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How to create a Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) email alerts account and update your subscription preferences.
Equipment approved for MOT testing, including tyre tread-depth gauges, roller brake testers, headlamp aim testers, diesel smoke meters and decelerometers.
Check the balance of your pre-funded account, top it up, and view your invoices.
How to buy MOT slots so your business can record MOT test results, including managing your account and getting refunds.
From 12 June 2026, MOT centres must display the updated MOT test fees and appeals poster (VT9A).
Fees and test lengths for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and trailer MOTs, prohibition clearances, dangerous goods (ADR) tests, TIR tests and low emission tests.
Vehicle tax and registration rules for people with a Ukrainian plated vehicle who have been issued a visa on the Family, Sponsor or Extension Ukraine visa schemes, or the Ukraine Permission Extension visa scheme.
Security cards will no longer work for signing in from 25 June 2026, and shortcomings for the fast track disciplinary process are being updated from 1 July 2026.
Samples of MOT test failure notices that can be given to you when your vehicle fails the test.
From 1 June 2026, zero emission goods vehicles between 3,501kg and 4,250kg will become class 7 vehicles and will need to have a class 7 MOT test.
How to find an MOT centre to test your dangerous goods vehicle, declare it’s safe to be tested, and what to bring to the test.
Get an MOT centre authorisation certificate (VT9) for your MOT centre's noticeboard if you've lost or damaged the original.
A list of topics and examples of the types of questions you'll be asked when you take the MOT tester annual assessment.
DVSA is introducing new jacking equipment specifications for class 4 MOT test centres from 1 April 2026.
Changes to how to record training from April 2024, avoiding battery drain issues on some vehicles and what to do with low diesel smoke plate values.
How to set up an MOT centre for HGVs, trailers, buses and coaches including eligibility, what you need and how to apply.
How to check if a vehicle presented for test is affected by the Citroën C3, C4, DS3, DS4 and DS5 stop drive recall, and what to do if the vehicle is affected.
Fees and test lengths for public service vehicle (PSV) MOTs, prohibition removals, low emission tests and notifiable alterations.
How to tell the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) that you're closing one or more of the MOT centres in your business.
From 9 January 2026, MOT testers and authorised examiner principals will not be able to hold any MOT roles following a 2 or 5 year cessation.
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