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MOT Rule Change: LED Headlight Bulbs Can Now Pass — If They Have the Sticker

Close-up of a car headlight — LED replacement bulbs in halogen headlamps can now pass the MOT under DVSA's new rules

If you’ve ever swapped the dull yellow halogen bulbs in your headlights for bright white LEDs, you probably know what happened at your next MOT: an instant fail. For years the rule was brutally simple — an LED bulb inside a housing built for halogen light was treated as an incompatible light source, and the … Read more

MOT Price Cap Stays at £54.85 — But Drivers Already Pay £111

MOT tester inspecting a car on a lift in a garage

The industry roundtable on 21 October — the IMI hosting, the DVSA at the table, trade associations and road-safety groups in the room — came and went without producing anything on the record. The meeting was the industry’s big set-piece: garage economics, EV mileage checks and the cost of testing modern cars were all on … Read more