Quick MOT question
Discussion
In days of yore, the old certificate might have got you by but now they can check electronically and it will show the car as unroadworthy and effectively having failed an MOT. They could either prosecute for no MOT or have alternative construction and use offences or if the defects are dangerous, you could even be prosecuted for dangerous driving with all that entails.
OK, this is what happened to me last month:
I booked the car in for an MOT on 21 June with 20-odd days left on the old MOT. It needed taxing at the end of June. It failed the MOT, requiring new front lower arm bushes, a specialist job the MOT station didn't have the tools for. Panic ensued as I theoretically had a car that needed taxing, and had no MOT.
I went onto the taxdirect website to see if I could tax it anyway, and succeeded. So NO, a failure does not automatically invalidate the current MOT.
I presume the reason for this is that you could go to the Post Office with the old (still valid) MOT and tax the car, even though it may have just failed. How would they argue that you can't tax it?
I booked the car in for an MOT on 21 June with 20-odd days left on the old MOT. It needed taxing at the end of June. It failed the MOT, requiring new front lower arm bushes, a specialist job the MOT station didn't have the tools for. Panic ensued as I theoretically had a car that needed taxing, and had no MOT.
I went onto the taxdirect website to see if I could tax it anyway, and succeeded. So NO, a failure does not automatically invalidate the current MOT.
I presume the reason for this is that you could go to the Post Office with the old (still valid) MOT and tax the car, even though it may have just failed. How would they argue that you can't tax it?
As I understand it (might be wrong), it doesn't invalidate the MoT but it does presumably demonstrate that the vehicle is unroadworthy and driving an unroadworthy vehicle on the road is illegal.
You can certainly still tax a car that has failed an MoT if the old MoT hasn't expired yet.
You can certainly still tax a car that has failed an MoT if the old MoT hasn't expired yet.
The vehicle components tested on the MoT are only some of the points covered by the Construction & Use Regs.
To be pedantic, just because a vehicle passed an MoT a minute before doesn't mean that it complies with every last detail of the C&U Regs.
The MoT is just a starting point for ensuring some basic vehicle safety standard is met, and the certificate is valid to its end date even if the vehicle subsequently has a safety defect relating to passing an MoT or a breach of the C&U Regs which isn't covered by the MoT. As such, this system is a bit of a halfway house in some ways but it generally works well - although I'd suggest we could do with more/some police officers policing the roads (like we used to have) to bring vehicle safety standards back up again
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To be pedantic, just because a vehicle passed an MoT a minute before doesn't mean that it complies with every last detail of the C&U Regs.
The MoT is just a starting point for ensuring some basic vehicle safety standard is met, and the certificate is valid to its end date even if the vehicle subsequently has a safety defect relating to passing an MoT or a breach of the C&U Regs which isn't covered by the MoT. As such, this system is a bit of a halfway house in some ways but it generally works well - although I'd suggest we could do with more/some police officers policing the roads (like we used to have) to bring vehicle safety standards back up again
.Under no circumstance can an MOT certificate be invalidated or revoked by taking another test. Some might think that that's how it should work, since the car is not roadworthy if it fails the test so should lose any remaining MOT time, but here's the other side of the coin - how can you actively punish those who take their cars in for test early to give themselves a month to get any faults rectified while the old certificate carries on? You can't. So they don't.
No test will invalidate another certificate. Which is nice
No test will invalidate another certificate. Which is nice
Again? Really?
Read the fail sheet notes, it really is not hard.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/repository/Plain%20Pape...
Note 1 bottom right.
Read the fail sheet notes, it really is not hard.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/repository/Plain%20Pape...
Note 1 bottom right.
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