Driving without MOT & Tax

[Timewaster]

I have a question.

 

Using our favorite "driving to a pre booked Mot" clause is all well and good and I believe you can also drive to pre arranged Mot repairs.

 

Question is: Can you drive to a pre arranged repair before you have had an Mot test. Does it need to have failed first?

 

I know the car will fail a test (crunchy sill) but I don't want a failure on corrosion to be recorded against the car.

[Cavcraft]

You have to drive to a pre-booked MOT and then allowed to drive it home or a repair garage. You could risk driving it somewhere first, but I doubt it's 'legal'

[Kiltox]

Not unless you are using trade plates (which are not normally a substitute for a MOT, just tax, but make provision for road testing / repairing a car ready for a MOT)

[strangeangel]

Question is: Can you drive to a pre arranged repair before you have had an Mot test. Does it need to have failed first?

 

 

This would suggest that it needs to have failed first.

[Faker]

Nope... can't drive a car with no mot unless it's to or from a test centre for a pre-bookend test.

[John F]

Timewaster, on 13 May 2016 - 6:43 PM, said:

I have a question.

 

Using our favorite "driving to a pre booked Mot" clause is all well and good and I believe you can also drive to pre arranged Mot repairs.

 

Question is: Can you drive to a pre arranged repair before you have had an Mot test. Does it need to have failed first?

 

I know the car will fail a test (crunchy sill) but I don't want a failure on corrosion to be recorded against the car.

 

Time to buy yourself a MIG then

[Timewaster]

Time to borrow a trailer.

 

 

The car deserves better than my pigeon shit efforts!

[Kiltox]

Where in the country are you?

[Timewaster]

Cambridgeshire.

 

Actually my friendly local garage has a flat bed recovery truck and he would shift it for a drink or six.

[Kiltox]

If you were closer I'd help out with moving it but that plan sounds good!

[Tamworthbay]

But the link says pre existing faults, could that include an advisory from last years test that would now fail. That is how I have always read it anyway.

[Guest bangerfan101]

Pre existing fault been some clumsy cunts put the trolly jack thru the crispest bit of sill instead of something more substantial?

[Tickman]

I am sure it wouldn't be the first car to 'breakdown' (outside the place of fixing) on the way to it's MOT!

[Tamworthbay]

Pre existing fault been some clumsy cunts put the trolly jack thru the crispest bit of sill instead of something more substantial?

have a look for an advisory from the last couple of years, headlights or windscreen wipers are perfect.

[Guest bangerfan101]

Insufficient screen wash advisory from 2 years ago sir?

 

No that's just wanking induced catteracts officer.

[garbaldy]

Does it not say you can drive to and from an Mot and to and from a pre aranged place of Mot work,

Pretty sure it doesn't say it has to fail a test first though,

As long as it's insured and you have a pre booked appointment for Mot work or booked mot I can't see it being to much of a problem, unless you meet the world's most awkward copper.

[DodgyBastard]

As above, insure it and book it in for a test then drive it to wherever it needs to go. I've done it on numerous occasions. The last occasion was in a 309 that wasn't mine that broke down an hour from home, I called the AA who came out and fixed it but no doubt I'd have been able to get a tow home if it had come to it.

[Captain Furious]

Not that I would ever condone driving *illeagully* and I haven't knowingly ever done so, but as long as you have insurance then no MOT is a fairly paltry fine, if you get pulled by a copper, explain the situation and don't come across a complete bell, they'll likely let you on your way anyway

[nigel bickle]

Sadly,they won't.

 

Down south, they are allowed discretion for the first month, or in exceptional circumstances ( I got a tug 2 miles from the ferry port, coming back for a funeral, in a French legal car).

 

However, if it looks sound,and your attitude is reasonable,it's just a fine, currently£100.

Pain in the ass, but not the end of the world.

[HillmanImp]

I used to have a link to the page that had this piece of legislation on so that if I ever got pulled over I could show the policeman it.

 

However, recently I had to drive the Jag to Leeds to get some codes read and couldn't find the link anymore.

 

What I did find though is the following link on the gov.uk website.

 

https://www.gov.uk/sorn-statutory-off-road-notification/overview

 

"You can only drive a vehicle with a SORN on a public road to go to or from a pre-booked MOT or other testing appointment. You face court prosecution and a fine of up to £2,500 if you use it on the road for any other reason."

 

Not as clear as it used to be as I agree it used to say you could take it to a designated place of repair after an MOT. But I am not sure that this is the case anymore as I can't find anything about it.

 

I had not had the MOT yet but rang up and booked it in for a code reading but asked for them to say it was booked in for an emissions test if I needed to call them.

[TRW]

I can't see it being to much of a problem, unless you meet the world's most awkward copper.

 

Just like I did, here -

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/22252-the-grumpy-old-manpedant-post-feel-free-to-add/?p=912263

 

I would just trailer it. Save getting a load of arsehole from the Law.

[Timewaster]

Just like I did, here -

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/22252-the-grumpy-old-manpedant-post-feel-free-to-add/?p=912263

 

I would just trailer it. Save getting a load of arsehole from the Law.

Ouch! I think I'll give this idea a swerve and tempt my mate with a few pictures of the Queen to shift it for me.