driving a car to mot station reasonable distance
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So Im going to pick up a car in a few days ....
the owner has just realised mot has expired !!! hes going to book it in ...so he says
can i book the car in at my local garage and drive from owners address .....its 200 miles
would this be deemed reasonable !!!
if not what is the penalty
cheers
Sounds reasonable to me, as long as you are going there directly and not via your great aunt's...
Have heard of a car stopped on the way to MOT (no plates) exiting the roundabout not in the shortest direction to the centre.
BiB questioned the route taken, but accepted the excuse that fuel was needed to make it to the MOT centre (big garage off the exit taken from roundabout)
Have heard of a car stopped on the way to MOT (no plates) exiting the roundabout not in the shortest direction to the centre.
BiB questioned the route taken, but accepted the excuse that fuel was needed to make it to the MOT centre (big garage off the exit taken from roundabout)
DBSV8 said:
So Im going to pick up a car in a few days ....
the owner has just realised mot has expired !!! hes going to book it in ...so he says
can i book the car in at my local garage and drive from owners address .....its 200 miles
would this be deemed reasonable !!!
if not what is the penalty
cheers
I seem to remember having the car booked in is the legal requirment for driving to get it MOT. I might be wrong though it has beena few years.
There is no distance or relevant restriction on where the car is booked in for the MOT as far as I can see. The car must go straight there. If you are prosecuted for an MOT offence alone, the fine is non endorsable and likely to be in the region of less than £100 depending on your means (normally about £60 plus costs)
If your vehicle with no MOT is found to have some defects, you may well get summonsed for them. Dangerous condition and all brakes (including hand brake) offences are endorsable as is unsuitable use. many uses of the vehicle can fit into the dangerous condition or unsuitable use categories. The opinion of any Bib will be tested when you plead NG at court. Other than that offences relating to anything the car might fail on plus the MOT offence could cost reasonably big bucks at court.
If your vehicle with no MOT is found to have some defects, you may well get summonsed for them. Dangerous condition and all brakes (including hand brake) offences are endorsable as is unsuitable use. many uses of the vehicle can fit into the dangerous condition or unsuitable use categories. The opinion of any Bib will be tested when you plead NG at court. Other than that offences relating to anything the car might fail on plus the MOT offence could cost reasonably big bucks at court.
sheepy said:
Something that I've never quite clear about: supposing the car fails the test (and lets suppose this is for some fault that doesn't make the car inherently dangerous) is it still legal to drive home afterwards?
If it fails a test prior to the MOT expiring, and the MOT tester does not issue a dangerous vehicle notice [or whatever the correct name for it is], there is nothing to stop you driving it anywhere untill the MOT expires.
I was thinking about the case where the car had no MOT but was allowed to be driven directly to the MOT station for a test appointment. If it fails the test but has no obvious safety critical faults, can it legally be driven home again? Or this permission to drive to an MOT test a one-way thing?
GreenV8S said:
I was thinking about the case where the car had no MOT but was allowed to be driven directly to the MOT station for a test appointment. If it fails the test but has no obvious safety critical faults, can it legally be driven home again? Or this permission to drive to an MOT test a one-way thing?
Yes. Or to another place where it is to be repaired providing the fault did not make the vehicle subject to dangerous driving. If that was the case, the vehicle would have to be towed, trailored or repaired at the place it failed the test.
Dangerous driving can also be the fact that the vehicle had a defect that the driver knew to be so dangeorus that the driving of it constituted a danger or potential danger to other road users. If the vehicle failed on such a defect and the owner drove it away, then they would be subject of a dangerous driving charge as well as any other specific defect offence.
rewc said:Except the original question was for a car with no mot
Something that I've never quite clear about: supposing the car fails the test (and lets suppose this is for some fault that doesn't make the car inherently dangerous) is it still legal to drive home afterwards?
If it fails a test prior to the MOT expiring, and the MOT tester does not issue a dangerous vehicle notice [or whatever the correct name for it is], there is nothing to stop you driving it anywhere untill the MOT expires.
mg6b said:
Yes. Or to another place where it is to be repaired providing the fault did not make the vehicle subject to dangerous driving.
A car does not have have an expired MOT for it to be driven dangerously... OTOH it cannot be driven with an MOT if, in the testers opinion the car has faults which make it dangerous to drive
I was under the impression that the "driving to a pre-booked MOT rule" was open to interpretation either way, i.e. is the distance "reasonable"? It would be "reasonable" to do a long journey to a specialist for a particular model of car, but less so for a vanilla MOT for any old car. In that case, BiB may decide it would have been reasonable to drive to a local MOT test station rather than 200 miles home...
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