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Get it done anyway if it's in the garage. If it fails you still have the old MOT so you can then effect repairs at leisure. If it passes then you know you're ready for the rest of the summer 
I think there is still the 30 day limit as I was trying to do that on mine with my brother in law in May, but did the mot 40 days before so just took the hit and got 12 months mot. Still had problems finding the car on the new fandangled machine at his garage - they think it's called a puter
I think there is still the 30 day limit as I was trying to do that on mine with my brother in law in May, but did the mot 40 days before so just took the hit and got 12 months mot. Still had problems finding the car on the new fandangled machine at his garage - they think it's called a puter
gsx600 said:
Get it done anyway if it's in the garage. If it fails you still have the old MOT so you can then effect repairs at leisure. If it passes then you know you're ready for the rest of the summer
I think a fail supersedes the old ticket even if it has not expired. I would imagine the fail will be logged on the DVLA computer now too so there will be no fooling Mr policeman and no renewal of you tax.
jon@127 said:
gsx600 said:
Get it done anyway if it's in the garage. If it fails you still have the old MOT so you can then effect repairs at leisure. If it passes then you know you're ready for the rest of the summer
I think a fail supersedes the old ticket even if it has not expired. I would imagine the fail will be logged on the DVLA computer now too so there will be no fooling Mr policeman and no renewal of you tax.
Jon, all that would be shown on pnc would be the fact that 'mot details not held' like with some vehicles who's insurance companies do not enter the details.
If a valid mot is presented to a police officer then that is taken as is.
However if the vehicle is obviously breaking all sorts of construction and use regulations it can be prohibited, or seized and examined by a suitably trained officer.
jon@127 said:
I think a fail supersedes the old ticket even if it has not expired. I would imagine the fail will be logged on the DVLA computer now too so there will be no fooling Mr policeman and no renewal of you tax.
Is that so? I always get mine MOT'd every six months (beginning and end of summer) so if anything goes wrong I have six months to fix it. If there's a chance I'll be forced to take it off the road after six months, I'll not bother. Anyone know the law?!?!
A friend of mine maintains that if you have a car MOT Tested before the expiry date she will have 2 weeks in which to repair / drive it before it is illegal. I am under the understanding that once the MOT has expired you are not permitted to drive at all unless going to and from a place of repair (MOT Garage or otherwise). Please can you clairfy the correct and legal thing to do. Many Thanks, Dan Clark
Your MOT is valid until its expiry date even if in the meantime your
car fails the MOT - the original pass is still valid. In fact you can have the Test done up to a calendar month before the expiry date and have the new MOT forward-dated to the expiry date of the existing certificate. So if you have your car Tested during that month and it fails, this gives you time to have the repairs carried out and the car re-tested before the expiry of the original certificate and you are not disadvantaged as a result. - MOTT.
Your MOT is valid until its expiry date even if in the meantime your
car fails the MOT - the original pass is still valid. In fact you can have the Test done up to a calendar month before the expiry date and have the new MOT forward-dated to the expiry date of the existing certificate. So if you have your car Tested during that month and it fails, this gives you time to have the repairs carried out and the car re-tested before the expiry of the original certificate and you are not disadvantaged as a result. - MOTT.
Just to be pedantic: 
So, the computer has recorded your car's failure due to duff brakes, and you have an accident on your way home, subsequently shown to have been caused by ....duff brakes.
Strictly speaking you have been driving a vehicle knowing it to be unroadworthy.
Hmmm - you might get away with it with a good Solicitor; but if the same thing happens after you've been riding around in it for 2 weeks on the old unexpired MOT ?
Edited to add:
The point being I suppose....does the computer record the failures too ?
So, the computer has recorded your car's failure due to duff brakes, and you have an accident on your way home, subsequently shown to have been caused by ....duff brakes.
Strictly speaking you have been driving a vehicle knowing it to be unroadworthy.
Hmmm - you might get away with it with a good Solicitor; but if the same thing happens after you've been riding around in it for 2 weeks on the old unexpired MOT ?
Edited to add:
The point being I suppose....does the computer record the failures too ?
Edited by grahamw48 on Wednesday 7th June 10:27
I have had my van done 25 days before the old one expired - on the computerised system without a problem.
The MOT can fail items for potentially unsafe as well as actually unsafe just because a car has failed an MOT doesn't mean that an unroadworthy charge could be proved.
MOT testers have the powers to give you an extreme failure (can't remember what it is called) that prohibits you driving it away, if this is not issued then I don't think that you would have too much of a problem. After all the vast majority of (free) retakes have failed once and been driven away.
Russ
The MOT can fail items for potentially unsafe as well as actually unsafe just because a car has failed an MOT doesn't mean that an unroadworthy charge could be proved.
MOT testers have the powers to give you an extreme failure (can't remember what it is called) that prohibits you driving it away, if this is not issued then I don't think that you would have too much of a problem. After all the vast majority of (free) retakes have failed once and been driven away.
Russ
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