Another MOT question

[jon]

Yup. It used to be the case that the old ticket still covered you as it was valid, thats why certain friendly mot stations would turn a blind eye to overly loud exhausts etc... if you got pulled on the way home you could produce your old mot and plod would not know that the center had just passed a noisey exhaust (if you fitted the noisey can 'as soon as you got home from the mot' then the tester wouldnt get in trouble). A few years ago the system went 'live' though and instead of the ticket and records only displaying the date of the test, the computer system now shows the exact time so now if you get stopped leaving the mot center with a loud can a pnc check will flag up the new mot time. This was partly done to catch out dodgy mot centers so they could see exactly what time the mot was issued and not be told that it "wasnt like that when I tested it". Some places are still willing to risk passing overly loud cans etc (its down to the testers discretion) if you are willing to say you fitted them when you got home, but its not unheard of for the police to sit just down the road if they have reason to suspect a dodgy mot tester.

(I have a friend thats an ex-mechanic and mot tester)