What can / can't you do if your vehicle fails it's MOT?

[Justbrad]

You are allowed to drive a vehicle to and from an MOT testing center or a garage where you are having MOT work done.

[KERRSURF]

It's all because of these damn computerwhatsit thingys!

In the good old days, before the MOT stations were linked to vehicle database that the police can instantly access you could have gotten away with your old/current MOT but not now, if it gets tested and fails this is recorded for plod to see.

[BUSHWHACKER]

You asked.......
"If I drive to an MOT test centre and my vehicle fails as far as I know my car is no longer road legal and the fail negates any time left I had on my old MOT and so repairs need to take place before I can use it again (not sure if I can still drive home or not??)."


So where do you think all these vehicles that fail the MOT would be stored until they're repaired???

An MOT is technically, only valid on the day it's issued, mainly due to the reason pointed out by Scorpion.

You say that your friend said.......
"that if her MOT runs out then she can still drive around until the end of the original MOT period, in this case, the end of this month."

Which is two statements in one if you read it.
The vehicle can be driven up to the expiry date, NOT 'til the end of that month that the date falls into!

The answer is......
The vehicle can be driven up to midnight of the expiry date on the current MOT certificate.


This warranted a FFS!!! because the answer is feckin' obvious!!!!

[lord_flashart]

You asked.......
"If I drive to an MOT test centre and my vehicle fails as far as I know my car is no longer road legal and the fail negates any time left I had on my old MOT and so repairs need to take place before I can use it again (not sure if I can still drive home or not??)."


So where do you think all these vehicles that fail the MOT would be stored until they're repaired???

An MOT is technically, only valid on the day it's issued, mainly due to the reason pointed out by Scorpion.

You say that your friend said.......
"that if her MOT runs out then she can still drive around until the end of the original MOT period, in this case, the end of this month."

Which is two statements in one if you read it.
The vehicle can be driven up to the expiry date, NOT 'til the end of that month that the date falls into!

The answer is......
The vehicle can be driven up to midnight of the expiry date on the current MOT certificate.


This warranted a FFS!!! because the answer is feckin' obvious!!!!

The MOT is valid up until the end of the month as the end of the month is when her MOT is up so, in this instance, it is until the end of the month, hence why I said " the end of the month"!
It's not my fault you assumed I meant the end of the month irrespective of the day within that month the MOT was done.

[BUSHWHACKER]

The MOT is valid up until the end of the month as the end of the month is when her MOT is up so, in this instance, it is until the end of the month, hence why I said " the end of the month"!
It's not my fault you assumed I meant the end of the month irrespective of the day within that month the MOT was done.

Use the 'preview post' button in future then!

[Maverick]

According to my MOT man, whos been doing it for as long as I can remember MOTing trucks.
As soon as it fails the MOT it has failed, any period outstanding on the previous ticket isn't valid unless you then get it to pass the MOT.

At the point of failure you are permited to drive the vehicle to and from a prebooked place where the work is being carried out, or a prebooked place where the MOT retest is being carried out. The vehicle must however be in a reasonably roadworthy condition, i.e. not a deathtrap.

Now I admit he's an old boy who did laughing suggest retirement when I was MOTing my sisters truck today, but I trust his judgement and information.

[Justbrad]

At the point of failure you are permited to drive the vehicle to and from a prebooked place where the work is being carried out, or a prebooked place where the MOT retest is being carried out. The vehicle must however be in a reasonably roadworthy condition, i.e. not a deathtrap.

Thats bascily what I said

[Bogus]

The mot testing station has to by law have the vehicle registration so if you get pulled over either to or from a test then the police can then contact the testing station direct to make sure you are going or have been for a mot.It does not matter if the vehicle has passed or failed, posted by Stormforce.

Surely it does, if the vehicle passes you will have a crispy new cert to show the doughnut munchers, so if it passes, where you have been or are going is irrelevant, and can I also assume that if you are taking a vehicle which has a current MOT for renewal, the garage has no need to know the registration up front, surely that only applies if you are taking a vehicle with no current MOT

I drove around in my merc for a couple of months fairly recently with no MOT as hadnt noticed/remembered it was expired until I went to renew the VED. I never got pulled once.

Bogus

[Maverick]

Thats bascily what I said

Yep, I just thought I'd repeat myself from post 7. It all ups the post count a bit.
There's very little postwhoring here nowadays.

[TonyN]

I understood what you ment, its simple FFS...



You asked if you take car in for a MOT early, and it fails, can you still use it till the end of the current MOT, or has it failed and therefore written off your current MOT.

The answer 'seems' to be no, its failed and officially thats what will come up on computer, and should be off the road till fixed (apart from going to and from garage and MOT station), even if you had time left on MOT.

The moral is, don't be organised, leave it till the last minute.

[Shalershasker]

My truck was due it’s first mot last month (first for me anyway), now I took it to a Toyota dealership for this one and asked them to be extremely stricked with it as I wanted to know anything and everything that may need sorting either now or in the near future, it failed on an excessively corroded brake pipe and discoloured rear sidelight bulbs due to heat turning the red colour to a slight orange plus it had four advisories, the brake pipe was the only thing I didn’t have the knowledge to fix and was going to take nine days to come in from Japan, this immediately begged your question, can I drive it home to do the other repairs and bring it back in nine days for the brake pipe bearing in mind it’s failed, they said I can drive it to anywhere where I was going to carry out the mot repairs (they didn’t say as much but I got the feeling this maybe mileage dependant), then I could bring it back for the mot. The brake pipe they said would be fine for now but if left untouched would stand a chance of “going pop” for want of better words.
As Vince and others have said, I think you have to be realistic about this, you don’t have to have the repairs carried out where you have it mot’d so you need to get to somewhere where the repairs can be done, it would be somewhat mad to have the vehicle sat on the back of a lorry to do this if the only failure was a bulb for instance and most plod recognise this fact.

[che2318]

from the government website..


Motoring Your MOT certificate Your MOT certificate confirms that your vehicle, at the time of its test, without dismantling it, met the minimum acceptable environmental and road safety standards required by law. It doesn’t mean the vehicle is roadworthy for the life of the certificate and isn’t a substitute for regular maintenance.
Your MOT test record
When your vehicle is tested at a testing station your test record will be entered on to a secure central database. You’ll then be given either an A4 size MOT (pass) certificate or notification of failure. The certificate is your receipt for the MOT test and shows the information that’s held on the database.

The MOT certificate only relates to the condition of testable items at the time of the test and should not be regarded as:

evidence of their condition at any other time
evidence of the general mechanical condition of the vehicle
evidence that the vehicle fully complies with all aspects of the law on vehicle construction and use
The certificate is no longer proof of an MOT and shouldn’t be relied on as such. Only the computer record can prove a vehicle has a valid MOT. You’ll also be given an Advisory Notice for any recommended repairs for the vehicle at the time of the test.

How to check the MOT on your vehicle Opens new window When you can MOT your vehicle
You can renew your MOT up to one month before it expires without affecting your annual expiry date. You can find out when the earliest date to MOT your vehicle is by checking the front of the pass certificate.
Why you need an MOT certificate
It is generally an offence to use on a public road, a vehicle of testable age that doesn’t have a current test certificate, except when:

taking it to a test station for an MOT test booked in advance
bringing it away from a test station after it has failed the MOT test, to a place of repair
taking it to a place, by previous arrangement, where problems that caused the vehicle to fail its MOT test, can be repaired
bringing it away from a place where the problems with the vehicle have been repaired
Even in the above circumstances you may still be prosecuted for driving an unroadworthy vehicle if it doesn’t comply with various regulations affecting its construction and use. Your car insurance may also be invalid.

The police can ask to see an MOT certificate for a vehicle that needs to have one. They also have access to the computerised records of MOT test results and can tell if the MOT certificate for your vehicle has expired.

It is your responsibility as the vehicle owner to ensure that the due MOT test is carried out in time. You can use the peel off reminder sticker on the front of the certificate and put it in a place where you’ll be reminded of the expiry date. A place like the sun visor or the back of the tax disc holder facing inside the vehicle.

The penalty for driving a vehicle on the road with an expired MOT certificate is a fixed penalty notice from the police, currently £60, or a court fine up to a maximum of a £1,000.

[che2318]

bit different than if your gonna just ignore the MOT failure and carrying on driving to work etc untill the exisiting one runs out as your knowingly driving a car that has failed to be roadworthy...

and if you crash......injure someone...or even kill someone...then your in the shit.


and that someone could be family members, children...etc




so id tell your lady friend Lord that she shouldnt just 'drive around'.

unless of course that the MOT failure was due to the terrible pink paint work!!

[stormforce]

The mot testing station has to by law have the vehicle registration so if you get pulled over either to or from a test then the police can then contact the testing station direct to make sure you are going or have been for a mot.It does not matter if the vehicle has passed or failed, posted by Stormforce.

Surely it does, if the vehicle passes you will have a crispy new cert to show the doughnut munchers, so if it passes, where you have been or are going is irrelevant, and can I also assume that if you are taking a vehicle which has a current MOT for renewal, the garage has no need to know the registration up front, surely that only applies if you are taking a vehicle with no current MOT

I drove around in my merc for a couple of months fairly recently with no MOT as hadnt noticed/remembered it was expired until I went to renew the VED. I never got pulled once.

Bogus

Sorry Bogus yes i should of said only if the vehicle has no mot at all.

I will see if i can get something from the mot rule book thing and get back and post it here