[Albion] MOT question

essbee1 · Sep 30, 2024

My MOT is out of date by two days. I was on holiday and came back to realise this. Booked in for later this
week.

Anyway, when I started driving, I was always told that you had a week or so grace on the MOT, give or take.
Lots of new drivers have told me there's a zero tolerance policy now if you haven't got an MOT (3 pts
on your licence if you're stopped). Is this really true? Does anyone have any recent experience?

Weststander · Sep 30, 2024

Doesn’t exist.
https://www.setyres.com/news-articl...riod#:~:text=No, there is no MOT grace period.

wunt be druv · Sep 30, 2024

No tolerance, you are only allowed to drive to your MOT test centre.

pb21 · Sep 30, 2024

essbee1 said:
My MOT is out of date by two days. I was on holiday and came back to realise this. Booked in for later this
week.

Anyway, when I started driving, I was always told that you had a week or so grace on the MOT, give or take.
Lots of new drivers have told me there's a zero tolerance policy now if you haven't got an MOT (3 pts
on your licence if you're stopped). Is this really true? Does anyone have any recent experience?

Don't think any technical aspect, but if you're driving to a MOT test facility, I reckon you'd be OK

Lord Charles · Sep 30, 2024

I'm no expert but was under the impression you cannot drive a car with an expired mot UNLESS you are travelling to a pre booked mot test.

Since1982 · Sep 30, 2024

No grace period. Fine, points, vehicle impounded. You are allowed to drive to a garage for a pre booked MOT appointment and must be able to evidence this if stopped by the police.

Weststander · Sep 30, 2024

To add to your woes, many insurers would treat this as invalidated insurance.

essbee1 · Sep 30, 2024

Ta everyone. Seems to be a weight of evidence here.

essbee1 · Sep 30, 2024

Weststander said:
To add to your woes, many insurers would treat this as invalidated insurance.

You mean if something happened to the car when I had no MOT Weststander?

Weststander · Sep 30, 2024

essbee1 said:
You mean if something happened to the car when I had no MOT Weststander?

Yes, or someone elses.

Cheshire Cat · Sep 30, 2024

You cannot drive or park your vehicle on the road if the MOT has run out. You can be prosecuted if caught.
The only exceptions are to drive it:

to or from somewhere to be repaired
to a pre-arranged MOT test

Getting an MOT

When you need an MOT for your vehicle, what it costs, what happens if your vehicle fails, and how to get mistakes on the MOT certificate fixed.

www.gov.uk

You've probably invalidated your insurance as well.

sully · Sep 30, 2024

Thanks for the reminder. I had to move my MOT test because I had Covid and couldn’t take it to Setyres. Not certain when it runs out but put the car on the drive, just in case.

pb21 · Sep 30, 2024

Cheshire Cat said:
You cannot drive or park your vehicle on the road if the MOT has run out. You can be prosecuted if caught.
The only exceptions are to drive it:

to or from somewhere to be repaired

to a pre-arranged MOT test

Getting an MOT

When you need an MOT for your vehicle, what it costs, what happens if your vehicle fails, and how to get mistakes on the MOT certificate fixed.

www.gov.uk

You've probably invalidated your insurance as well.

So can you legally drive a car with valid insurance without a current MOT to a pre-arranged MOT test?

Cheshire Cat · Sep 30, 2024

Although you are unlikely to get caught if you are not involved in an accident. I know of someone who inadvertently drove for six months without an MOT because they had the wrong renewal date in mind (it was along time ago).

Weststander · Sep 30, 2024

Cheshire Cat said:
Although you are unlikely to get caught if you are not involved in an accident. I know of someone who inadvertently drove for six months without an MOT because they had the wrong renewal date in mind (it was along time ago).

ANPR cameras have altered the odds.

dazzer6666 · Sep 30, 2024

pb21 said:
So can you legally drive a car with valid insurance without a current MOT to a pre-arranged MOT test?

‘RTFP’ would be the answer to that kind of question in my last job……. :laugh:

Since1982 · Sep 30, 2024

essbee1 said:
You mean if something happened to the car when I had no MOT Weststander?

Even if nothing happened to it, it's almost certainly a condition of your insurance that it has a valid MOT if used on a public road. So no MOT and no insurance, you're losing the car if stopped.

essbee1 · Sep 30, 2024

Can the DVLA issue a fine for example, if your car is caught on camera doing say 80mph on the M25 and
you are without an MOT? Would the speed people be obliged to tell DVLA? This hasn't happened, but it scares me
to think that nothing works in this country but ironically the only bit of fu**ing joined up technology
is a fine-based system for MOTs. Anyway no excuses I guess.

A mex eyecan · Sep 30, 2024

pb21 said:
So can you legally drive a car with valid insurance without a current MOT to a pre-arranged MOT test?

i’d just give your insurers a call to get the word from the horses mouth

Justice · Sep 30, 2024

Cheshire Cat said:
Although you are unlikely to get caught if you are not involved in an accident. I know of someone who inadvertently drove for six months without an MOT because they had the wrong renewal date in mind (it was along time ago).

I was so busy last year I really just did forget for about 7 months drove in front of and behind plenty of coppers to in that time. Guess I was lucky.

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