Im such a cnut

[Philyc]

After replying to a thread here about where to get an mot i decided to double check mine as i knew/thought it was due end of this month.

 

Turns out it ran out at the end of jan. Ive driven to st andrews, glasgow, durham and back to ipswich on seperate journeys since it ran out.

 

Better yet it is my one form of transport to get to a 4 week course near salisbury (leaving on sunday) so am dropping it at my preferred garage tomorrow morning.... fingers crossed theres nothing wrong with the fiesta (no advisories last time).

 

Feel like such a baffoon.

 

Anyone done anything similar?

[Guest Hooli]

Forgot for six months on a car one time & the same on a bike. As I keep my stuff working it's never stuck me as important.

[Hertz]

Plenty I'm sure.

 

My dad happily sent me on my way to my driving test without an MOT or Tax! I failed before I started the engine....

[hairnet]

had that on the bike last summer

 

was due 1st mot but i got the months the wrong way round

 

so was out by just under 4 weeks

 

id been to ireland twice and newcastle

[Philyc]

Forgot for six months on a car one time & the same on a bike. As I keep my stuff working it's never stuck me as important.

Makes me feel better about my blunder. Id like to think that if the car was unsafe id know about it!

 

Anyone know what the fine is for driving sans mot?

[Richard]

My friend* might have sat his driving test in a car he wasn't insured to drive.

[Guest Hooli]

Upto £1,000 fine & no points.

[Philyc]

Upto £1,000 fine & no points.

Christ on a bike

[chodweaver]

Home from college for the summer, ~1985, borrowed Mum's Metro 1.3S for most of the summer break, probably putting a thousand miles or more on it. She tells me once I've gone back to college that she forgot to add me onto the insurance... "Still, never mind!" she said

[Guest Hooli]

Christ on a bike

Normally £60 though I believe.

[strangeangel]

Forgot for six months on a car one time & the same on a bike. As I keep my stuff working it's never stuck me as important.

 

Our Lass once forgot for nine months. It struck her as important because the old bill caught her.

 

The fine wasn't a fine as such, but a fixed penalty thing of £100. No points.

[Guest Hooli]

That's what reminded me about the car. I got awarded a '7 day wonder' (remember them?) and found out. I got the thing MOT'd and it passed then I turned up at a the station to explain. Got a letter saying don't do it again.

[HillmanImp]

I do this all the time. I think I'm right though when I say that driving a car with no MOT that is potentially dangerous and unfit to be on the road is not a criminal offence, unlike not taxing a car and putting money in the governments coffers.

 

Although I might have read that wrong or the person who wrote it might have made it up. 

 

*edited* Taking to Taxing

[Guest Hooli]

All cars are potentially dangerous & unroadworthy.

 

You are correct that no MOT isn't criminal, but an unroadworthy (MOT'd or not) car is.

[Eddie Honda]

Normally £60 though I believe.

When is this myth going to die? (Not personally having a go, but someone else mentioned it recently)

 

£100 and has been for about 4 years.

[Guest Hooli]

I knew speeding had gone up, I didn't know that.

[Eddie Honda]

Yeah, when speeding went up from 60 to 100, the robbin' cunts put the non-endorsables up from 30 to 100 too.

 

Is it 200 for a moby now?

[beko1987]

Xm was out for a month before I thought to check! I only started to worry once I noticed... And was up and down the m40 every day!

[Craig the Princess]

Is it 200 for a moby now?

And six points

[UltraWomble]

 

Is it 200 for a moby now?

Sweet Jesus

[red5]

Yep - done that.

 

As the youngest in the garage I had the responsibility* of going to the local Post Office to tax the sales cars etc. Went to tax mine at same time to find out that the MOT was up 2 weeks before - what made it worse was I was a newly-qualified MOT tester...mucho red face.

 

Turns out after 20 odd years in the trade that it's far more common than you'd think.

[Junkman]

MoT stinks.

[nisfan]

Back before everything was on the "database" i drove about for a year without one and only got one so i could tax the car, not worth it nowadays but im still guilty for it

[Station]

I do believe I was still drunk for my driving test as I got in at 4am and my test was at 9am. I passed though.

Never knowingly driven without an MOT I think.

[Philyc]

The little fiesta passed thanK god. Advisory was front offside shock a little spongy... might get the mrs convinced that i need to upgrade all my suspension from stock.

 

The bloke there seemed impressed at how tidy it was. Love little local garages

[xtriple]

We had a van at work that was about 360 days out of MOT. All our vans were pretty new and did little mileage and maintained to the highest standards... after I took over as transport boss (along with several other more arduous duties) and that Motless van was the catalyst to me getting the gig... the bosses son was in charge previously!

[PhilA]

I still think stickers and labels and such are a good idea. The removal of the whole tax disc thing was moronic. We get 2 stickers here. One on the plate to show is paid up and one in the front screen to show it's been tested.

 

If it's a case that you get a fine for driving it the second it expires, yes. Something on the vehicle helps, both the driver to remember and those who are doing their job to catch criminals* who flaunt the law...

 

Anyhow. This one expired in October of last year, took it in for test in January. Got a different color sticker stuck over the crack in the windscreen. Go figure.

 

Phil

[twosmoke300]

No customers car escapes my workshop without a service / mot reminder ( if it's been in for mot or service ) sticker .

Customers still ignore them tho 😡

[Chris2cv]

My dad bought a ne?w car last year and was happily driving it for about 6 weeks when he went online to check when the tax was due on his other car. Then discovered that the garage had forgotten to tax his new car! They were very apologetic, but he had done nearly 2,000 miles and we are told that there are cameras everywhere - including one half a mile from his house - but he only found out because he checked! Was he just lucky?

 

 My 2cv regularly goes out of MOT due to lack of time and sometimes money, but never goes on the road unless it is on route to an MOT in those cases. I was annoyed a few years ago, when the tax ran up and I received a fine through the post. I should have checked and later found a reminder, but at the time I was literally coming in from work, going straight to the hospital to see my mum and then home to bed. For a month. Yes I should have checked, but this seemed very unfair when the car hadn't been near the road for more than 2 months anyway.  Must remember put sorn on it before end of month. 

[PhilA]

No customers car escapes my workshop without a service / mot reminder ( if it's been in for mot or service ) sticker .

Customers still ignore them tho

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Phil