Car tax and mot

choc_mouse

You might be right about the MOT but they could get pulled for no tax; then the police will just check everything and also discover no MOT.

BarksHC

choc_mouse wrote: »

Just some further information, you have 14 days (from today) to get the new tax disc or declare the vehicle as SORN:

I am relying on this! tried to buy tax online but no MOT so took it straight in and it failed. Off to the local garage man - ouch on the wallet no doubt but better than the official dealership doing it. meanwhile school run . . .

adouglasmhor

Officer_Dibble wrote: »

ANPR will bring up expired MOT's.

It must have the paperwork date on it then and not the date on the MOT test system as I had been driving for over a month with a paper MOT in date and the system one out of date, and I pass traffic cars every day. Thanks for the info.

vaio

When I went to renew my tax (expired December) on the 12th of Jan it failed the online MOT check.

When I found the certificate I discovered it ran out last August so I’ve been driving MOT less for almost six months. During that time I must have covered the thick end of 10,000 miles including multiple trips into central London, up and down the M1 & M4 and over the Channel twice without hearing a peep from any of the ANPR units I must have passed.

Maybe no MOT by itself is too small a crime to bother with, maybe the MOT database isn’t linked to ANPR or maybe I was just lucky

choc_mouse

I couldn't find any hard references but reading around the claims are mostly that the MOT database is computerised so the police have access to it, rather than it being used directly with the ANPR system.

You could interpret this as the government being more concerned about money = road tax + insurance rather than safety = MOT