.

When you need an MOT for your vehicle, what it costs, what happens if your vehicle fails, and how to get mistakes on the MOT certificate fixed.

Get a replacement MOT certificate online if yours is lost or damaged - what you’ll need, other ways to apply, what it costs.

Vehicle tax exemptions and MOT exemptions for vehicles built or first registered before 1984.

Declare exemption from MOT.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

Check how to get an annual test (MOT) for a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or public service vehicle (PSV) - how to book the test, prepare the vehicle and documents and the test result.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

How to complete your training and take your assessment: how many training hours you need to do, booking your assessment, recording the result.

Find a test centre and book an MOT (annual test) for a heavy goods vehicle (HGV), public service vehicle (PSV) or trailer in England, Scotland and Wales

Becoming an MOT tester - eligibility, qualifications, training courses, annual training and assessment

Vehicles which must have the annual test - buses, coaches, lorries and trailers, booking and fees.

Apply to set up or change an MOT test station, including becoming an authorised examiner (the person or business that runs it).

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

You can appeal an MOT test result if you think it's wrong, for example, if the vehicle failed its MOT and you think it should have passed.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Find a course so you can qualify as either an MOT tester or an MOT manager

Vehicle emissions testing - including the MOT test, roadside checks and Air Quality Management Areas

You must declare if an HGV is exempt from needing a tachograph when you take it for its annual test (MOT).

• From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

What you need to do to set up your MOT test station, including applying for MOT status and authorised examiner status, MOT special notices