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drmike:
I think the greatest worry is when they start hooking up the measuring devices to the MOT computer so that the tester can't apply any discretion to the process.

There must be loads of times a tester has made a judgement based on common sense about older vehicles that are borderline fails but only go out for shows or competition and are clearly not dangerous.

Borderline smoky diesels will now either fail or pass.

It's hard to argue that the reason for the fail shouldn't be known but this sort of big brother stuff will take a lot of classic cars off the road for no good purpose.

It will also probably make the test far more expensive and put a load of smaller MOT testers out of business. This won't bother politicians and senior civil servants as they don't live in the same world as the rest of us.

I know it's only change and that I'm getting older but the stealing away of discretion from all and sundry is very depressing.

Mike

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