MOT/tax question...

[mamanat]

Not too sure if I'm posting in the right place! I've just bought a car ad said MOT until september 2013, no tax. I got the car and the guy forgot to bring the most recent MOT slip and he's been working today but I really want to get the car on the road. It's all insured I've got the green slip to take to the post office (can't do it online yet with records changing) I've got insurance documents and green slip. Does anyone know if they can do it without the MOT paper? Thank you in advance.

[4key]

Short answer no.

Long answer noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.




If you have a VOSA office/test station close by they can print you off a copy. Probably quicker to get the previous owner to send you the old one though.

[mywifeshusband]

The barcode on the green slip will be scanned by the Post Office and this will tell them there is a valid MOT. And the insurance is checked, it's just as easy as doing online. You should be ok without the MOT bit of paper.

[cambiker71]

A DVLA office can do it without MOT paperwork, but they do need the insurance policy, I did this last year when I left the MOT certificate on my desk at work!

[mamanat]

Ah I suppose I could just go to post office and try my luck lol thanks all

[4key]

Ah yeah, I think hes right and the divla can do it.


Post office definately says http://www.postoffice.co.uk/vehicle-tax

[Steffan]

mywifeshusband said:

The barcode on the green slip will be scanned by the Post Office and this will tell them there is a valid MOT. And the insurance is checked, it's just as easy as doing online. You should be ok without the MOT bit of paper.

That is my view. Since the MOT went online some time ago the Police, DVLA and the Post Office can assess whether a car has a current MOT. Therefore you should be ok, I think providing the car is actually MOT'd.

The days of paperwork ate leaving us. Good. Certainty by access to the source must be better.

[mamanat]

Steffan said:

That is my view. Since the MOT went online some time ago the Police, DVLA and the Post Office can assess whether a car has a current MOT. Therefore you should be ok, I think providing the car is actually MOT'd.

The days of paperwork ate leaving us. Good. Certainty by access to the source must be better.

Honestly I am a little worried that there may not be an MOT. Tried to check online but its not taking the document reference number on the green slip, although putting in previous MOT numbers come up with what's on the paper and HPI check came back clear. Regretting impulse buying lol

[4key]

Private seller or a trader?

[Sir Bagalot]

I do hope it actually has a current MOT......

[mamanat]

So do I. There's an MOT test centre down the road so I'll try my luck at post office first if that doesn't pan out I'll go there. Private seller.

[Steffan]

mamanat said:

So do I. There's an MOT test centre down the road so I'll try my luck at post office first if that doesn't pan out I'll go there. Private seller.

Still deliberate misrepresentation if it is not MOT'd. I do hope it is. Good luck.

[mamanat]

I bought it on ebay so maybe if i've been misled then I can sort it through there. Maybe. Maybe it really has an MOT lol another question actually, I tried checking online with the document reference number but its saying it doesn't match would that be because its all been sent off? And if I do have to go to a test centre will they be able to find the mot without it? Its my first car so I haven't got a clue

[4key]

yeah fingers crossed for you, does sound a bit suspicious though. What do the previous MOTs show on the computer, same test centres and a few advisories on the past few?



Ebay link?

[4key]

Where have you got the reference number from, the old V5? IIRC the code changes on them each time so if it has been processed through the dvla the number you have wont work.

[dowahdiddyman]

Done mine at the p/o without the mot cert, took the wrong one, as said they can check on line instantly so shouldn`t be a problem.

[mamanat]

4key said:

yeah fingers crossed for you, does sound a bit suspicious though. What do the previous MOTs show on the computer, same test centres and a few advisories on the past few?

Most recent one i have is from may 2011. It has quite a few advisories but passed. One on that that's definitely been fixed is damage to windscreen there's definitely none there now. shock absorbers, brake pads, noisy exhaust, brake discs. Actually that is a retest so it had failed and then things were fixed still with advisories. All matches up on the computer but I can only see the ones I have the mot test number for.

[mamanat]

4key said:

Where have you got the reference number from, the old V5? IIRC the code changes on them each time so if it has been processed through the dvla the number you have wont work.

Yeah the old V5, thats the green slip right?

[mamanat]

dowahdiddyman said:

Done mine at the p/o without the mot cert, took the wrong one, as said they can check on line instantly so shouldn`t be a problem.

Really brilliant, will definitely do post office first stop

[M4cruiser]

mamanat said:

Most recent one i have is from may 2011. All matches up on the computer but I can only see the ones I have the mot test number for.

Not sure if you are right there - when I put any of my MoTs in to the web site it brings up the whole history including the most recent MoT, so it sounds to me like there is no more recent MoT.

Your earlier post left me with the same impression - experience tells me that if a seller has "forgotten" something then you need to assume the worst.