Can i drive a car home without an MOT

Keith

Phone a garage near your home, ask for an MOT slot, get them to note the reg as it has no ticket. Then drive it home, phone the garage and cancel as the car has broken down.

This way you are legal. If stopped, you can tell the officer you are enroute to the mot.

Hammyman

continualdiamond wrote: »

I would have to tow it home as i have that on my licence, my OH doesn't, he didn't pass his test until 02, where as i got mine in 99.

I think you're stuffed. I'm sure the cutoff date for a trailer >750kg was 1997.

Hammyman

Keith wrote: »

Phone a garage near your home, ask for an MOT slot, get them to note the reg as it has no ticket. Then drive it home, phone the garage and cancel as the car has broken down.

This way you are legal. If stopped, you can tell the officer you are enroute to the mot.

However if the officer then checks and finds out you didn't go, you're in for "perverting the course of justice" which is a proper criminal offence.

jblack_2

If the car is being given away then is it even likely to pass an MOT?

Inactive

Safest bet is to pay a company with a small transporter to collect/deliver the car for you, park it off road until an MOT has been obtained.

skiddlydiddly

Personally I'd ask the owner if its likely to need any work for the mot.If it didn't or it wasn't much, I'd book an MOT somewhere close by and have it done.If it fails I'd ask the garage to fix it for me, assuming its not going to cost too much.

I'm in the lucky position where I have a reliable MOT station about a mile away who can usually start work on any problems the same day and doesn't rip me off.

Harry_Flashman

cajef wrote: »

There must be thousands of cars running around on the roads with no MOT, either expired or people have just forgotten they have run out, as you say it is taxed and providing you have insurance the chances of being stopped would be pretty slim, depending on the distance if you want to risk driving it then that is your choice, some people would others may not.

Only trouble with that is - if it doesn't have an MoT, the insurance is invalid.

It's your choice, but you could find yourself in a whole world of pain if some jobsworth traffic cop stops you.

dacouch

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

Only trouble with that is - if it doesn't have an MoT, the insurance is invalid.

It's your choice, but you could find yourself in a whole world of pain if some jobsworth traffic cop stops you.

Not having a valid MOT does not necessarily invalidate a motor insurance

custardy

OP,what exactly are you planning to do with it?
if you are gonig to fix it up and put it on the road then fire it in for an MOT on the way
if you are going to break it then phone round for prices for the whole car
i got over £200 for my old no T&T vec that was on the drive

Harry_Flashman

dacouch wrote: »

Not having a valid MOT does not necessarily invalidate a motor insurance

Well, it's certainly in my T&Cs.