Door-to-door services to skip the MOT

A Civil Guard arresting a Civil Guard. He and five other people have been brought to justice in what has been an operation to dismantle a network of fraud related to the ITV exams. This is what they point out in EFEwho have echoed what happened in Ondara (Valencia).

They explain in the news agency that the Civil Guard has arrested a total of six people who were dedicated to helping their clients pass the ITV exams when they were going to receive an unfavorable result. The station workers, who have been suspended from employment and salary for the moment, would be collaborating in the plot, and a Civil Guard whose position is still unknown.

According to media outlets such as The Provincesamong those arrested and investigated there are also regular customers of the ITV station who would have been benefiting from the blind eye that the workers would have turned. These workers are, for the moment, suspended from employment and salary, according to EFE.

At the moment, it is believed that the Civil Guard was aware of the operations and collaborated with the workers so that the drivers passed the ITV, in theory unfavorable, on their vehicles.

However, in the diary Levantpoint out that the work of the Civil Guard would go even further. They point out that he could have been receiving commissions in exchange for workers looking the other way and, on some occasions, he would even have offered a kind of “door-to-door” service, taking the car himself to the technical inspection station and returning it to its owner once he received the go-ahead.

This newspaper points out that the agent was discovered shortly before Christmas when his name appeared in another case. Since then the Civil Guard would have their conversations intervened, which has been key to dismantling the plot.

What happens if I don’t pass the ITV?

Do not pass the MOT because the car has serious defects It’s a mess. It’s a real big mess. Because a car that has been given a “negative” result in this mandatory test can only leave the station on a tow truck. In that case, the car must go directly to the workshop, without touching the road, and return in the same way again to the ITV station.

Something more or less similar happens when we receive an “unfavorable” result on the exam. In this case, the circulation of the vehicle is also prohibited except for the route from the ITV to the workshop and from the workshop to the ITV. In that case, the driver can take his car on the road.

Failure to comply with the requirements has such serious consequences that many drivers skip the exam. And the data says that more cars skip it the older the vehicle is because the maintenance to keep the car up to date on, for example, the emissions test may not compensate if we take the value of the vehicle as a reference.

It must be taken into account that a good part of these vehicles that stop attending the ITV are work vans who have to pass their exams every six months or mopeds low price. So much so that it is estimated that 25% of the motorcycles circulating in Spain do not comply with the ITV.

The problem is that fines are sometimes cheaper than fixing the damage on an old vehicle. And the penalties for driving a vehicle that does not comply with the ITV approval are the following:

• Circulating without ITV: 200 euros, 100 euros with prompt payment.
• Circulate with unfavorable ITV: 200 euros, 100 euros with prompt payment.
• Driving with a negative ITV: 500 euros and immobilization of the vehicle, 250 euros prompt payment.

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