sneezing7 wrote:I have just had a look at my MOT disc and it will expire at the end of this month.
Basically from what I understand a renewal letter should be sent to be right? My car is properlly insured and registered, so there should be no issue there.
What happens if no letter comes? What do I do?
Also, what happens in MOT testing? What do they check? How much will it cost? Where do I go (Limassol)?
Thanks in advance
Dont catch a cold "sneezing"!
Department of Transport only send out letters/reminders for the vehicles very first MoT. After that its down to the owner to arrange the MoT on or before the windscreen MoT disc/certificate expirey date.
Take the vehicle and importantly the MOTOR VEHICLE CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION to an MoT test station and pay the £25 test fee.
The MoT station will find the vehicles registration on the DoT database and update with the result of the MoT test.
Assuming the vehicle passes the test the MoT station will issue you with the test certificates and a print out from the diagnostic test machine. If all the stations have the same test machines it will be entitled
'Simpes-Faip Hpa FULLY INTEGRATED TEST LINE', this title can be found immediately below the boxed area containing the MoT stations address etc, the print out will give the result of the tests for braking and exhaust emmisions, lighting is on there as well but does not appear yet to be utilised. Keep these papers in the vehicle with the registration certificate is case of an accident or a police check before receiving the windscreen disc.
The windsreen disc should arrive shortly after the test, some say within a week while others say it takes much longer but in any case the original certificate must be kept as discs come off in accidents or in the event of a smashed screen.
Checks made during the test seem to vary depending on which MoT station you use, a neighbour's car failed because it had no rear mud flaps while mine (same make same model) passed without them at a different station. It's probably as well to imagine that the tester is going to carry out every conceivable check on the vehicle to ensure a pass and road safety.
Charging for failure re-tests seems to be a bit of an unknown with some saying there is no charge and others saying that they've paid the full whack. This may relate to the number of failures the vehicle has within a given period of a time limit.
I have not used an MoT test station in Limassol so cant advise but the original and only MoT notification I received two years ago contained the addresses of all stations in the RoC, twenty something of which were in Limassol. Best to ask locally or look through the 'Yellow Pages'.
In a previous life I was for my sins and among many other things, the transport 'O' (operator) license holder for a large company in S. E. England and as such had dealings with the UK Ministry of Transport Vehicle Inspectorate. Remember very well visiting the Hayes Middlesex vehicle inspection station and finding Cypriot transport officials there, just be grateful it was the UK model Cyprus decided to follow rather than the Japanese or Scandinavian systems which would have resulted in most of us returning to a bicycle or if we were wealthy, a donkey!
Good Luck (check them tyres) and Never Ever argue with the Tester
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