61ason61
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congratsI hope mine passes MOT next week
When do you have to have the MOT done?
Do you get 2 weeks either side of the date shown?
your ticket should say you can present it a month before due date.
you can pop it in whenever really.
the ONLY TIME you can drive it after the mot has run out is TO the mot station. AND HOME AGAIN IF IT FAILS.
If it fails , you can drive it to a garage for repairs, ONLY IF BOOKED IN. You get stopped and its not booked in for work/retest it will get CRUSHED AS AN UNROADWORTHY VEHICLE. (they won't accept the i'm on my way to the garage now officer blag anymore)
BASICALLY TO AND FROM MOT STATION ONLY, OR GARAGE. But then if you don't get the work done by mot station and by different garage you will have to repay mot fee, do it yourself and its up to mot'ers discression to recharge you or not. let them do the work and re test is free.
NEVER DRIVE AND UN MOT'D CAR TO MOT STATION OR GARAGE WITHOUT BOOKING IT IN. NO BOOKING = UNROADWORTHY VEHICLE ILLIGALLY DRIVEN = CRUSHED. Hope that helps.
The only time you can drive a vehicle without tax, again is to a prebooked mot and home again. as you need the mot for the tax. old bill will argue this, if you get a dopy copper, as I've had this argument and they lost!!!
regardless of the above, altough without mot or tax or both, you still have to be insured. its the only time the insurance will pay out on untaxed/unmot'd motors as not having mot or tax does make insurance null and void, again unless going to or from garage, again prebooked or everything is void!!
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