DMT Wants Your Car Inspected Every 3 Months or 5,000km — Who Pays for That?

The Department of Motor Traffic says it wants every vehicle checked by an authorised garage every 5,000km or three months, whichever comes first, on top of the existing emission test. The idea surfaced after a heavy vehicle with brake failure caused a fatal crash in Akurana, and DMT Commissioner General Thushara Fernando says it's still under legal review for an early 2027 start. Nobody's confirmed yet if it covers only buses and lorries or every private car too, and there's no word on cost. Supporters say Sri Lanka's roads are full of vehicles running on worn brakes and bald tyres that nobody catches until something snaps, and a cheap routine check could have stopped that one crash alone. Critics say three-monthly garage visits on top of the emission test, insurance and the revenue licence is just another queue, another fee, and another excuse for a garage to fail you until you pay for 'repairs' you didn't need. If this lands on private cars too, would you trust the garage doing the check, or would it just become another racket like some already say the emission test is? What should it cost, and who should actually run it? ඔයාගේ කාරයට මාස 3කට සැරයක් fitness test එකක් ආවොත්, ඒක ගැන මොකද හිතන්නේ?