MoT tests for cars and light vehicles suspended

Dolores Logue: I can’t understand why inspections didn’t flag these lifts up on routine checks. Surely these are done regularly as standard. And why are most of the MOT centres only realising these faults at around the same time?

Sandra Cross: Maybe time to adopt the English system and have the garages do the test.

Alison Livingstone: It’s about time MOT centres were ditched and we were able to have the tests done as they do in the rest of the UK.

Glen Campbell: Plenty of lifts in normal garages. Time they started to carry out MOT while car is in for yearly service.

Laura Kirk: Glen Campbell, nope. That would give repair garages an incentive to fail cars for costly repairs. I like our independent system.

Louise O’Boyle:

That’s a terrible idea. I lived in Edinburgh for a good while and garages over there do MOTs. For a car that had little wrong when it went in, they somehow found £700 of repairs to be done, told me I needed new tyres when this wasn’t the case and ended up damaging part of my car so I had to take it back for more costly repairs.

Matthew Potter: Why can’t garages just do it for you and issue a certificate like they do in England?

Don’t see why it has to be purely centralised.

Laura Kirk: Matthew Potter, independence and so garages don’t stick their arm in. Compare what your local garage will tell you is wrong compared to what is actually wrong if you just let your car fail and fix what it failed on.

Paul Armstrong: Another argument for privatisation of MOT.

John Maxwell:

Can’t understand. Aren’t these German lifts supposed to be the best?

Weir Jason: Most expensive car lifts ever.

Robert Robin Kirkwood: Divert the money set aside for the Irish language and buy new lifts. This will benefit all of society.

Angela Rolfe: Robert Robin Kirkwood, society needs cash, so attack Irish. You learn nothing.