I took the Jeep for test today - my examiner who I've known for many years says this was debated over a 2 year period by the previous government, who concluded that the system of MOTs we had was the best of the lot, and that no useful purpose would be served by changing it. Case closed.
Now someone in the new government has raised the issue again, perhaps thinking it would be a vote-catcher? (with the view that motorists might think it will save them some money - think harder please), and so we may well start the exercise all over again.
No doubt there are sound arguments for both systems, but if anyone thinks a 2 year MOT would be better, ponder over just the one example he gave me of a certain breed of modern car and van-derivative thereof which has steering/suspension ball joints which consistently last only 25,000 miles before they are ready to pop off. How many of them would fail between extended tests?
Whatever happened to that motto 'If it ain't broke don't fix it'? Makes you wonder :yawn: