Also been like that for many years in N Ireland, also cars tested at dedicated, super size, high tech MOT centres and not garages. You might get those as well.
God forbit, because now its possible to get a sensible pragmatic approach from a garage. For example, I removed the pillion seat on my bike at day 1 because SWMBO wont ride on this bike. But since the bike still has its pillion footpegs on, that would be an MoT failure with an officious bureaucratic government station. As it is my garage is hot on real safety issues but flexible on the pen pusher ones.
