Computerised MOT's

[eccles]

just wondering if anyone on here could clarify something for me.
with the old MOT system, if you took your car in a couple of weeks early, and it failed, you'd take you car away to fix it, and carry on driving, as long as it wasn't in a dangerous condition. if you then got pulled over by mister plod, and given a producer, on paper, your car would still be legal.

i've been told ( by a tester) that with the new system, once your car has failed an MOT, its logged on the computer as a failed MOT.
so if you are pulled, and it comes up on the trafpols computer that you've failed your MOT, but still have a couple of weeks left on your old one, how would you stand?

can they do you for not having a valid MOT, or does the fact that you have your old, valid one, still count?

[rodney59]

I though the old system was once it had failed thats it - its failed. You can only drive it to a garage to be fixed or a MOT station for an MOT. Would have thought the same of the new MOT.

someone correct me if i'm wrong?

[eccles]

yes, but on the old system, no one knew you'd failed apart from you and the garage, and if you got pulled, you could just show your still in date MOT.

[egomeister]

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=224223

[eccles]

many thanks.