{"id":7804,"date":"2012-01-10T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:27:55","slug":"new-mot-rules-introduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7804","title":{"rendered":"New MOT Rules Introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is an old article, so bear in mind any recent changes to the rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A reader submitted this <a title=\"New MOT Rules could trash your car\" href=\"http:\/\/money.aol.co.uk\/2012\/01\/09\/new-mot-rules-may-trash-your-car\/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl4%7Csec3_lnk4%26pLid%3D91258&amp;a_dgi=aolshare_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link concerning the new MoT rules<\/a> which have come into force.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit alarmist, claiming that the rules \u201cmay trash your car\u201d. After all, at least two of the examples it cites \u2013 faulty ABS and faulty seat-belt pre-tensioners \u2013 are very important, and failing an MoT because they\u2019re broken serves the owner right.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if you\u2019re going to insist on owning a car, you automatically accept that you need to keep it in a condition that isn\u2019t going to kill other people (including your passengers). If you can\u2019t afford it \u2013 or if you disagree with that responsibility &#8211; then you also accept the consequences, and tough luck!<\/p>\n<p>VOSA \u2013 the Vehicle and Operator Service Agency, who manage MoT regulations \u2013 will not fully implement the changes until April. So at least that gives people some time to get things sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>The article advises buying a 90s banger if you want to avoid the costly electronic gizmo hassle. Unfortunately, it glosses over that other major MoT problem. RUST. Not to mention mechanical wear-and-tear.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what my view on the EU-driven legislation is, because it doesn\u2019t really concern me. However, just because people can\u2019t afford it, or don\u2019t like EU-legislation of any kind, isn\u2019t a reason for it to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, cars should be roadworthy \u2013 and many aren\u2019t. So in that respect, I <strong>know<\/strong> what my view is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an old article, so bear in mind any recent changes to the rules. A reader submitted this link concerning the new MoT rules which have come into force. It\u2019s a bit alarmist, claiming that the rules \u201cmay trash your car\u201d. After all, at least two of the examples it cites \u2013 faulty ABS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}