MOT Fail Question

[Double Fault]

Hi

My car failed its MOT today:

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Repair immediately (major defects):
Offside Rear Tyre has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (5.2.3 (d) (i))

What are defects?
Major defects may compromise the safety of the vehicle, put other road users at risk, or harm the environment. A vehicle with a major defect will fail the test.

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The garage doesn't have a tyre and won't until Mon/Tue next week at the earliest.

Is it legal and am I insured to drive the car to a tyre place tomorrow and then get it retested early next week?

If relevant, the previous MOT runs until 21st Dec.

Cheers

[anonymous-user]

Major defects mean you shouldn't drive it but in reality the chances of you getting stopped on the way to the tyre place are tiny.
If you're worried put the spare on,if you have one

[Double Fault]

V8covin said:

Major defects mean you shouldn't drive it but in reality the chances of you getting stopped on the way to the tyre place are tiny.
If you're worried put the spare on,if you have one

No spare alas

[irc]

The problem now is that you are aware your car has a major defect. If you had a crash caused by it you would be in deep st.

That is very unlikely though after all you have been driving with it for a while. A few times I have seen drivers going merrily along with a punctured back tyre not realising what the noise was.

Assuming your tyre place is local I would drive the car, carefully, at 30mph, there., I wouldn't use it apart from that until it was fixed.

The 100% legal way is to take the wheel off and take it to the tyre place in you pals/dads/ car.

Insurance? I'm guessing here but if it caused a crash they might cover third party damage but not your damage.

[Tommie38]

Is your last MOT still valid?

If so you can drive on a major defect. That said, you risk issues if you get stopped and you might have issues with an insurance claim too. I would not have a problem driving a short distance to a tyre place, obviously use your own judgement.

If a dangerous fail you can’t drive until repaired. I wouldn’t do that.

For clarity, a ‘major defect’ does not render your last MOT invalid so there is not immediately a legal/MOT issue there. It is more that your vehicle might be considered to be in an unroadworthy condition, which means police/insurance could be a problem. That is not the same as the MOT.

Edited by Tommie38 on Friday 9th December 17:35

Edited by Tommie38 on Friday 9th December 17:39

[Jazoli]

Surely you can just go to kwik fit/national and get a tyre over the weekend the present it for a retest next week?

[Double Fault]

Jazoli said:

Surely you can just go to kwik fit/national and get a tyre over the weekend the present it for a retest next week?

That’s the plan….I”m querying what the situation is to get it there

[deckster]

Your MOT is still valid.

Your car is still unroadworthy and illegal to drive.

Your call.

[XDA]

irc said:

The 100% legal way is to take the wheel off and take it to the tyre place in you pals/dads/ car.

That would be my suggestion.

Some tyre places offer a mobile fitting service so you could maybe get them to come out to you?

[samoht]

If it was me, and I had something I needed the car for over the weekend, I'd drive it slowly to a nearby tyre place and not worry.

The chance of the tyre failing on a short journey at < 30mph is very low. If it does fail, the chance of that causing a serious crash at < 30mph is very low. So the combined probability of a significant crash caused by the tyre bursting on that trip is negligible.

I don't believe insurance would be an issue if you had an incident unrelated to the tyre, and I don't believe a copper would be particularly harsh if you were polite and explained you were just heading to the tyre garage just up the road.