Traveller_HA5_3DOM
Free Member
Met a full timer here in Spain yesterday who was planning to return to UK to get his vehicle MOT'd.
My thoughts on this are that it is part of UK law to have your three year old plus vehicle tested every year to be able to comply with the MOT regulations.
These regs. do not extend outside of the UK they are made in our Parliament and are for our residents on our roads.
It is part of all insurance contracts that you keep your vehicle in a roadworthy condition every single day it is used on a public road in the UK and in any other country your insurance extends to.
As most will realise the UK MOT Certificate only covers the time and day the vehicle was presented for the test. This is because once you leave the testing station you could swap all the tyres round for illegal ones, bulbs can expire on the way home, etc.etc.
The plain facts of insurance are that if you need to claim after an accident and the police vehicle examiner says your vehicle was unroadworthy, MOT or not, you will be lucky to receive anything other than the basic third party cover, which of course is for any others involved not you. Dependent on the faults found various other offences may be revealed and summonses issued for them.
So the question arises; Why are full timers trudging back to the UK for MOTs and UK Vehicle Excise Licences each year?
My thoughts on this are that it is part of UK law to have your three year old plus vehicle tested every year to be able to comply with the MOT regulations.
These regs. do not extend outside of the UK they are made in our Parliament and are for our residents on our roads.
It is part of all insurance contracts that you keep your vehicle in a roadworthy condition every single day it is used on a public road in the UK and in any other country your insurance extends to.
As most will realise the UK MOT Certificate only covers the time and day the vehicle was presented for the test. This is because once you leave the testing station you could swap all the tyres round for illegal ones, bulbs can expire on the way home, etc.etc.
The plain facts of insurance are that if you need to claim after an accident and the police vehicle examiner says your vehicle was unroadworthy, MOT or not, you will be lucky to receive anything other than the basic third party cover, which of course is for any others involved not you. Dependent on the faults found various other offences may be revealed and summonses issued for them.
So the question arises; Why are full timers trudging back to the UK for MOTs and UK Vehicle Excise Licences each year?