Receipt style MOT certificate and travel in Europe

blueyellowred

Has anyone been stopped by continental Police and had problems with new style MOT certificate?
We travel through Europe every summer and been stopped in most of the countries with thorough document checks in some instances or only glance at driving license in others. The deeper East you go the more they look into your papers.
Would like to know before traveling in June how much trouble new MOT will cause us
Thanks

bengalknights

Shouldnt cause any as its no longer a certificate due to being published online.

blueyellowred

bengalknights wrote: »

Shouldnt cause any as its no longer a certificate due to being published online.

But will continental Police have access to online records? They scrutinized one with watermarks like it was fake £50 note - I wonder what reaction will be to plain A4 that could be done by 5 year old with PC and any old printer
I think we will just pretend that we only speak English - some rural ones just wave you off on the sight of English driving license and any papers in English

colino

I really wouldn't be concerned with our A4 MOTs being a problem, they'll have seen thousands of them by now.
I repossessed a car from Switzerland (don't ask) armed with no more than the fax from Interpol telling me what rural garage it had been taken to. Like most of these things, bright cheery confidence works better on check points than unintelligible, foreign paperwork.
In fact our respective boys in blue, while always appearing on top, aren't always on the ball. Wasn't it on QI that a rash of traffic offences throughout Ireland by one rogue driver was traced back to the Police laboriously copying the Polish for "Drivers Name" and recording that as the drivers name?

paddedjohn

Ive travelled many, many thousands of miles throughout europe and never had a problem, infact ive never been asked for my mot cert before.

blueyellowred

paddedjohn wrote: »

Ive travelled many, many thousands of miles throughout europe and never had a problem, infact ive never been asked for my mot cert before.

Try going East from German border It is compulsory to carry driving license, passport, insurance cert, car documents(which is equivalent of our logbook married to MOT cert) - and if there are any big events like football championships borders will be closed again.
Baltic countries are beautiful but cops are so corrupt they would make Itallians look like amateurs. And if you go even further into Russia...
I should really write a book about our travels

iainscomputer

Ive driven & motorcycled in Eastern Europe, Poland, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia as well as a trip down to Gambia through Morrocco, Senegal & Mauritania. Ive had to show Reg Doc, Drivers License & Passport on numerous occasions, but had never had to show the MOT cert. Good job too as the trip to Gambia we didnt have one & we sent the tax for a refund at Dover!!!:)

iainscomputer

Its actually compulsory to carry all your documents anywhere abroad when driving. Can cause problems if you dont have them even in France.

interstellaflyer

There should be no problem for the authorities in any European country viewing the test history online, all that's needed is registration No. and V5 Ref No. took me 30 seconds to view mine.

useless_git_requires_wife

I've driven to Romania, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Moldova, etc many times.

The MOT means nothing. Insurance and owner's document is what they are looking for.

Make sure that you are aware of the local road tax 'vignette' stickers that you might need in various countries.....this is the favourite way for local traffic cops to fine you as you drive through some countries, or for border cops to fine you as you leave. You can usually buy them in the first petrol station over the border.

There are many scams operating in and around petrol stations and foreign-registered cars are the main target.......beware. I strongly advise that you insist on filling up yourself as one of the classic scams is the attendant fills up, the cashier zeros the meter so that you can't check how much has been delivered and they scan through a couple of packets of fags or whatever which is added to your bill (you think you're just paying for the petrol)....they then pocket the fags. Seen it a few times in Austria and Hungary in particular.