I am likely to be out of the country, with the vehicle, when the MoT becomes due; is it legal to take the vehicle for an MoT 6 months before the due date so that I can move the renewal date away for travel date?
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Take it every day if you want.....after all you're the one paying the test fee.
More to the point....if it fails does that cancel the current MOT
Just sent Geo a PM to get it from the horses mouth, as they say.i would think it would ,,,a vehicle that fails is not up to MOT standards and should not be on the road,,,,,,,but there are some garages that will do a pree MOT just go through the motions and tell you what it would fail on.....
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makes sense.Greetings,
To answer the last question first.
However, you would be committing whatever offence, if you used the vehicle on the road with a defect that showed up in the test.
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yes but surely if you put it in for test early and it fails,,then i would think that once the testing station press the buttons and send the details of the test result to the place they send them, then it would show up as MOT failure till a pass result is sent through,,,Just sent Geo a PM to get it from the horses mouth, as they say.
What you say regarding not to standard, the MOT is an examination AT THE TIME OF TEST ONLY and the law only assumes it should remain so for a full year so an hour/day/week/month after the MOT it could develop a fault which it could fail on....but it is still MOT certified as ok.
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Hi Puddles,
It would be the same as taking the car in half way through it's MOT year to be told,"Your brakes are shot" and doing nothing about it.
Anyone who ignores that kind of info deserves the book being thrown (and the fist holding the book)
Certainly, but we are away next weekend and the earliest i can get booked in is next friday.....the current MOT expires midnight next Saturday so if it fails on friday and if it should override the current ticket theres little i can do but hope i dont get a pull.But if it fails an MOT (even if there is an older MOT issued within the previous 12 months) you would want to get it fixed asap, wouldn't you?
yes but surely if you put it in for test early and it fails,,then i would think that once the testing station press the buttons and send the details of the test result to the place they send them, then it would show up as MOT failure till a pass result is sent through,,,
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Hi sb8263,
You would think that what you have suggested would apply, and in the world real world perhaps it should BUT,
UK law doesn't work in that way. The offence of use motor vehicle without an MOT Cert is only committed if a Pass Cert has not been issued in the preceding twelve moths.
As I've previously said, non compliant part that caused the failure would create an offence for the user if the user continued to use the vehicle post test failure.
Hi sb8263,
You would think that what you have suggested would apply, and in the world real world perhaps it should BUT,
UK law doesn't work in that way. The offence of use motor vehicle without an MOT Cert is only committed if a Pass Cert has not been issued in the preceding twelve moths.
As I've previously said, non compliant part that caused the failure would create an offence for the user if the user continued to use the vehicle post test failure.[/QUOTE
Agreed, but the offence is committed even if an early test fail is issued or not, if stopped and checks undertaken.
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The reply to my PM to Geo..........Hi Pappajohn, I left "the job" before the MOT Database was established to inform the Police on the street as to the legality (or otherwise) of vehicles they see and stop.
As a result I am unable to comment on current practice but it would seem to me a no brainer that if the Police have details of the failure, whilst they could not continue down that route, the database would invariably show the reason for the failure and they, (The bobby on the ground) would home in on that part of the vehicle that caused the failure. As previously said, it could be a minor, correctable item, although one one imagine that any such irregularity would be sorted. More serious defects that were not corrected and therefore a fail cert issued would be open to scrutiny.
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