Quick MOT question - can drive after fail if old cert still in date?

liam8282

A failed mot could technically override a valid mot, because as a previous poster said, you cannot legally drive an unroadworthy car.

It would depend on what the mot failure is for and if the car was deemed to be unroadworthy.

Kilty_2

Would a failure on parking brake efficiency due to a seized rear caliper render the car dangerous and unroadworthy?

Drove my old car for weeks when it failed for that whilst waiting to get it fixed. (yet the guy who "fixed" it actually damaged the caliper, and fluid started leaking from it, but it passed the retest :rotfl:)

babyshoes

Don't you usually have 10 days to take it for a re-test? I assumed you would be able to drive it around within that time to take it away for repairs! If the failure wasn't something dire, I doubt it would be a huge problem.

Silk

the182guy wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the back brake shoes need doing and it will fail, so can the car legally be driven over the weekend with a fail, but the old certificate still in date?

Just to take away some of the confusion with all this.

Yes the car can be legally driven as the old MOT is still in force.

However if the tester was to issue a red ticket ie he deemed the car to be unsafe to drive that would overide the previous mot and you would not be allowed to drive the car away.

Kilty_2

Silk wrote: »

However if the tester was to issue a red ticket ie he deemed the car to be unsafe to drive that would overide the previous mot and you would not be allowed to drive the car away.

Got any proof of this? What's the document formally called that is issued in this case?

vaio

Silk wrote: »

Just to take away some of the confusion with all this.

Yes the car can be legally driven as the old MOT is still in force.

However if the tester was to issue a red ticket ie he deemed the car to be unsafe to drive that would overide the previous mot and you would not be allowed to drive the car away.

Take away the confusion? I don't see how as just about all of your post is wrong

Whilst an old MOT doesn't get cancelled when the car fails and so can still cover you for the "cars must have mot" law almost every thing you can fail an MOT on will also render it un-roadworthy and therefore illegal to drive on the road.

Also, MOT testers have no power to prevent you driving away no matter how dangerous the car, all they can do is advise

And finally, there is no form an MOT tester (or anyone else) can use to revoke or overide a legally issued MOT before its normal expiry date

gordikin

There's some seriously wrong advice being given on here. A 'red ticket'! What is that! Anyone who thinks a garage can invalidate a current MOT...please show me proof!...and I don't mean my sisters cousins dad's a cleaner in a garage and says it's so!

Silk

As far as I'm aware it's called a "prohibition notice" these days

The "red ticket" was in the good old days

When the car is tested it's linked to the computer and theres a box to tick which says that it is deemed to be unfit for the road and the examiner has to inform the owner of this and draw his attention to it.

Obviously he can not do anything physical to stop the customer driving off in the car but the the prohibition notice would overide an existing mot

http://mot-test.co.uk/prohib.htm

Silk

vaio wrote: »

Whilst an old MOT doesn't get cancelled when the car fails and so can still cover you for the "cars must have mot" law almost every thing you can fail an MOT on will also render it un-roadworthy and therefore illegal to drive on the road.

???
It's down to what the examiner considers to making the minimum requirements of safety.
ie if it fails on something like torn wiper blades or a reversing light not working it's hardly going to be considered too dangerous for the road but if the chassis has rotted away to nothing or theres no brakes etc it would be condsidered a case for a notice

Originally Posted by vaio
Also, MOT testers have no power to prevent you driving away no matter how dangerous the car, all they can do is advise

Quite agree but it wouldn't be legal for him to drive though

Originally Posted by vaio
And finally, there is no form an MOT tester (or anyone else) can use to revoke or overide a legally issued MOT before its normal expiry date

See roadworthiness prohibition and PG9's examiners can issue them and trained police officers can issue them too.

gordikin

Where does it say anywhere in your link that a prohibition notice overides a current MOT?