MOT Equipment Calibration & Maintenance Scheduling

No.

MOT Juice does not conduct any calibration services on your equipment, but we do supply a tool for you to log all your calibration records; store calibration documents, certificates and operation manuals online; log defect & maintenance records and track when your MOT equipment is next due for calibration.

Yes. As detailed in Appendix 2 section 4 of the MOT Testing Guide, “all testing equipment must be kept in good order and measuring apparatus must be calibrated regularly in accordance with DVSA’s requirements. In all cases calibration records must be kept for a minimum of two years“.

You must therefore have a facility to help you store your calibration documents for at least 2 years, and be able to provide the DVSA Vehicle Examiner with copies of calibration records when asked.

Yes.

The DVSA are happy for your calibration records to be kept in a digital format, providing they are readily retrievable. As per Appendix 2 section 5 of the MOT Testing Guide, “Calibration records may be retained digitally or as a hardcopy”. Therefore a VE cannot punish you simply for opting to retain your documents in an electronic format. They can punish you for not retaining the required documents dating as far back as is required.

Keeping your calibration records stored digitally provides a great advantage of being able to easily obtain a copy of your certificates without needing to contact the calibration company as well as giving access to all testing staff without giving them a key to the filing cabinet.

Yes.

With MOT Juice, you can upload a copy of your equipment operating instructions to your account so that you can easily access the manual without having to keep a hard copy on-site.

Keeping your equipment manuals stored in your MOT Juice account also allows you to comply with the DVSA requirements that state you must have the operating instructions available for pieces of your MOT equipment.

As detailed in Section D of the MOT Testing Guide, it is a DVSA requirement that you have access to the operating instructions for all your MOT equipment readily available – whether that be printed or electronic.

You can generally find your equipment manuals online with a quick Google Search, but in most cases this can be a fairly lengthy process.

Here at MOT Juice, we’re all about making your lives easier, so we’ve put together a library of MOT equipment manuals so that you an easily and quickly find exactly what you need, to then download and keep securely. Even if we don’t have it, you can send us a request and we’ll do all the leg work to find the equipment manual(s) you need.

You can browse our library of equipment manuals here.