Why has my car only been given an ITV for 6 months?

[finca18jrl]

Yesterday we took our 10 year old car for it's annual ITV check and when we got home we see that it has only been given 6 months until the next check requirement. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know why it's not the normal 12 months?:dontknow:

[casabonny]

After 10 years the amount of time given is reduced .Is it a Turismo, 4x4 or Mixto?

[finca18jrl]

Thanks Casabonny, I really appreciate the info. as it was bugging me. Yes, it's large "people carrier" as we would call them!

[atlantico]

my 1995 Range Rover gets a 12 month ITV, its classed as Turismo and I assumed only vehicles classed as commercial needed ITV every 6 months. I was told that some brand new car buyers opt to register as commercial , if the car falls into that category , in order to pay less purchase tax

[finca18jrl]

my 1995 Range Rover gets a 12 month ITV, its classed as Turismo and I assumed only vehicles classed as commercial needed ITV every 6 months. I was told that some brand new car buyers opt to register as commercial , if the car falls into that category , in order to pay less purchase tax

Oh well that's odd. I have no idea what they classify ours as, it's a Ford Galaxy. It certainly isn't commercial though and up until this last test we had a review every year.
Thank you for that reply though; perhaps I should go back there and ask them what's what....

[atlantico]

look on the 'log book' for its classification. Being a people carrier the original buyers may have classed it as commercial vehicle

[finca18jrl]

look on the 'log book' for its classification. Being a people carrier the original buyers may have classed it as commercial vehicle

It says "without classification"....

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Went back to the ITV station and they said that it is classified as commercial, but I should go to Ford and ask if they can re-classify it! Cannot believe that they could do that???