Question follow-through · 74557
Motor Vehicles: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to standardise the measure of vehicle sound testing in MOTs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to standardise the measure of vehicle sound testing in MOTs.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
Excessive exhaust noise is currently tested with a subjective assessment at the MOT in which the tester can fail the vehicle if they believe it is producing excessive noise for the vehicle model. The MOT standard for exhaust noise requires that the noise ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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