MOT Question

[jims-terrano]

Was talking things through with a friend today and we got on about when your car fails the MOT but you still have a current MOT.

Example: A car is not due for MOT until say July but you take it in now (April). If it fails does it then mean that you don't have an MOT any longer?
Do you still have an MOT due to the current one that expires in July? or You still have MOT but are deemed to be driving an unroadworthy car?

 

[firebobby]

To be honest, I wouldn't take a vehicle for MOT until a month before it's needed , as I see it, The old MOT should sill be OK, not sure if this is correct though :nenau

 

[rustic]

To be honest, I wouldn't take a vehicle for MOT until a month before it's needed , as I see it, The old MOT should sill be OK, not sure if this is correct though :nenau

Since they are now electronic, the failed MOT shows an unroadworthy vehicle and can be picked up soon after the failure by the Police, on their automatic NPR system.

You no longer have a valid MOT and all the issues that go with that.
Penalty points, so insurance may not be valid, so driving without insurance too, more points, insurance could increase due to penalty points.

As far as I am aware, you can make one journey to a pre booked MOT appointment if you have no MOT, BUT it should be local to you, you can't book one 100 miles away.:doh
You can drive straight home from a failed MOT provided that the garage haven't advised otherwise.

I had this discussion with my local garage.

Don't take the risk.

I normally book mine a month before it's due, but this time, with the trip to Heathrow pending, I decided to leave it till we got back from Holiday, just in case the Picasso didn't play ball, and we had to invest in fuel and use the Mav.

Now due end of next week, must book it...

Hope this helps,
best regards, Rustic

 

[clivvy]

as above, its a myth that a current MOT overwrites a new MOT. If a car fails, its because its unroadworthy, and to then drive on the roads you are doing so fully in the knowledge that your car is unroadworthy - basically youre driving a car with known faults.

 

[makeitfit]

You no longer have an MOT In fact you can have no MOT at any time if an ociffer decides the car is un roadworthy.
In future, book your car in for a "Pre MOT"
They dont like it but basically they can do it on the normal test procedure but at the end the cancel the whole test due to a catstrophic failure of say the bonnet to open, or door etc. So the electronic MOT procedure cant be completed. That way you know the fail sheet but the ministry of big brothers dont :naughty

 

[jims-terrano]

Interesting that he's a plod too that I was having the discussion with and he isn't aware of this.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Funny, I was talking about this only a couple of days ago, as my car is due, but I only take it in a couple of days early, where as the person I was talking to, always book theirs in 3 weeks early, on the same thinking.

A few years ago, I was told by a Traffic policeman, that once a car fails an MOT, even in the days before the electronic ones, it was a failure, and illegal to drive, other than as said above, to and from a booked MOT. The only thing with an early MOT, is they can add the new on onto the end of the old one, if it is 3 weeks or less.

That is why garages started offering "Pre-MOT's" in the old days, to get round it, and what some would do, is then right you out a cert, if it passed, and you paid the difference, there and then.

 

[solarman216]

Interesting that he's a plod too that I was having the discussion with and he isn't aware of this.

Typically in my experience most plods do not have a clue re in depth regulations, lets be fair most are far too complicated to be understood buy joe public, and it seems common sense has gone out the window, Rick

 

[briggie]

so to recap jim mate ...... the last mot the vehicle had is the one that counts , the m.o.t, station must notify vosa whether your vehicle has passed or failed its last m.o.t.

 

[davenclaire]

No mot is a £35 fine it may have gone up by now not sure an mot only shows its road worthy at time of issue you could in theory drive out the mot center and fail a road side inspection by a traffic cop with the correct nut and bolt course under his belt if your unlucky enough a pg9 qualified officer who can remove it from the rd and cancel said not on the spot.

Or even worse a vosa inspector.

 

[frosty]

Am planning to take mine in September before the MOT is due in Dec, so am not working on it in freezing s**t weather. So this topic is going to have to be took into consideration.

 

[solarman216]

Nothing to stop you taking it to a non MOT garage and asking for a mot inspection if they flag up some fail points then you can get them sorted without any VOSA hassle, Rick

 

[jims-terrano]

so to recap jim mate ...... the last mot the vehicle had is the one that counts , the m.o.t, station must notify vosa whether your vehicle has passed or failed its last m.o.t.

That's it Pete. If your current MOT Runs out say in July and you decide to take it a few months early like now in April and it fails then you are without an MOT. Your July MOT is declared Void as soon as the tester either passes or fails it in April.

 

[wildbri]

You are allowed to take a car to a pre booked MOT if your MOT has expired, no mileage restriction just book it in to your chosen MOT centre. This is how you get your vehicle home if the mot runs out if you have been out of the country for some time. Regards. Bri.