New tyres needed and mot due... quick question

[Daniel1]

Just a quick one.

My car is currently SORN, it requires an MOT but to pass the MOT it requires new tyres. What are the rules on taking it to the tyre shop to have all four changed even though the MOT is on a different day?

thanks

[fido]

Have them fitted at your home via a mobile tyre service?

[Rutter]

MOTtesting.org.uk said:

a car that does not have as current MOT Certificate is not allowed to be used on the road except when going for repairs for an MOT test, or to a prearranged MOTtest.

Tyres sounds like a repair to me.

[Karlos69]

Rutter said:

MOTtesting.org.uk said:

a car that does not have as current MOT Certificate is not allowed to be used on the road except when going for repairs for an MOT test, or to a prearranged MOTtest.

Tyres sounds like a repair to me.

What he said

[UncleRic]

'Repair' yes.. but a tyre in a very bad condition would still cause you massive problems if you got pulled over or had an accident.

[Karlos69]

UncleRic said:

'Repair' yes.. but a tyre in a very bad condition would still cause you massive problems if you got pulled over or had an accident.

mmm... good point. Is there no way the OP can whip off the offending wheels and run them down to a tyre fitters in another car, just to save any trouble from the BiB?

[Shaw Tarse]

Karlos69 said:

UncleRic said:

'Repair' yes.. but a tyre in a very bad condition would still cause you massive problems if you got pulled over or had an accident.

mmm... good point. Is there no way the OP can whip off the offending wheels and run them down to a tyre fitters in another car, just to save any trouble from the BiB?

Or as fido said, get them fitted at home.

[SS2.]

Rutter said:

Tyres sounds like a repair to me.

That exemption only applies if the vehicle has already failed an MOT and is on its way to have the failure items repaired.

[Dwight VanDriver]

as SS2 rightly states
Exemption from MOT

MV (Tests) Regs 1981

Pursuant to section 44(6) the Secretary of State hereby exempts from section 44(1) the use of a vehicle :-

(a)

(i) for the purpose of submitting it by previous arrangement for, or bringing it away from, an examination, or

(ii) in the course of an examination, for the purpose of taking it to, or bringing it away from, any place where a part of the examination is to be or, as the case may be, has been, carried out, or of carrying out any part of the examination,

the person so using it being either :-

(A) an examiner, or a Ministry Inspector or an inspector appointed by a designated council, or

(B) a person acting under the personal direction of an examiner, a Ministry Inspector or a designated Council, or

(iii) where a test certificate is refused on an examination :-

(A) for the purpose of delivering it by previous arrangement at, or bringing it away from, a place where work is to be or has been done on it to remedy for a further examination the defects on the ground of which the test certificate was refused; or

(B) for the purpose of delivering it, by towing it, to a place where the vehicle is to be broken up;

Nothing about repaire aforehand..... and as stated much ttrouble if caught with bald tyes and a plethora of points...
dvd

[Cyberprog]

If the tyres are bad enough you'd get points normally, then IIRC you'd still risk the same points driving it to a test centre like that. And it would probably be a fault that you'd not be allowed to leave the test centre with as well. I'd either get a mobile service to do it, or take the wheels off and down to a tyre depot.

[mcford]

Cyberprog said:

And it would probably be a fault that you'd not be allowed to leave the test centre with as well.

The testing station doesn't have the authority to stop you driving your car away.

[Petemate]

mcford said:

The testing station doesn't have the authority to stop you driving your car away.

I thought that an MOT station can issue a prohibition notice? Although I suppose physical intervention when a customer drives a car off would be out of order. What a minefield. I have a mate who does our MOTs for the family and will ask him when I see him next.

[Karlos69]

Petemate said:

I thought that an MOT station can issue a prohibition notice? Although I suppose physical intervention when a customer drives a car off would be out of order. What a minefield. I have a mate who does our MOTs for the family and will ask him when I see him next.

I was under the impression that only VOSA or a prohibition-trained Police Officer can issue a prohibition notice for a vehicle.

[Petemate]

Karlos69 said:

Petemate said:

I thought that an MOT station can issue a prohibition notice? Although I suppose physical intervention when a customer drives a car off would be out of order. What a minefield. I have a mate who does our MOTs for the family and will ask him when I see him next.

I was under the impression that only VOSA or a prohibition-trained Police Officer can issue a prohibition notice for a vehicle.

Perhaps I am thinking of a certain kind of fail certificate that indicated that the vehicle is not safe to drive.

[anonymous-user]

Karlos69 said:

I was under the impression that only VOSA or a prohibition-trained Police Officer can issue a prohibition notice for a vehicle.

I'm sure I've had a prohibition after an MOT before. Once they told me the top half of the car needed to be re-welded to the bottom half...