No T&T, but booked in for a test - legality

[skoda_norman]

How will the AA know whether it has MOT or not though? For my sins I've used the AA several times and not once have they asked about whether it is MOT'd or not. 

At which point, plate swappage might be the answer  

[Bobthebeard]

Afternoon.

I'm in the process of attaining an old car and need some advice on technicalities. I reckon this is a good place to ask.

The car in question doesn't have tax and test but does run and drive. I'd like to take the car to a specific (specialist) test centre some 60 miles (across London) away from where the car is now. I would argue that it is okay as I am taking it to a specialist.

If stopped, would this argument wash? Technically I wouldn't be breaking the law but I should imagine it comes down to the individual officer? Also, should they decide I am breaking the law, what are the penalties? Obviously I'd have insured the car.

Thoughts, advice and experience welcomed.

Thanks.

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Back to the original question....

You will be fine unless it is a mobile ruin.

[castros_bro]

2 pages and nobody has said it...

 

The one problem you have is recovery cover

 

If you break down, RAC/AA etc wont pick you up

 

But as above otherwise,I've done the pre booked mot for 100 miles with no problems

 

A couple of weeks ago I was given a Renny Trafic which hadn't moved for 2 years, en route to a pre-booked MOT 35 miles away it expired on a A329(M) ( all the coolant leaked into the diff housing). Van was covered in green verdigris and rotting vegetation as it expired before going in the Bracknell Sainsburys jet wash.   Yon AA bloke relayed it from the motorway without a prob.

[Noel Tidybeard]

As long as the car in question is an ex-Mount Prospect Police 1974 Dodge Monaco, WCPGW...

 

So far, I haven't done this for a cross country EPIK collection thread, but it once happened, that the cops filled their car up at the pump next to the one where I made the obligatory photo of my recent untaxed and unMoTed acquisition, and they didn't as much as blink an eyelid.

I also once bought a non MoTed and untaxed car about 50 miles away, and told the seller I'll just chance to drive it home, MoT booked for the next day. It turned out that he was a cop himself, and he told me I'm not chancing anything, since what I'm doing is perfectly legal, and in case any of his colleagues have a different personal opinion (which is completely irrelevant in legal matters), he gave me his business card and told me to tell them to call him for a rather patronising lecture.

 

that made me rofl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^^^

[Pete-M]

I know for a fact that the UK policy will not work in .de and .at, where you would need temporary plates. And yes, the 'export' temporary plates can be obtained by people not having an address in those countries. They come as a package with insurance for the duration, and a nominal road tax, and can be bought online, or be picked up from any insurance broker's office. The package costs about 50 Euros.

Ah. I could do with a bit of help with .de plates. Say someone bought an unregistered car in Frankfurt, with no registration but with a Fahrzeugbrief from when the car was last on the road a long time earlier in Hamburg, but the car had travelled to Dresden where export plates were now required. The car would have to go for a TÃœV test and export plates arranged.

 

How awkward would that be?