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Speaker 1: Everyone hates getting a warrant of fitness, don't you, So

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Speaker 1: why is anyone going to say that spacing them out

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Speaker 1: is not a good idea? Buy a new car. You

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Speaker 1: can keep your first warrant of fitness for four years.

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Speaker 1: Cars age between four and ten years that only need

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Speaker 1: to take every two years. This is the government's proposals. Currently,

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Speaker 1: all vehicles registered after the year two thousand you need

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Speaker 1: a yearly WAFT. Terry Collins is Principal Policy advisor at

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Speaker 1: AA and joins me this morning. Hey Terry, Yeah, good morning, right,

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Speaker 1: any problems with this.

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Speaker 2: Well, and we surveyed our members and unfortunately what they

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Speaker 2: said to us is a third of a support, a

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Speaker 2: third of pose, and a third are unsure. So it

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Speaker 2: leaves us kind of wondering what having a look here,

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Speaker 2: I know, and I think that's to do with perhaps

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Speaker 2: some of those age or the length of time that

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Speaker 2: the warrants men done. What we know is about forty

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Speaker 2: percent of the vehicle's fail the warrant when it gets

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Speaker 2: inspected for the first time. And I think with the

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Speaker 2: shorter periods and this is the work that we have

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Speaker 2: to do further work on is that a lot of

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Speaker 2: people go oh, I get more warrant on every six months.

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Speaker 2: Looks like the times are going out the warrants next month.

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Speaker 2: I wait till you get the warrant so I can

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Speaker 2: extend my warrant period out with the good tires as

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Speaker 2: long as possible. If we move to a year, people

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Speaker 2: may go, well, it's seven months there before I get

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Speaker 2: my world. I'd better put those tires on now instead

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Speaker 2: of waiting, because they'll be completely baled when they're done.

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Speaker 2: So we've got a work around those psychological triggers of

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Speaker 2: the ages and what they will do. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: in my own personal circumstances, I've got a ninety seven motorcycle.

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Speaker 2: I've got every six months, how do you ride it

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Speaker 2: over winter? I put the most expensive tires and look

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Speaker 2: after it. You think it just seems crazy to do

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Speaker 2: it every six months. But as I said, we've just

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Speaker 2: got to work out because of that high failure raid

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Speaker 2: on first expections about what this age difference is going

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Do we basically are we saying we kind of need

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Speaker 1: the reminder of it almost we do.

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Speaker 2: And what's coming through as our members as they do

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Speaker 2: like to have the reminder, and they do like the

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Speaker 2: have of all things paper and the digital one. They

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Speaker 2: come to rely upon looking up in the window, seeing

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Speaker 2: when it's due and then arrange accordingly with it. We

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Speaker 2: do know with the newer vehicles they've got service plans,

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Speaker 2: so they're regularly going in every fifteen thousand kilometers or

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Speaker 2: something like that and getting inspected. So the road worthy

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Speaker 2: is a strong case for longer period we.

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Speaker 1: Can They completely unrelated and very quickly in the UK

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Speaker 1: used today on the show, we were talking about headlights

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Speaker 1: have gone led and the UK government's investigating them because

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Speaker 1: they're too bright for people. It's dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any Yeah, we're getting that. There's a

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Speaker 2: number of studies done on it. What happens and particularly

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Speaker 2: as you age, your ability to handle the light changes.

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Speaker 2: And two things have happened. One is we've made it

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Speaker 2: brighter LEDs and we've put them in taller vehicles our

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Speaker 2: SUV so we've moved away from the big sedan to

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Speaker 2: the taller suv. So we've elevated the lights and.

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Speaker 1: We've made we need do we need to do something?

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Speaker 2: Well, Look, we follow international standards and we go to lighting.

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Speaker 2: So I think the UK looking at it, they're a

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Speaker 2: major car manufacturer. Just like the Japanese and the Americans,

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Speaker 2: everybody's looking at the actual feature right now. And the

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Speaker 2: bright lights, well they're annoying. Here's the kicking they are.

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Speaker 2: But they work really well for you if you're driving.

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Speaker 2: They just don't work very well for other people who

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Speaker 2: are also on the road. So I said, we've got

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Speaker 2: to get somewhere in the middle, which is.

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Speaker 1: A bit of a problem. Terry, appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Terry Collins, Principal Policy Advisor for the AA.

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