MOT History Question

[meggersdog]

When my Discovery got written off I was given salvage but the insurance company told me the car needed another MOT before going back on the road.It's a spares car now anyway so irrelevent.If you buy from Copart there are never any docs with a cat C so they have to be applied for.This would put another owner on the V5 so first registered by the supplying dealer,gets written off by first real owner then repairer registers giving three owners in the first year.

One of my customers buys a lot from Copart and now there is no vic check when the V5 arrives he checks online and if it's still got loads of test I print a duplicate certificate.Never had an issue with new keepers taxing.

If the car is a cat C then the V5 will state when the vic check was carried out.A cat D doesn't need a vic check so nothing in the special notes section.

[Hendry]

Car was HPI checked when bought from the dealers so definitely not an insurance write off, I also happen to know for a fact from seeing paperwork for the car that they gave the previous owner £8750 trade in price for the car, not a chance a main dealer would've given that much for a declared write off 3 year old Mondeo 1.6 diesel with over 50k on the clock I'd have thought.

 

The reg beginning BN63 would mean first registered in Birmingham, which would mean it was originally sold by Bristol Street Motors Birmingham dealership, which I know from working in the hire car industry supplied a lot of fleets, so could've been ex rental, could've been a pre reg or dealer demo or salesmans car, and with it being Titanium X Business Edition from what I've read online was aimed at company car drivers and it seems to suggest that that model wasn't available to private buyers when new. It has had paint before as there's repairs if you look for them but they seem to be localised smart repairs,

 

Might send away a DVLA V888 form and get copies of all the paperwork they have for the car and see if that provides any clues.

[DodgeRover]

It's a very grey area around MOT'ing of writeoffs.

I always believed it to be necessary, I then bought a Cat D and had it MOT'ed. Chatting to the tester as he wrote it up, I mentioned I had 8 months left on the certificate that was in the car but it was a writeoff and called me an idiot. He seemed convinced the MOT paperwork I had from pre-crash was still valid.

 

Can any of our resident testers confirm? Any way of tapping in the reg of a recent writeoff to the MOT computer to check?

AFAIK There's no way for the MOT to be cancelled short of doing a prohibition notice so yes it's still valid, most have expired by the time a car has gone through the insurance and been repaired. Pre everything being viewable on the internet you would almost never get any history or mot certificates with a write off so you had to get one done anyway

[Pillock]

Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme...

 

It's the ticket the police give you where you have 14 days to get your car fixed and certified by an MoT station or face court action.

If they're going to give out Defect Notices for scratches, we're all fucked.