[steamship]

Originally Posted by steamship

It certainly is, and my opinion of them still stands. On those screenshots I posted before, there is one site greyed out, Hydebank.

Sunday morning rant - Posted this comment back in May about the state of the MOT system here in NI. Was chatting to my brother the other night, and he told me there were more issues with Hydebank. After some searching, it turns out that the DVA, who 'run' (and I use that term very loosely) the MOT centres, are trying to terminate the contract with the suppliers of the testing equipment and software because of numerous issues. It appears this is now the second time they've tried to do this, the first back in 2022, which the supplier successfully got overturned in court. The DVA have now put out a new tender which will take 3-4 months, and with another court case looming, it will extend the eventual opening ever further down the line.

If that isn't bad enough, the mainstream media still believe that MOT appointments are only around 60 days from booking them. If you look at my previous screenshots from the end of May, the appointments were between 5 and 6 'months'. My brother's car MOT expired back in April. His booking is for December. The whole thing is a mockery, and just shows how useless government agencies are at running things. NI has 15 test locations, whereas the rest of GB has over 23,000!