MOTs
Check the MOT status of a vehicle, get MOT reminders, checklists for MOT testers
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Services
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Check the MOT history of a vehicle
Check the MOT history of a vehicle from 2005 onwards, including if it passed or failed, its mileage and why it failed
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Check the MOT status of a vehicle
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.
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Record MOT test results
Use the MOT testing service to record MOT test results, update your examiner details, and check and buy MOT slots
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Get MOT reminders
Sign up to get free reminders by text message or email a month before your MOT is due
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Getting an MOT
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.
Guidance and regulation
- MOT inspection manual: cars and passenger vehicles
- MOT testing guide for test stations
- MOT inspection checklist: cars and passengers vehicles
- MOT inspection manual: HGVs
- MOT inspection manual: motorcycles
News and communications
Research and statistics
- DfI Driver, Vehicle, Operator, and Enforcement Statistics - 2020-21 Quarter 1
- DfI Driver, Vehicle, Operator, and Enforcement Statistics - 2019-20 Quarter 4
- DfI Driver, Vehicle, Operator, and Enforcement Statistics - 2019-20 Quarter 3
- Commercial vehicle testing data for Great Britain
- MOT testing data for Great Britain
Policy papers and consultations
- Extending first MOT date to 4 years
- Roadworthiness testing for vehicles of historical interest
- Exhaust emission standards for road vehicles: revised booklet
- Revised emission requirements in road vehicles regulations
- Historic vehicles MOT exemption review
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Active MOT test stations
- Vehicles failing an MOT following an appeal to VOSA (F0005451)
- VOSA MOT garage risk assessments 2012/13 (F0005281)
- VOSA effectiveness report, 2012 to 2013
- MOT scheme memorandum of agreement