I am a bad bad motorist...8-(

ManchesterBudo

Hi Guys,

First time Ive posted and its a terrible confession (please done hate me! )

My tax, insurance AND mot have all lapsed.

I didnt realise (I moved in with my girlfriend a few months ago and didnt sort out having my post forwarded till the other day) its lapsed literally months ago.

Where do I start?!

Ive tried ringing a garage for MOT - shut till tomorrow.
Ive tried ringing my insurance - shut till tomorrow.
and tried renewing my tax online but it wont let me as I now realise I need to produce MOT & insurance details.

Ive got work tomorrow, guess Im on the train & I'l ring from there but WHERE DO IS START???

Any and all help gratefully, gratefully, gratefully recieved!

ukmike

1st arrange insurance,then book MOT,then tax it,that's the only order to do it.

Inactive

Gandalfthesecond wrote: »

Make sure the car is not on a road or in a public place.

Beat me to it..

muckybutt

Make sure you have a confirmed booking for the MOT that way if you are stopped then you can definately say you are taking it to an MOT station.

Make sure you have insurance first though before going anywhere near a public higway.

stevemcol

You should be able to sort your insurance today online. Confused/Money supermarket etc.

oldone_2

Your girl friend must be some spectacular woman if moving in with her made you forget the important things in life like your car.

Hintza

Gandalfthesecond wrote: »

Make sure the car is not on a road or in a public place.

Make sure you don't get caught with the car on a public road :cool:

wr1ght

your very lucky not to have had a copper with anpr behind you

only_mee

Or not passed a pole mounted ANPR camera.

Stephen_Leak

When you do get everything re-arranged, set up a "Tart Alert" for each of them on here. It will send you a reminder by e-mail and/or text message 6 weeks before the renewal date. It was originally designed for financial reminders, but it works for all sorts of things. And it's free.

ManchesterBudo

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ukmike, Gandalf, Inactive, muckybutt, stevemcol, oldone, Hintza, wr1ght, only_mee, Stephen - You're all superstars, thank you SO much for your advice!

I rang about the MOT as soon as I got to work and got one booked for tomorrow morning. Spent an hour this avo ringing round trying to get an insurance deal - ended up going with Hastings. That'll go live tomorrow at 12 tonight.

Thank you again so much for all the advice. :beer:

Err.....I heard about.. a guy.. who was in the same position as I was. He was stupid enough to drive to work in the morning. After driving for several months and getting away with it he thought he'd risk it just one last time so that he got to work on time.
So he was really nervous but kept telling himself that it was just gonna be this once and that he'd been driving this way for the last 2 months so to calm down, drive carefully and get everything sorted as soon as absolutely possible once he got to work.
Maybe its just sods law but this is the gods honest truth - as he climbed the slip road to get on the short motorway journey to work he looked in his wing mirror and HONESTLY there was a police 4x4!!!

He absolutely cacked himself, slowed down and somehow managed to end up joining the motorway right NEXT to the cops.
They slowly crept away ahead as he drove at 65mph, heart pounding in his chest.

Stupid stupid stupid man.
He wont be doing it again.
He really really wont be doing it again.