Driving to get repairs before MOT
Discussion
I know this one has been done to death but I have a subtle sub-question to ask.
Exact circumstances:
My son damaged his car last winter by running into the back of someone. It's taken until now for him to find the bits needed to repair it. In the meantime, the car has been garaged but the MOT has run out.
He needs to get it repaired before he can take it for MOT - basically replace bonnet, bumper, headlights (cracked including brackets, so, badly aligned, but working), etc - all the frontal niceties. Needs driving to a workshop for those parts to be replaced.
I've had a Google around and found two scenarios:
1. You can drive it to have faults discovered during an MOT test rectified (he obv hasn't put it through a test yet, waste of time and money as we know it will fail). This was from the "ask the police" website but I don't know whether that is a kosher point of reference?
2. You can drive it to have repairs done which it will need to pass a test (note the absence of any prerequisite of a failed test).
Can anyone confirm definitively, without a keyboard shouting match, whether (1) is correct (I haven't heard of the failed test requirement before) or whether he can legally, subject of course to insurance, drive it as-is? Thanks.
Exact circumstances:
My son damaged his car last winter by running into the back of someone. It's taken until now for him to find the bits needed to repair it. In the meantime, the car has been garaged but the MOT has run out.
He needs to get it repaired before he can take it for MOT - basically replace bonnet, bumper, headlights (cracked including brackets, so, badly aligned, but working), etc - all the frontal niceties. Needs driving to a workshop for those parts to be replaced.
I've had a Google around and found two scenarios:
1. You can drive it to have faults discovered during an MOT test rectified (he obv hasn't put it through a test yet, waste of time and money as we know it will fail). This was from the "ask the police" website but I don't know whether that is a kosher point of reference?
2. You can drive it to have repairs done which it will need to pass a test (note the absence of any prerequisite of a failed test).
Can anyone confirm definitively, without a keyboard shouting match, whether (1) is correct (I haven't heard of the failed test requirement before) or whether he can legally, subject of course to insurance, drive it as-is? Thanks.
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